In ‘Separated,’ Oscar Winner Errol Morris Takes On Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy That Ripped Apart Migrant Families – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comOf all the policies implemented by the Trump administration, the most outrageous – at least to many critics – was Family Separation.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, for one, doesn’t mince words in his assessment of it. “The policy, when you really look at it square in the face, is appalling,” Morris tells Deadline. “Not a policy of deterrence, not a policy as some would argue of ‘just following the law,’ whatever that means.
A policy of cruelty.” Morris’s new documentary, Separated, premiering at the Venice Film Festival later today, investigates the Trump administration mandate that ordered the pulling apart of migrant families who crossed the Mexican border into the U.S.
Parents were detained and sent for criminal prosecution; their children, taken from them, were detained separately (in cages, or if you prefer, “chain-link enclosures”), under the jurisdiction of the Dept.
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