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The recording, nearly eight minutes in length, added disturbing and intimate notes to the debate over the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when families are detained at the border.
ProPublica said in an article accompanying the audio clip that it was recorded last week inside a US Customs and Border Protection detention centre. Ten Central American children who were separated from their parents by immigration authorities are heard in the clip, along with some adults.
At one point, a child identified in the article as a 6-year-old Salvadoran girl is heard asking someone to call her aunt. “My mommy says that I’ll go with my aunt,” she says in Spanish. “And that she’ll come to pick me up there as quickly as possible.”
At another point, a voice belonging to a man identified by ProPublica as a Border Patrol agent speaks over the crying children. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” the man says. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
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