"Separated, by the MSNBC and NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff, shows how the Trump administration implemented a policy that amounted to a humanitarian catastrophe: systematically taking children from their migrant parents at the border. Will give you a sense of how the United States, a country that prides itself on its constitutional protections, also possesses a body of immigration laws that can be weaponized by an executive branch willing to do it. [A] horrifying story. Highlight[s] the secrecy and 'extraordinary confusion' of the process. What Soboroff memorably depicts isn't just tragic but brutal. Any soaring rhetoric about yearning to breathe free has been traded in for the crudest of threats: If you try to come here, just look at what we're willing to do." - Jennifer Szalai, New York Times "To experience the pain and anger many suburban voters felt about Trump's policy of ripping children from the arms of their asylum-seeking parents along the southern border, I'd recommend Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff." - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post "Groundbreaking.

All the original reporting in this book is extraordinary." - Andrea Mitchell "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." - Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show "This book is important. Everyone should read it. We have to face our demons as a country, and this is an opportunity to face our demons." - Joy-Ann Reid "Jacob Soboroff's excellent reporting at the border helped shine a light on Trump's cruel family separation policy. His new book, Separated, is a sobering account of what he saw and the human toll of the Trump agenda." - Julián Castro "Soboroff's thoroughly engaging exposé of the inner workings of a corrupt and unfeeling government is essential to understanding America's current immigration misery.

" - Booklist (starred review) "Jacob Soboroff's new book Separated is a kind of skeleton key to understanding the full totality of all the incompetence and cruelty on display by this administration in this era." - Chris Hayes (via Twitter) "As a correspondent for NBC News, Soboroff was among the the first to report on the Trump administration's family separation policy; here, he digs deeper into its roots and consequences." - New York Times Book Review, "New & Notable" "Jacob Soboroff zooms in on President Trump and his administration's decision to separate children from their parents as a deterrent to border crossers. In doing so, he illuminates how, in the face of congressional inaction, a cadre of presidential advisers can introduce policies with shocking, unintended consequences. With the immediacy of cable news, Soboroff attempts to reconstruct the quiet run-up to the public acknowledgment of the policy, including one official's efforts to destroy the internal list of separated parents and children. He interweaves this reporting with his own on-the-ground work as one of the first journalists to enter detention facilities holding the separated children. And he follows Juan and José, a Guatemalan father and son seeking asylum who are swept into the maw of the separation machine. Soboroff, who acknowledges that he came to the story late, offers generous recognition to fellow journalists and the advocates who saw the looming crisis well before he did.

Ultimately, the reporter is the protagonist, providing the book's strength and emotional core." - Laura Wides-Muñoz, Washington Post.