Yes. Reporter they took you where all the children were . Si. These are the faces of families torn apart. If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. I asked them to please dont separate us, because my little brother was crying, and seeing him cry destroyed me and made me cry too. Then i didnt see him again. When separation of children and parents started as a systematic policy, you just see shock. You see pain. You see terror. You see desperation. Reporter these are todays immigrants, four families caught in a web of policy and politics. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero zero in the United States, if you break the law, you go to jail, and youre separated from your family. Shouldnt be any different for illegal immigrants. translated it was extremely hard to explain to my son what was happening to him. Reporter tu papa, was he able to say bye to you . Did he explain what was happening . No. translated on the video call with my daughter, she couldnt speak, beca
Election. This is something many people may have missed this week. We think you may not want to miss it tonight. We begin with the crisis of the thousands of imMigrant Children ripped away from the parents by the Trump Administration. With no plan on how to reunite them with their parents. The headlines today tell the story of chaos, confusion and uncertainty on whether this government has the ability to reunite the families that it chose to separate because the Trump Administration has now begun deporting some parents without their children. We want to show you this report from nbc news, it stopped us in our tracks when we reviewed it in the newsroom. You know wont see this anywhere elsz. Richard is in el salvador reporting with a story with a man sent home from the u. S. Without his daughter. Reporter nearly 100 migrants arrive deported for entering the United States illegally. Many didnt want to show their faces. Among the arrivals, we saw no children. So where are they . Translator
Theres been a lot of questions about the girls but what about the babies. The Trump Administration has decided to call them tender age children. The crisis here in our southern border is growing everyday and it becomes more grim and more difficult to bear everyday. Nbc news and msnbc have sent dozens of correspondents to try to capture this story, to cover this story and we have been doing it from one end of the border to the other, we have had people in san diego all the way across the border to right here where i am tonight in brownsville, texas, on the east end of our southern border. We also have correspondents in Central America tracking this story, tracking the story of how these immigrants are coming north, including the story of what are now thousands of imMigrant Children being held in some of these mysterious Detention Centers. One of them is right behind me. Its one of the largest ones, the largest one for children. Some of these Detention Centers are in unknown locations. I
Facilities somewhere around here for what theyre calling tenderage children. This is a very difficult story to process, it has been everyday but now the focus is finally on the people weve been wondering about the most, the babies. Theres been a lot of questions about the girls but what about the babies. The Trump Administration has decided to call them tender age children. The crisis here in our southern border is growing everyday and it becomes more grim and more difficult to bear everyday. Nbc news and msnbc have sent dozens of correspondents to try to capture this story, to cover this story and we have been doing it from one end of the border to the other, we have had people in san diego all the way across the border to right here where i am tonight in brownsville, texas, on the east end of our southern border. We also have correspondents in Central America tracking this story, tracking the story of how these immigrants are coming north, including the story of what are now thousand
Untangle. Also, this week we got new insights into some of the tactics used by russia to undermine the elections in 2016 as well as new warnings that the United States may not be prepared for what russia is up to in the next election. This is something many people may have missed this well. We think you might not want to miss it tonight. But we begin with the crisis of the thousands of imMigrant Children ripped away from their parents by the Trump Administration, relegated to shelters all over the country with no apparent plan for whether or how to reunite them with their parents. The headlines today tell the story of chaos and confusion and uncertainty around whether this government has even the ability to reunite the families that it chose to separate, especially because the Trump Administration has now begun deporting some parents without their children. We want to show you this report from nbc chief fornt correspondent richard engel. It stopped a lot of us in our tracks when we sta