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Viewfinder: The One-Year Anniversary of the Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: May 8, 2019
Updated on: May 7, 2019

To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy, the group Families Belong Together set up a life-sized cage depicting child separation at the United States–Mexico border on Capitol Hill on May 7th, 2019, in Washington, D.C. — *To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy,* *the* *group Families Belong Together set up* a life-sized cage *depicting child separation at the United States–Mexico border* on Capitol Hill on May 7th, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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