The sound of children crying for their parents at the border

(CNN)“I don’t want them to stop my father,” a child whispers in Spanish. “I don’t want them to deport him.”

• Emanuella Grinberg and Jamiel Lynch, CNN

So begins an excruciating audio clip of children howling for their parents after being separated from them at the US-Mexico border.

The audio was published Monday by the investigative nonprofit ProPublica. It adds a visceral element to the coverage of a controversial Trump administration policy of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US…