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Inhumane, you cant win. >> no, you cant win. they know that theyll be released so theyll continue to come when theres no deterrent. its important to note that the asylum process has been abused. 80% of these asylum claims end up being denied. so these are economic immigrants. here coming here because they can make more money, have a better life here. theyre not the -- the overwhelming majority are not bona fide asylum claims. >> neil: and life would be easier in the economy in mexico was improve...

And one of the questions i got was, does this just apply to people crossing illegally? this applies to both. either people who present, they can be held in detention while they wait for the asylum process to play out. and we know about the attorney general has put out new rules that are supposed to say to judges and to asylum officers that things like gang violence and domestic violence are no longer claims for asylum. the law says they are being persecuted for their membership in a social group...

There are hundreds of parents who have been deported already and are not as lucky. >> you talk about how long theyll stay in detention, the trump administration is doing everything in its power to make it harder to get asylum status. these are not people crossing illegally. this is legal under domestic and international law, to come and apply for refugee stat us and both are being ratcheted way down. >> thats right. and one of the questions i got was, does this just apply to people crossing ille...

You could save $782. liberty mutual insurance. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ today a federal judge will decide whether the parents can come back to the united states to be reunited with their children who are still being detained. there are 519 children separated from their families, of those, 366 of them have parents outside of the u.s. many of them who were deported. so all of this comes as a judge temporarily halted deportation of families that have been reunite sod kids can have ...

In america we have an asylum process that was not adhered to for many people. >> but the point is these families are so desperate to get their kids, theyll sometimes send them without even coming themselves. theyll separate themselves from their kids. >> the only way they feel they can get their child to a safer future. >> usually they pay a lot of money there. >> is a lot going on here. this is tar from the last time we were talk about it. however, were wrapping it up for this afternoon. they a...

Phone number to find their kids. the kids dont know how to contact their parents, its a mess. >> i dont argue that, the entire situation even before the policy that created this particular problem was particularly problematic. this is a very difficult situation when people break the law, enter this country with children, and you had even in the previous administrations problems in how you deal with this in a way that maintains the integrity of your border and treats children in a humane and dece...

Process. the president says he doesnt want judges. well, thats what judges are for. >> right. >> to judge whether or not somebody -- has a decent case to make. so holman says enforce the law. >> did you sense from him and do you sense from other i.c.e. officials and other people who tried to tackle this issue a frustration, a belief that you hear out of this administration that people in the past have brought children up with them to make their passage into the united states easier? >> you know,...

Shy, the administration is claiming they are ineligible for refooun unification, can you claim all families are back together? theyre not, theyre giving an excuse, what itself the truth? >> right. so that 711 number fits into several categories. the children remain here, the parents remain here. some of them, the government cant account for another parents signed away their right to be with their kids and were deported outtheir kids, on that question there is some controversy. some claiming they...

And the obama administration. how does the administration fight the optics on this? because policiwise and practice wise, theyre back to catch and release. but do pictures like rosa just showed us, of this little boy being reunited with his father after 43 days, will those haunt this administration? >> well, i think the picture of the cruelty of this administration are a very deliberate part of this. theyre a feature, not a bug, of the trump administrations policy. and so i think that were in a ...

I was with one of these kids separated two weeks ago, a young boy. he looked at me like i was his father. about his fathers age, with the same confusion these families are experiencing. it was heart breaking to see. number one priority needs to be to re-connect these families. congress with make that happen by just stopping any further action on ot presidents properties. >> this is not about politics. it is about humanity. id like to believe that all americans can put decency and humanity first....