Family separation in our backyard: The cruelty of prematurely removing children from their homes

Tarek Ismail’s Op-Ed in The Daily News affirms: “The violence done to families scrutinized, surveilled and ripped apart by state agents is no less traumatic because it happens in our backyards, or because it happens in the name of protecting the children who are taken away. This is an open secret among family defenders like me, attorneys who represent parents in maltreatment proceedings.”