Separated, deported and stressed - Continuing Coverage Entry

When President Donald Trump launched a mass deportation campaign early last year and focused on Chicago during the fall, our newsroom covered the efforts from every angle. But we had one priority: the campaign’s effects on everyday people, their families and their communities. We have selected 2 audio stories in which our reporters revealed in deeply human ways the campaign’s personal toll. They include a story about a family fearful they would be separated from their newborn baby, struggling through the difficult decisions of what to do in order to keep their family together. Another follows a family already separated, tracking the father’s experience as he’s transferred from one detention center to another across the United States while his family, left behind in Chicago, struggles to figure out what to do about their future.