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Separated | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
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3/14/2025
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family | dG1fXzlrMDhqeWtrcFU
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Separation from your parent is a profoundly traumatizing event.
00:06
With systematic separation of children from parents,
00:11
officially, it wasn't happening.
00:14
But it was happening.
00:16
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00:19
You should tell me how you got involved in all of this.
00:22
Define all this.
00:25
Their version of stopping people from coming into the country
00:28
was taking children away from their parents
00:31
so that people wouldn't come.
00:33
Our field staff started to notice very young kids,
00:37
tender age, anyone below five.
00:40
That's kind of unusual, right?
00:42
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00:46
It was a very difficult time.
00:49
That's kind of unusual, right?
00:51
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00:54
What Zero Tolerance did was turn their helpers
00:59
into their worst nightmare.
01:01
Freeze! Freeze!
01:03
Don't move! Don't move!
01:05
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01:12
So if you thought the child was endangered,
01:15
that's the only circumstance to which you would separate.
01:18
Can't imagine doing it otherwise.
01:20
The government thought that showing the world separations
01:24
through the eyes of people like me,
01:26
they would scare the s*** out of people
01:28
that were attempting to come from coming.
01:30
Is that the right strategy?
01:31
If you're part of a family and you break the law,
01:33
you will be incarcerated.
01:35
I've honestly never seen anything like that.
01:37
There are about 1,500 kids in there.
01:40
You're a parent.
01:42
Don't you have any empathy for what they go through?
01:45
We now know this was right from the get-go.
01:47
Someone must have been planning this.
01:49
A federal judge says the government needs to reunite
01:51
young immigrant children with their parents.
01:53
We had 14 days to reunify all of the children under five.
01:57
Their assessment form in the system
01:59
doesn't have that much information.
02:01
What's your mom's name? Mom.
02:03
Like every mom, their name is Mom.
02:05
Do I call this child abuse?
02:07
Do I call it torture?
02:09
Separation was the purpose.
02:12
Prosecution was the tool.
02:15
It's not over.
02:17
Five years later, we are still trying to reunite
02:19
up to 1,000 children.
02:23
There is really nothing to stop it.
02:25
This is a new era.
02:28
It troubles me profoundly
02:32
that it could happen again.
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