One of the greatest tragedies of the Trump Administration was separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. southern border. As of late 2020, court filings indicated that some 545 migrant children are somewhere in the U.S. but cannot be located. This all happened with the implementation of President Trump's zero-tolerance policy from 2017 to 2018. "Separated: Inside an American Tragedy" takes us through the reasons behind the procedures, how they were implemented, and the failings. Author Jacob Soboroff offers a view based on his reporting for NBC News and MSNBC. Much of his reporting is shocking and heartbreaking. It is hard to believe that any American President or his administration could be so callous. It is equally hard to believe that the U.S. Congress and others have not echoed Soboroff's reporting of what has happened to the children? This is a real blemish on American society.The following excerpts are among the most telling aspects of the author's reporting:"When I closed my notebook on that day in South Texas, I walked outside and again detailed on national T.V. what I saw "people in here are locked up in cages, that would look like animal kennels. I don't know any other way to describe it, period."Since the summer of 2017, The Trump Administration has taken at least 5556 kids from their parents. But still today, nobody knows for sure exactly how many families have been separated.In order to prove separations were happening for no other reason than crossing the border illegally, the government would need to keep track of all separations. On that front, White's briefer did not have good news. The government was separating children and parents and losing track of who they were and where they went."We will finally secure this border so that we can give the American people the safety and peace of mind that they deserve." (Attorney General Jeff) Sessions said. "If you don't want your child to be separated sessions declared, then don't bring them across the border illegally."Parents and UIC's (Unaccompanied alien children) the government lingo referring to kids who arrived in the United States by themselves or now were alone because they were taken from their parents and rendered unaccompanied. And now they were not able to find each other once being separated.We were warned not to speak with any of the children. And with that, the door opened into the cavernous facility. All I could see were young boys everywhere I looked. I jotted down what I saw and what I was thinking in my spiral notebook while my head was on a swivel I didn't look down at the notebook as I wrote, and my handwriting suffered for it. If the boys weren't sitting in chairs along walls waiting together in a room or sitting at cafeteria-style tables, they were in line to eat. In their hands were trays holding Oreo cookies, applesauce, jello, chicken, and mashed potatoes. I was walking side by side with the lawyer for the facility. When I expressed amazement at what I was seeing, without skipping a beat, she told me and another reporter standing near her "to smile at the kids because they feel like animals in a cage being looked at." I think she realized how truthful she had been because she immediately said she didn't want that comment to be on the record, which of course, is not how that worksOn the same day I spent hours broadcasting from outside Casa Padre, breaking the news that the federal government was setting up the tent camp for migrant children, attorney general Jeff Sessions used the Bible to justify separating children. He aimed to push back on one of the many critical statements leveled at him and the administration, this one by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which correctly observed that "our government has the discretion in our laws to ensure that young children are not are not separated from their parents and exposed to irreparable harm and trauma period. Standing behind the seal of the U.S. Department of Justice, Sessions had the temerity to tell an audience made up of Rotary Club members in Fort Wayne IN that "many of the criticisms raised in recent days are not fair or logical and some are contrary to the law." The audience sat silently. He continued evoking quote the Apostle Paul and his clear in wise command in Romans 13, to "obey the laws of government because God had ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful. Our policies that can result in short-term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified period."Meanwhile, there was a much larger problem at hand, the one I had identified on the air: What would happen to the thousands of children separated by the Trump administration over the last six weeks? Nobody seemed to know.