With all the Kavanaugh drama happening, and the terrifying likelihood that the judiciary will be the third branch of government to fall into conservative Republican hands by ill-gotten means, it's easy to forget about the thousands of immigrant children living under lock and key in our nation.
DefineAmerican.com's creator, Jose Antonio Vargas has not forgotten this - he hasn't the luxury, as he is himself an undocumented citizen living in the U.S. Joy Reid discussed his new book about his own experience being separated from his mother in order to travel to the U.S.
REID: And you and I had a great conversation about this book not too long ago in Brooklyn. And I asked you to read a passage which is probably my favorite passage in the book because it is so poignant as to what the separation of a mother and the child really feels like. And I'm going to read a little bit of it now, and it's from the chapter called "Gamblers." It says, "After handing me a brown jacket with a made in the USA label on its collar, a Christmas gift from her parents in California, the grandparents I would soon be living with, my mom said matter-of-factly (and I'm probably going to mangle this) 'Baka malaming doon.' ('It might be cold there.') It was the last thing I remember her saying." That parting from your mom is so poignant and searing in the book and I think that people forget that there is a lot of pain involved in a parent separating from their child and a child being separated in this way.
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