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The dangerous and dehumanizing conditions the trump administration is inflicting on children and families. she said the inhumanity at the border is a challenge to the conscious of america. >> and it has been created by this administration. they have created this humanitarian crisis at the border. and this is the thing that i was thinking about the other day, which was the cruelty we see from the administration, the cruelty of the policy, the cruelty is not a by-product, its actually a policy and...

Are very crowd conditions. put up the dhs photos released by the watchdog agency. and these are clearly, congressman crenshaw, very overcrowded, very untenable situations. >> of course. and these democrats need to have a reasonable, logical conversation, engage in some problem-solving and then offer an actual solution. what theyre really doing is trying to stand on their moral high horse and sling arrows at everybody else while not offering a solution. lets not forget they fought us tooth and na...

Backlogs at the cdc facilities. hhs has to be equipped to take the kids into shelter care. brian: there is 51,000 of those kids since november. >> thats right. >> unaccompanied minors. hhs has the responsibility of taking care of those children. get them placed in society. cbp and ice have to have facilities to move people through their space. so that supplemental funding will add floor space and computers and add humanitarian aid for the situation. but if congress doesnt act and close these loo...

Alexandria ocasio-cortez did not vote for that. $2.8 billion of it was for unaccompanied alien children, and the program run by health and human services. hhs had fewer than 700 open beds. they are inundated with people. thats why these children are in border patrol custody. she voted no for that. why? >> tomi: she doesnt want anything that funds ice or cbp. shes been very clear about that, as have others. the other extremists in her party who have been very open about their hatred of law enforc...

They get handed over to i.c.e. and hhs. >> and they have been obviously housing people longer than that and weve seen the consequences. >> absolutely. but nobody -- nobody should be in these facilities, right, for long, let alone children, right? and i think whats happening in clint and el paso is an example of some of the facilities across the country. and even dhs, their inspector general did a report on these temporary facilities identifying some of the problems. and when people are in our cu...

>> neil: the loop holes being -- >> the flores agreement and how people that are not from mexico or not from canada, they come into the custody of cbp. theyre only supposed to be there a short amount of time and then to hhs. then they get placed into society. its dangerous for the kids and makes the border less safe and our country less safe. >> neil: and the people you used to work, with theyre doing baby sitting and addressing these issues and not policing the border. will things change with t...

Has been a surge in unaccompanied minors. they are coming mostly from central america where you have these terrible conditions, but instead of trying to put together a comprehensive system where the kids could be taken in by the border patrol and then immediately transferred to the office of refugee resettlement, thats hhs, thats the agency that has the ability to care for the kids. instead of doing that the administration has just sort of let this -- let this fester. what needs to happen, i tal...

Different agencies, the border patrol and the hhs people who are supposed to be taking care of these kids. they need to fix that. they need to be taking care of the kids from the minute they come into the u.s. custody and then they need to be reunited with their families as quickly as possible. >> is there also an extent of lack of coordination between what nancy pelosi is signaling and what which chuck schumer is signaling because it has been articulated many different places that theres now so...

What im concerned about and one reason i did support the house bill, but even with the senate bill, its several billions of dollars that you could be spending to put together seamless programs that provide good nutrition, good care, tooth brushes and showers and clothing and diapers for these kids at the border. so i understand that the republicans are trying to blame us, but the fact is now the money has been appropriated, now the administration has to put together the programs to make sure tha...

Think is a positive. to answer your questions speaker pelosi asked for self things. one was within 24 hours if god forbid a child guys, it should be given to congress. they say, of course, we should be doing that. additionally, a commit that unaccompanied minor children should not stay beyond 90 days. that is a common sense concession we thought made sense. we were answer to not relitigate the whole legislation that passed in the senate with only six democrats voting against it to say lets reope...