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Ripping them out of the hands of their parents who are best able to care for these children while we sort o do they need protection and should they be allowed to remain or can they be returned. >> bottom line, and you spent an enormous amount of time studying these issues, what needs to be done right now to deal with this crisis? >> we need to have a rational approach to addressing the conditions in central america that are causing families and children to flee to begin with. theres extreme viol...

Shortened asylum cases. as a lawyer in private practice, it is exceptionally hard to put on a successful competent asylum case in just two weeks. the basic outlines of what republicans are proposing would result in mass incarceration of children in pretrial detention, something not embraced by either party in a long time. >> senator chris coons, we appreciate you spelling out so clearly on your position on this. its really helpful to talk to you. >> thank you, alisyn. >> john? >> it is fascinati...

Do you know there are three conditions by which minors and adults are separated in these circumstances? two of the three are to protect the children, and somehow all of you are glossing past that, so lets review the facts. the first is, if you cannot establish a familiar or custodial relationship between the adult and the minor, we have a 315% increase in the last few months alone in fraudulent cases, children being smuggled, presenting as a family. you have to care about these children also. th...

The adult has broken the law in entering the united states and now will be prosecuted, you can get to a port of entry and present for a credible fear asylum case. the support reminding people to do that. go to one of the ports of entry and support the credible fear case. i only wish you would play the audiotape, the videotape, that cnn would do a surround sound program of the hundreds of thousands of minors that have come into the border into this nation in the last several years. i dont know wh...

Seven of us were down there on fathers day. we were at the port of entry. we watched the american border guard stop these who were seeking asylum from being able to cross over the bridge to present their asylum case. two weeks earlier there were 40 families on the bridge. they didnt like that vision so they prevent people from coming at all and just let in a couple cases day, a few cases a day. >> i want to play some of attorney general sessions on fox with laura ingraham talking about the compa...

And as you just heard pete williams report, there are parents out there, and as you know from experience and the conversations youve had, there are parents out there who have gone through the system, been deported, and still dont have their kids back. tell us the stories youve heard. >> yeah, what weve heard is completely distressing. as horrific as this policy is n and kind of the general sense of it, when you get up close and talk to the parents and hear their voices and see this legal infrast...

Month has really been focusing on shifting all arrests, illegal arrests around the border for criminal prosecutions. essentially any immigrant regardless having an asylum case or not, if they cross the border illegally in between the ports of entry then they will be referred to the department of justice for prosecution, criminal prosecution and if they have an asylum case it will still be heard but also theyll have that criminal record which could deter them in the long run from getting asylum. ...

And children here who have been sleeping on the concrete floor off and on threadbare mats really sleeping rough but despite that i would say that spirits are pretty high most people are fairly optimistic that theyre going to get a chance to make their case and although theyre in a fairly dire circumstances waiting for the processing center to be able to hear them i would say its generally a positive a. positive mood how long do people. to wait for a decision. well at this point the people who re...

President donald trump has described mass migration as a threat to national security he called on the caravan called the caravan a provocation and warned it could be denied access to the country clare richardson reports from the border. these are some of the faces that have invoked the great president donald trump the reason hes threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border. stop short on their journeys theyve set up makeshift camps into want to mexico....

What theyre going to do. what do you think is going to happen here? do you think that some of these people are going to come into the country illegally? or theyll just go home? what happens? >> well, erin, this is an opportunity for us to go back to the table and pass bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform. we should recognize, though, that these are mothers carrying babies, theyre fleeing violence. they dont have clean water and clean air or access to food. so we should not be inhumane in...