How one of Trump’s harshest policies started out under the radar

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  Today,

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  how the US Government separated migrant families

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  and how it could happen again.

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  In mid-2017,

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  the Trump administration began quietly separating children

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  from their parents at the US Mexico border.

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  It would be a full year

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  before administration officials formally acknowledged the practice

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  as part of their zero tolerance policy,

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  with many calling it a deterrent against illegal immigration.

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  It became one of the most controversial policies

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  in modern American history.

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  New images released by Customs

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  and Border Protection show the living conditions for people being held

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  at a Border Patrol facility in South Texas.

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  Children can be seen in steel cages.

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  Sleeping on mattresses, on the floor with.

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  Foil sheets as blankets.

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