Young Center Policy Director Jennifer Nagda on How The Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy Is Playing Out
How The Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy Is Playing Out
KIRSTJEN NIELSEN: Operationally, what that means is we will have to separate your family. That's no different than what we do every day in every part of the United States when an adult of a family commits a crime.
KELLY: Well, we wanted to hear how this practice is playing out, so we reached out to the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. That's at the University of Chicago Law School. And Jennifer Nagda is policy director for the Young Center. She joins us now. Welcome.
JENNIFER NAGDA: Thank you for having me.
KELLY: Let me start by making clear what stake you have there at the Young Center. You help advocate for children who are in shelters around the country. Is that right?
NAGDA: We do. Under a law that was passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed by a Republican president, we are appointed as the independent child advocate for particularly vulnerable children, unaccompanied children, typically those children who arrive at the border by themselves and are placed in government custody. Our role is to identify and advocate for their best interests with respect to all of the decisions that are made in their case.
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