The Trump administration created a real-life Sophie's Choice at the border
—but Sofi’s story hits a new kind of low. There’s an obvious, eerie connection with Sofi’s situation and the Holocaust movie, where Meryl Streep’s character must decide which one of her two children lives—although thankfully, the real-life Sofi’s case is not so overtly ghoulish. Her story
shows how agents are not only reckless with the physical safety of families bearing the brunt of their policies, but also willing to place children under intense psychological harm. It’s just one example ofThankfully, this story has a happy ending for now: after doctors intervened on their behalf, the family was able to stay together in the U.S. But the agents who interacted with her family reacted to her distress while initially making a decision with extreme callousness.
“The border patrol, according to the family, told Sofi, ‘Why are you crying, you told you picked your mother.’”If nothing else, it’s just one of the many kinds of cruelty border patrol agents have likely seen under their watch.
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