What It Takes To Reunify Immigrant Families

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 3, 2018

Mario Russell runs the immigration service arm for the Catholic Charities of New York's Catholic Charities and is working to reunify immigrant families who have been separated at the border because of the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy.  Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, talks about the work to reunify one family where the mother had been in detention in Arizona while her children were placed in foster care in New York.

 

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