Question

Surf to the “Frontline” website via the following link. Either watch the documentary, "Separated: Children at the Border," or read the transcript on the same page.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/separated-children-at-the-border/

a)What is the difference between the apprehensions and deportations of families with children between the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration, according to the documentary?” Examine the consequences.

b)Those seeking asylum from persecution and violence have a legal right to enter the U.S. Why are so many turned away?

Answer 1

In Obama administration , established family detention center that kerp family together while their cases processed .The Obama whitehouse has policy of releasing families through a program called alternative detention still with their parents.

But trump administration have policy of separating families at border and adopted zero tolerance policy for illigal border crossing.That included procecuting parents with their children as well as people who subsequently attempted to request aslyum.Dozons of parents are split from their children each day.The childern labled unaccompanied minors or sent to Goverment custody or foster care, The parents are labelled are criminal and sents jail.

B. Official Annunciation House Saud that they have been hearing stories for weeks about asylum seekers being turned away at international bridge , before they can reach the port.The vast majority of central american applicant are denied asylum protection in the end.but once they are living and working in the United State , they often disregard court order to leave the country and remain illigaly. That is the loophole , the trup administration says it is seeking to close by tighting aslyum rules.