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Philadelphia is quick to remove kids from bad homes. But how does that help the children? Kim Strong, York Daily Record USA TODAY analysis shows Florida took kids from families, failed to keep them safe Replay Video In the neighborhoods of Philadelphia, a secret had been whispered about for years. The agency watching over the city’s children was heavy-handed, people said. It was easy for a family to lose its children into foster care, it was rumored. Carolyn Hill heard the st...

In the neighborhoods of Philadelphia, a secret had been whispered about for years. The agency watching over the city’s children was heavy-handed, people said. It was easy for a family to lose its children into foster care, it was rumored. Carolyn Hill heard the stories, then she became one of those people. The mother of five had taken in her two nieces in 2011, and a year later, she watched them walk out of her house with a social worker, right in the middle of the familys dinner. “I jus...

"we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States"

To be as cruel as he can to children and their parents. >> the president insists his new policy offers a humane solution to child separations. >> many people will be saved in many womens lives will not be destroyed and ruined. >> tonight there are already calls for a challenge to the new policy in court but the president seemed undeterred. he says next up on the agenda is overhauling the 14th amendments birthright citizenship. today she called it ridiculous. >> shannon: he seemed surprised that ...

Not just a new rule making. theyre going to try to overrule a court ruling and this will end up in court. viewers should not this will not take effect in 60 days. it will be subject to litigation and could -- the battle could last a lot longer. so it is a means to get around catch and release so people coming here know that theyre going to be detained together or deported together. the president is being blunt about this. its intended to be a deterrent like child separations. hes talking about b...

It happen. last week, for example, separations, miller was the key person behind that. the president kind of has a big picture vision on immigration with stephen miller, really the one who puts detail to the paper and makes it happen. >> josh, that was seen as an abject failure. >> right. >> why doesnt the president hold stephen miller responsible for that. >> stephen millers most high profile projects were seen as abject failures. he was behind the travel ban that was not implemented well in th...

>> while democrats, mr. secretary, were going after each other on the stage in detroit last night, president trump started tweeting, and he was blaming the obama administration for child separations. did all of this debate, all of this talk of former president obama give president trump ammunition? >> well, look, president trump has been telling lies about president obama and everything else, you know, since he became president. i mean, this president is a serial liar. you cant believe anything ...

Acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenan goes before congress to talk about child separations. on the committee, alexandria ocasio-cortez, rashida tlaib and ayanna pressley. and as all of this is swirling, and bc unearthed a from 1992 showing president trump with accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein had a mar-a-lago party. the two were seen talking about women at the party, buffalo bills cheerleaders, and at one point and to a joke. trump did not comment on the tape tonight, though he has set in t...

Democrats, they dont view it as a crisis. and the problem is all they do is advocate previous policies which not everybody thinks were working either. >> youll hear them use the phrase humanitarian crisis. i think that references what carrie is talking about, child separations, things that have unfolded. but the 2016 campaign showed all of us that when the debate is around how president trump is framing immigration, thats a hard thing to talk about for the other side. i think that theres a sense...

New reporting of nbc news may show that and may reveal that president trumps hard line immigration policies may have separated more migrant families than was originally thought. in addition to previous trump policy, child separations, nbc news found that the administration has identified at least 1,712 migrant families and other children who may have been taken from their parents. this is a result of reviewing just under 5,000 of 50,000 childrens files so far. so there can be a big number more, ...