Jen’s Reviews > Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis > Status Update

“… lawyers from the Justice Department acted overwhelmed by the task of finding all the separated families under a tight deadline. Behind the scenes, however, officers at ICE were trying to pick off parents before the judge could force the government to reunite them with their children.”

“Politics is a form of selective amnesia; the people who survive it are our only insurance against forgetting.”