Families separated at border under Trump suffering severe trauma – study

Physicians for Human Rights release first analysis on mental health effects of former president's zero tolerance' policy

Children and parents forcibly separated at the US-Mexican border under Donald Trump's policy of zero tolerance" are showing signs of severe psychological trauma and mental health disorders that have endured even after they were reunited, a new study has found.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) have released the first qualitative analysis to be carried out on the mental health effects of Trump's highly contentious policy of enforced family separation which provoked outrage and condemnation around the world.