> I believe that just because you're an immigrant doesn't automatically make you a criminal. > SMITH: The president says that the people that are coming in can be criminals, they can be very bad people. Please, God, don't let them take my child." They saw other parents' children taken away from them.Īnd they would be praying, "Please, not my child. "Sister, what's happening to the children?" (conversing in Spanish) > They're concerned. I asked her about the impact of Trump's separation policy on the families she had seen at her shelter. (translator): (Maritza speaking): (baby crying in background) > SMITH: This shelter was founded in 2014 by Sister Norma Pimentel. > SMITH: In the meantime, Maritza wears an ankle bracelet that allows the government to track her movements. > SMITH: The day I met Maritza happened to be the same day President Trump issued his executive order halting more separations.įamilies would be allowed to remain together while their asylum claims were considered. (speaking Spanish): > SMITH: Were you aware of the risks of being separated from your child when you came? So tell us your story about why you came at this time? They crossed the border at a time when many families were being separated. (people talking in background) I met them at this shelter in McAllen, Texas, Maritza Amaya and her nine-month-old son Wilfredo. > SMITH: After several hours of wandering in the hot sun looking for help, they found some Border Patrol agents and asked for asylum.Īfter 24 hours in a holding cell, they were released. > Yeah, but they've been trying all day to. > SMITH: In mid-June, a young woman and her son from El Salvador took a raft across the Rio Grande into southern Texas. Minors come up north but then went south. > These two are probably the guides for a larger group. The number of Border Patrol agents has doubled to some 20,000. (radio chatter) Since 9/11, security is up. Where there are gaps, aerostat blimps surveil from above. Nearly 700 of them have a wall or a fence. (dogs barking) (clanging) ♪ ♪ > SMITH: The border spans over 1,900 miles. > NARRATOR: Tonight, "Separated: Children at the Border." > There's a very high likelihood a lot of these parents are never going to see their kids again. > NARRATOR: And the impact on children and families. I think on the right, your enforcement is never strong enough, and on the left, you're never being humanitarian enough. The policy decisions through two presidencies. > NARRATOR: Tonight on "Frontline," correspondent Martin Smith with an investigation that reaches from Central America to Washington, DC. > NARRATOR: Under pressure, the president reversed course. > I've seen a lot of terrible things in my 34 years, but we have to address the border. > MARTIN SMITH: How can you not condemn that? > NARRATOR: One year later, it shocked the world. While everyone's waiting to see whether they're going to enact a policy, they were doing it anyway. > There were hundreds and hundreds of little children who had been taken from their parents. ♪ >here are 58 countries th are starting to plug in to china's vision of artificial intelligence.♪ ♪ > NARRATOR: In the summer of 2017, the Trump administration quietly began a controversial program. and it'll cost you $300 million, and we'll build a ton of ameras, and we'll build y kind of, you know, a main center where you have police who cane watch thmeras." and that's going in all over the world already. and what they do is, they sell a, m, sell some other stuffd they say, "you know, by the wayh we can give you e camera systems and, for your emergency response. you know, you see it in cambodia, you see it in ecdor, you see it in venezuela. stuff yet, but, you know, lower- level, camera-based, you know, manual sort of observation-type things all over. but i can tell you that when you see it, and you deliver thisīe help "maintaining social stability." > as china cos into these countries and provides these loans, what you end up with is chinese technology being sold and built out by, you know, by chinese companies in theseie we've started to see it already in terms of surveillance systems. and i can tell you that it's all ras, it's all income class that you might think someone might be from. and please, tell, tell all theul workers how gratef these families will be. > let them know merry christmas behalf of us here at th local, okay? > absolutely, you guys are just, just amazing, thank you. > yes, well, with the kids home from school, the families have goree meals a day that the to put on the table. > i mean, that is going to go a long ways, right? i mean, that'll really help that family out during thlidays. these were left over from our suggestion drive that we did, and we're going to give them each two.is > that awesome. > this is something we're gonna do for you guys. and so that is common from the canadian border to the gulf of mexico in the middle swath of the united states.
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