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Astronomical. $700 per child separated per night. $300 per family unit if they are all kept together. why not have a program that has a proven success rate of 99% where we can monitor, where we can track, where we can really work these cases to ensure that individuals have the justice that they are allowed within our asylum process? >> the president and other republicans have accused democrats for being for open borders. is that the case? >> thats not true. but the rule of the road is to have as...

Individuals that were there pleaded with me. i dont doubt that they are doing their best. what i do take issue with is separating a parent from their child in any way is humane, decent or a way to achieve comprehensive reform. >> how about the fact that they dont know where their kids are. good news, 500 were reunited. but 700 were taken from texas to new york thousands of miles from their parents. do you have any confidence that our bureaucracy, or i.c.e. know how to reunify parents and toddler...

Lives were desperate enough to illegally cross into the united states, in many cases risking their lives to get to that point. now to be apprehended and to go down this path. >> some of them are asylum seekers. some of them there is a process. some of them were attempting to do that process. but if you treat everybody krofrg the border as a criminal, you dont get to the asylum process. so you keur coupcircumvent that >> theres lots of procedures. look, this administration, and many of their back...

Border and cross illegally. then you go through the prosecution system. go to a port of entry, an embassy. they can go right to an embassy in mexico and go through the process quickly and apply to be a political asylum. do it the right way. >> just to be clear, what youre suggesting is that this policy of the that the administration decided on is a deterrent, which is something they hadnt admitted. it may very well be. be that as it may, i want to ask you one more thing. youre a political expert...

Arent doing them at check points. some are. there has not been a policy in the past to always prosecute people who say they are asylum seekers. again, this was a choice the they made. i said the word is confusion. you said cough qaa effect. melanias is i dont care. she is the senior most person who did go out there and check out how things are doing. she asked smart questions. she wanted to know how the kids are doing,ed last time they got to talk to their parents. >> she also wanted to know wha...

Process much at all. john and alisyn. >> the fact is they dont have enough republican votes because they have too many republican defections. the problem they have is within the party itself. abby phillip at the white house, thanks so much. parents trying to reunite with their children. some have been reunified. most are still waiting for answers. nick valencia is live in brownsville, texas with much more. nick? >> reporter: good morning, john. we all remember the audio released earlier this w...

The folks who have already been charged, whove already been separated from their kids, here is what the customs andder protection agency says about that. for those children still in border patrol custody, were reuniting them with their parents or illegal guardians following prosecution as specified by the order. families will not be detained together when doing so would pose a risk to the childs welfare. that last part is more in line with the policy that had been in place with past administrati...

With their children. do you treat them differently than other people crossing the border illegally? if im reading you correctly, you are saying the white house wants to charge each person who crosses the border illegally with criminal charges. youre saying, no. dont do that. were not going to detain you. if you have kids were just not going to detain you period. thats your answer. >> my answer is that we dont have to criminalize everyone thats coming here seeking asylum that we had a process tha...

Nearly 200-plus years for people coming here to flee oppression. we have to have real decency in the asylum process and we have to have immigration reform. this is becoming a bipartisan con consensus. people have gathered here at the point of contact to say this is no longer accept snoobl as you know, the administration pushed back on that and said, look, the asylum seekers who do it the right legal way dont get separated. these are people who try legally to cross over. are you trying to get int...

The parents in a way which would insist that the parents be held alongside the children in detention. i dont think you support that either, do you? >> no, i dont. this is not the choice. its not just a choice between do we separate kids from their parents or do we lock up entire families. we had a process that worked well before the administration changed that policy and that is, families were allowed essentially to be on probation where they were monitored intensely and required to show up for ...