The amount of terrible news and cruelty being generated by Donald Trump's administration isn't just hard to keep up with as a matter of volume—it's often emotionally crushing to just stay informed of all the abuse being heaped, legally, on already vulnerable people and their families.
On Tuesday, Rachel Maddow started to read a news update from the Associated Press at the close of her show. The report was on the Trump administration's "tender age" shelters, where the youngest children forcibly separated from their families at the border are kept. But Maddow, seeing the report for the first time as she read it, uncharacteristically became so choked up that she couldn't finish the segment.
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Maddow took to Twitter afterward to apologize and finish reporting on the AP's findings. There are currently three such facilities designed to house infants and toddlers, and the government is planning to add a fourth.
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On a related note, ProPublica recently released this recording of children held in a detention facility away from their families. In it, an agent jokes that the wailing in the background sounds like "an orchestra." And while Maddow found reports on child detention centers so disturbing she couldn't keep talking, hosts on Fox News are vociferously defending them, with Laura Ingraham claiming that they're no different than summer camps.
