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Wow, what a good find. This will indeed provide good follow-up. I have read only the first chapter so far but will slowly go through it all. There is a lot to cover. I am user Gandydancer so have been with this article from its very beginning and rambling through month after month. And it does ramble, but trying to do cut-backs is so hard when when one thinks of those little kids wailing and crying out "papa" on that tape--it makes every word seem important... Reading farther back into the history of this practice in this Atlantic article reminds me that this WP article while now seemingly old remains an important part of U.S. politics and even what's going on around the world today. For now, Gandy Sectionworker (talk) 18:19, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I quickly lost my limits on Atlantic access and will need to find interviews, etc.--which should not be a problem. She was on PBS last night and several talk shows lately. This is one of the longest articles they've ever done and they tend to do pretty long ones. Rather than trying to tuck this in here and there I'm going to add it at the end in a 2022 update. Since so few people read or work on this article I'm going to feel free to add what I find a little at a time rather than feel that I need to have it all worked out before I add stuff. Gandy, Sectionworker (talk) 21:35, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Although we will probably never know exactly how many children were ruthlessly removed from their families with no plan to reunited them and completely inadequate record-keeping in place, the above cited NY Magazine article states:
Out of more than 5,000 children separated from their parents by the Trump administration, as many as 2,000 still haven’t been reunited. These figures are estimates at best; three years into a new presidency, it appears likely the U.S. government will never be able to provide a thorough accounting of the policy’s victims. The damage grows with every year that passes: Separated parents have been murdered after being deported, and others have vanished during another attempt to cross the border. [my emphasis]
It further states that an outreach website had been set up where families not previously recorded in the trump totals cropped up.
Given that this was a first Trump administration policy, the title should be "First Trump administration family separation policy," given that this policy did not carry over to the second Trump administration. NesserWiki (talk) 06:31, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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