Author examines family migration, separation

The author of a new book on family separation and migration during the first Trump administration spoke with dozens of families and children from Latin America who spent months apart due to U.S. immigration policies. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Gabrielle Oliveira, author of “Now We Are Here — Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life” spoke with South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez about how she located the 16 families and 30 children that she followed and documented from 2018 through 2021 after they crossed the U.S. border. The families came from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and the children ranged in ages from four months to 18. Oliveira says their parents often expressed guilt over putting their children through arduous journeys north to cross the border into the United States. Some waited for months south of the border under the Migrant Protection Protocols policy, also known as remain in Mexico, which President Donald Trump implemented during his first term.