A year before the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their families at the border in a mere five-week period, a ninth-grader in McAllen, Texas, was taken from his mother.
Though the Trump administration outwardly is maintaining that it is continuing its "zero-tolerance" border policy, email traffic obtained by CNN shows that the policy has effectively been curtailed for now -- the latest sign of confusion and disarray over how to implement an executive order designed to halt family separations at the border.
"Can you play it?" Cindy Madrid asked. In the audio recording, children can be heard sobbing desperately after being separated from their parents at the border -- and among them is Madrid's six-year-old daughter.
The Trump administration continues to reverse course on its messaging surrounding highly controversial US immigration policies following days of significant pushback.
