Separated

"In June 2018, Donald Trump's . . . decision as president--the systematic separation of thousands of . . . migrant families at the US-Mexico border--had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the . . . inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His . . . series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy. [He] has spent the past two years reporting the many strands of this . . . narrative, developing sources from within the Trump administration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the . . . odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to seek asylum at the U.S. border, where they were separated"--Provided by publisher.