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Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Released Friday, 25th January 2019
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Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Yoka Verdoner & The Child Separations

Friday, 25th January 2019
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Yoka Verdoner was separated from her parents when she was only 8 years old. Now 84, her life story is a window into the trauma that has been inflicted on so many migrant children separated from their parents at the southern border of the U.S. I spoke with Yoka over the summer, at the height of those separations, after she'd published a piece in The Guardian that was widely shared. Her story has urgency again, following last week's news that the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" policy has led to the separation of many more children than we believed – perhaps thousands more. This is Yoka's journey from her childhood in The Netherlands to the United States and the trauma that follows her to this day.

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