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The New York Times reports:
“Mami!” the children’s voices cry out, between sobs. “Papá!” A recording of immigrant children calling out desperately for their parents after being separated from them by United States immigration authorities was released on Monday by the investigative news site ProPublica. The recording, nearly eight minutes in length, added disturbing and intimate notes to the debate over the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when families are detained at the border.
At one point, a child identified in the article as a 6-year-old Salvadoran girl is heard asking someone to call her aunt. “My mommy says that I’ll go with my aunt,” she says in Spanish. “And that she’ll come to pick me up there as quickly as possible.” At another point, a voice belonging to a man identified by ProPublica as a Border Patrol agent speaks over the crying children. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” the man says. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Civil rights attorney Jennifer Harbury says she obtained audio of children who were reportedly held in a CBP detention facility and can be heard crying for their parents. https://t.co/iUbt8quXyA – @MSNBC
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2018
BREAKING: New audio of immigrant children crying and begging for their parents, right after they’ve been separated. This is absolutely heartbreaking, but must be shared with the world. It was obtained from inside one of Trump’s child prisons by @ProPublica. #KeepFamiliesTogether pic.twitter.com/wAwDCi0uHf
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 18, 2018
Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help.
A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Listen to the full audio here: https://t.co/pLg65q3O41
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 18, 2018
As the @ProPublica audio of crying migrant children started, my dogs looked around urgently, trying to find the children in need of comfort. That’s the instinct of fucking dogs, but not of the president. ? pic.twitter.com/WeJ3jmTQVc
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 18, 2018
While homeland security’s Kirstjen Nielsen defended the separation of children from their parents at the border, someone in the back of the briefing room played audio of children crying. I looked back to see where the sound was coming from – it was very disturbing. pic.twitter.com/snd1f4Zbw9
— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) June 18, 2018
The President’s son likes a tweet about how crying children who’ve been separated from their parents are actually crisis actors. https://t.co/RjqyOFwONj
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 18, 2018
Listening to this recording of children crying for their parents as immigration agents make jokes is pure agony. But you must listen. U have to understand the fundamental evil that has consumed America. And dont forget – evangelicals still stand with this https://t.co/YGoC4bCWmn
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 18, 2018
You can hear children who were separated from their parents sobbing and crying. “We have an orchestra here,” a border patrol agent jokes. “What we’re missing is a conductor.” https://t.co/C0qxoCYMbM
— Travis Mannon (@TravisMannon) June 18, 2018