One of our goals on 1A is to act as a kind of national mirror — to reflect what’s happening and ask what it says about us.

That’s a question many Americans have been asking themselves about the Trump Administration’s decision to separate families who try to cross the border.

A children’s pediatrician who assists with migrant children talked about the long-term effects of toxic stress. An 80-year-old caller from Maine said she was headed to a protest in front of a lawmaker’s office.