Family separation, a practice called illegal by the United Nations, one which, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, inflicts deep life-long trauma, a policy so heinous that the sound of a weeping child secretly recorded in a detention facility moved even some of the most hardline anti-immigrant Americans.
Escobar condemns the family separation policy as inhumane and traumatic.
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