A deeply reported\, newsbreaking account t he humanitarian crisis of our time by the journalist who has been at the c enter of the story: MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff\, winner of the 201 9 Walter Cronkite Award\, offers a chilling expose of the human cost of th e Trump administration's border and immigration policies"-- Provided by pu blisher.
\nIn June 2018\, Donald Trump's most notorious decision as president--the systematic separation of thousands of desperate migrant fam ilies at the US-Mexico border--had secretly been in effect for months befo re most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetr ated by their own government. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalis ts to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His influential series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy and ea rned Soboroff the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Broadcast Jou rnalism and\, with his colleagues\, the 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast J ournalism. Soboroff has spent the past two years reporting the many strand s of this complex narrative\, developing sources from within the Trump adm inistration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the dramatic odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala\, where their lives were threatened by narcos\, to seek asylum at the U.S. border\, wher e they were separated--the son ending up in Texas\, and the father thousan ds of miles away\, in the Mojave desert of central California. And he join s the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy\, and who worked on the g round to reunite parents with children.
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