Juan, like nine other men inside the facility we stood outside of, was losing hope. In the constantly changing numbers coming out of the Secretary’s Operations Center in Washington, the government was now saying more than 150 parents were in the same boat. “This was either the cruelest policy—even more cruel than I think people realize—or it was the most negligent policy of all time,” Toczylowski told me about the situation in which the separated parents now found themselves.
