Background and topic

In April of 2018, the Trump Administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy for migrants entering the United States illegally. As a result of this policy, nearly 3,000 children traveling across the border were separated from their parents. It later came out that ICE and Customs and Border Patrol willfully failed to record proper data to reunite the families it had separated, meanwhile placing the children with outside sponsors. We were both horrified and fascinated by the lack of data collected on the children and their families, many of them fleeing violence and poverty, that might be used to reunite them. This seemed especially egregious to us when we discovered that officials had known that their systems were not equipped to reunite families for over six months before the zero tolerance policy went into effect.

We initially gathered data on several aspects of the family separation policy: parents deported without their children, children who the government had lost track of once they had been separated from their parents, and the mental health impact of the policies.

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