In “Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”, Jonathan Blitzer for the New Yorker tells us the real life story of a victim of President Trump’s family separation policy:  “Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.”

It is well worth a read.

UPDATE (Feb. 1):  For Fernanda Santos take on the Blitzer article and the state of the U.S. immigration system in The Atlantic, click here.  She makes a point well worth highlighting:

“To answer the question of why so many children—why so many people, period—continue to risk so much to leave their countries and come to a place not only that is foreign to them, but where they may well be unwelcome, demands a confrontation with the recent past. What I saw then—and what we’re seeing today on the southern border and in cities including New York, where more than 100,000 migrants arrived in the past year—are reverberations of a long, violent history that implicates the United States for its meddling in Central America. This is the story that Jonathan Blitzer painstakingly documents in his new book, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. In the interest of fending off the advance of communism during the Cold War, the United States supplied arms, trained soldiers, and dispatched its own covert troops to support merciless government repression in the region, creating a chain reaction of sorts that is still being felt today.  “

KJ