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We have held over two dozen hearings on some aspect of our unsecured border? im looking at producing peace legislation myself. a bunch of us are working on this. this is a problem we want to fix but we have to do root cause analysis. we cant look at just all the rhetoric around this thing. we have to look at facts and solve the problem which we have not done. one thing we have done is i go back and list about six or seven laws passed and then i list the number of people in the country illegally ...

Now reports say they were beaten and left in solitary confinement under the obama administration. >> thats not accurate. i think if you remember there was a lot of discussion and a lot of concern about how undocumented people were treated under obama. but under obama there was not a policy that says that you are a mom with a little boy coming over we will grab that boy and put him into a detention center which will cause long term psychological problems for that kid. that was not the policy of t...

The goal of our policy literally ought to be to reduce that flow. we have history in terms of how to do this. the same problem was faced with brazilians flooding this country in 2005. started the operation texas hold em. they immediately apprehended and sent them home. next year it was 1,500. within three years it was less than a thousand. we learned if you apprehend and quickly process and return people it discourages further illegal immigration. we have been encouraging illegal immigration. >>...

Problem. the decision really initiated 1985 so this is just a huge problem. we dont have the capacity to handle all unaccompanied children and all family units that are flooding our border because a host of judicial decisions, legal precedent and laws i think well intentioned but have negative unintended consequences that have created these incentives for people to flood our border. this problem has been around for a long time. >> absolutely, the problem of illegal immigration has been around fo...

Laws, dont resist. we are doing a far better job than bush and obama. we need strength and security at the border. cannot accept all people trying to break into the country. joining me now to respond is bernie sanders of vermont. thank you for joining us. you are in the minority and the senate and the house and you dont hold the white house when it comes to immigration. what is your side of the aisle willing to compromise on to have some sort of immigration reform? >> jake, i lost you. im not he...

Immigrants instead of looking at the children separated at the border. i want you to take a listen from this from friday. >> these are the stories that democrats and people that are weak on immigration, they dont want to discuss, they dont want to hear, they dont want to see and talk about. >> how do you respond to president trump making that argument? >> i responded the crime rate among undocumented people is lower than the general population. where was trump bemoaning the fact that we had a gu...

Cruelty. >> i think being tough is putting people through a process and if they dont pass the process you have to go back and you cant come in. we are also confusing refugee policy with the broader immigration. and what worries me if you start connecting the dots on one hand you have very hard rhetoric about immigrants and criminals and drug dealers. the president wants to cut legal immigration by half. all these signals tell me that the administration doesnt value immigration, doesnt value immi...

This idea of separating out these children is a unique to this administration policy. previous administrations have kept families together. when parents are leaving with children or coming with children to separate them out and that the american psychological association. >> these kids have been traumatized their entire life. >> the u.s. government should not be -- >> this is a journey with coyotes escaping horrific crimes. the united states should not be the same -- they should not be perpetrat...

Worker, millions of people working longer hours for low wages. the presidents job is to bring people together to address the problems that we face, not to divide us up, and not to demagog against desperate people who are coming into this country. >> well, you call it demagoguery. president trump says that he is giving voice to people who dont get heard from. for instance, he is suggesting that democrats need to focus more on the victims of crime committed by undocumented immigrants instead of lo...

Congressional candidates reportedly support abolishing or defunding i.c.e., the immigration and customs enforcement agency including cynthia nixon who tweeted i.c.e. is a terrorist organization and its leader is donald trump signing a petition to abolish i.c.e. do you agree that i.c.e. should be abolished? >> i think what we need is to create policies which deal with immigration in a rational way and a rational way is not locking children up in detention centers or separating them from their mot...