Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
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The Legal Consequences of Child Abuse By Government
Dr. Irwin Redlener, president emeritus and co-founder of the Children's Health Fund, professor of pediatrics and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, and the author of The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America (Columbia University Press, 2017), talks about the psychological trauma and effects on immigrant children that have been separated from their families and why it constitutes "child abuse and neglect by government," which could lead to legal consequences.
→"Pediatrician: If I Saw a Child Mistreated Like ICE Is Doing, I’d Call the Authorities" (The Daily Beast 6/28/2018)