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In ‘Separated,’ Oscar Winner Errol Morris Takes On Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy That Ripped Apart Migrant Families – Venice Film Festival
Errol Morris takes on the Trump administration's "family separation" immigration policy in 'Separated,' premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
The documentary is based on the book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, written by NBC News Political and National correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who spent years covering immigration and the border during the Trump presidency. “And just to emphasize, the American Academy of Pediatrics called it ‘government sanctioned child abuse’ and Physicians for Human Rights, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization, said it met the UN definition of torture. Its whole purpose, Separated argues, was to create a situation so devastating and horrifying for migrant families – seeing their children seized from them – that word would get back to Central America and other points of origin of migration, and the result would be a reduction in attempts to cross into the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, was told by government lawyers that the policy might violate the U.S. Constitution, but she signed off anyway.
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