Sarah Stillman at The New Yorker tells the story of Pedro, an eight-year-old from Guatemala, whose father was separated from him last July. After his father was taken away, Pedro was left with immigration officers who could not communicate with him. “No immigration agents at the scene spoke Acateco, which is the child’s language,” Stillman writes.

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