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People who break the law are criminals. >> these individuals are coming to the border seeking asylum and they are willing to go through that legal process of seeking asylum. and the president has turned them into criminals and he has turned his back -- >> we dont know what theyre going to do. >> thats true. heres the thing. you cant judge them before they do it. the president -- >> we know that in most of the cases, you even said, chris, that most of these people are coming -- christine even sai...

Jack: good morning, welcome back democratic candidates in texas pushing to decriminalize illegal crossing. rob: beto orourke running against ted cruz saying asylum seekers attempt to do what any human would do is to request asylum in between ports of entry, we should not criminalize that. here to weigh in director of policy studies at the center for immigration, jessica vaughn. he says that they are requesting asylum in between ports of entry, now, for everybody at home if you go to port of entr...

Trumps parents because we know that this president has repeatedly denounced what he refers to as chain migration. where adult u.s. citizens can obtain residency for their own families. his mother and father-in-law became citizens by taking advantage that have same program. how is that not hypocritical? >> its really fascinating. if you look at the white house proposals, what they sent to congress to try to get them to implement into law is removing the ability of a u.s. citizen to sponsor their ...

Assume asyl asylum. the judge erupted when he heard they had been deported in the middle of this and threatened to hold jeff sessions in contempt. the mother goes by carmen and came from el salvador after there were two decades of horrific sexual abuse by her husband and death threats from gangs. youre sump an important voice because its aclu attorneys that are fighting her asylum case. shes back. whats your reaction to whats transpired? >> it was horrendous. the fear she must have felt after sh...

And yesterday the government revealed that 559 children are still separated from their parents. 365 of them have parents who have already been deported. joining me now is raul reyes, an attorney and nbcnews.com contributor. raul, thank you very much. this was a remarkable moment. >> right. >> the mother and the daughter were, as he said, spirited away in the night, put on a plane and were sent to guatemala. the judge is hearing this case. >> right. >> finds out that theyre not there. hes hearing...

And theres been very little effort there for any sort of outreach, any sort of trying to suggest like this is a country we should try to bring things together. instead it is more division. >> it is a winning issue for republicans because a lot of their base is concerned about 2040. in 2040 white people will no longer be the majority. we wont have any one majority race. and that scares a lot of trumps base. they have nothing to worry about. its already the case in california and texas, white peop...

To move as ex pe ambitiopeditio can. but she would not commit to the timeline of thursday. theres a new form that the aclu is asking these parents to sign before they deport so they really understand all their rights. one of the options they can choose is to speak to a lawyer so they can understand whether or not they still have an asylum case thats pending. as we saw before with the old form that jacob and i reported on, they were given two choices, deport with your children or deport without. ...

>> well, at this facility you see behind me just a short while ago, there was a 40-year-old mother who was reunited with her 17-year-old daughter. this mother was released on bond pending her asylum case on monday, and just to kind of give you a sense, anderson, of what kind of a process is involved here, this mother showed up here at this facility at 10:00 this morning, and it took almost eight hours for all of the paperwork, the verification. were not exactly sure of exactly everything that we...

As of last night, just 38 of the 102 kids identified under a judges order had been reunified with their parents. another 27 were determined to be ineligible as of yet. ed lavandera joins us from brownsville, texas. i understand you have seen some families reunited today. whats the latest youve learned? >> well, at this facility you see behind me just a short while ago, there was a 40-year-old mother who was reunited with her 17-year-old daughter. this mother was released on bond pending her asyl...

For the process to be able to remove the children from hhs care into i.c.e. custody with their parents, but it is really through that process and at least it only exists for the 102 children under 5 right now. we know that there are 3,000 who are separated in total and the only way for them to really speed up the process is to agree to be deported. as we have pointed out last week, katy, some of the parents had pending asylum case, and about to go before the judge, but they were give then choice...