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Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel

  • Written by Sarah Bilston, Associate Professor of English, Trinity College
Almost 1,500 immigrant boys, aged 10 to 17, were separated from their parents and brought to stay at Casa Padre in Brownsville, TexasDepartment of Health and Human Services

The news has been full these past few weeks of disturbing stories from the nation’s borders. The Trump administration has separated immigrant children from their parents...

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