Behind the Reporting: ProPublica's "Zero Tolerance"

Shorenstein Center Media and Politics Podcast by Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy

Mar 11, 201913:15News & Politics

ProPublica obtained and published a secret recording from inside a border patrol detention center that captured the sounds of children, recently separated from their families at the Mexican border, sobbing and begging fo...

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