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Mental health pros on family separation: Some damage can never be undone | Opinion

We implore state and local law enforcement to step in immediately to secure a legal injunction requiring reunification of currently separated families and proper evaluation and treatment of those in need.

Migrant children walk outside at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children a former Job Corps site that now houses them, on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Homestead, Fla.
Migrant children walk outside at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children a former Job Corps site that now houses them, on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Homestead, Fla.Read moreBRYNN ANDERSON / AP Photographer
    by Lisa Goldstein, Greg Sazima, Dana L. Sinopoli, For the Inquirer
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The United States of America, at the direction of our president, has been abusing children. 

The policy of separating children from their parents and warehousing them without parental contact was, and is, a criminal act with tragic consequences. 

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