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♪ lets groove tonight. ask your doctor about toujeo. >> the u.s. border patrol agents say they are overwhelmed at the southern border ice director announcing the agency has released a number of migrants claiming to be families since in december and this practiced in. >> i think illustrates once again exactly the crisis that we face. do not forget, the 200,000 family members, that is what ice release. because border patrol is overwhelmed, ice is overwhelmed, hhs is overwhelmed, the border patro...

U.s.? >> chris, if thats what youre saying is in it, great. those are some steps and you have been so on the money on the fact that this is a crisis at the border that needs some addressing. clearly we cannot have all of these people in camps, children in cages, et cetera. so any step forward that helps that crisis is important. and its not just a wall. but again, you may have inside information. i have no idea. i havent seen anything. i havent seen it at all. nobody has. so lets see. >> okay. >...

If we see continuous transmissions of the virus, until the outbreak hits its one-year mark, thats why we could be at risk of losing our elimination stat us. >> so what are they doing to keep this from spreading and how, i guess, ineffective is it now? >> efforts are being made to make sure that more people are getting vaccinated against the measles, and even health and human services secretary alex azar spoke out about that this week, and says more work needs to be done, and he said and ill quot...

Michigan of the grandmother that was raped and the money stolen and trying to protect her children, those are the people that we have to take care of and we do need to have a strong national security. we do need to have a strong policy at the border but im also going to worry about those kids. >> but thats my point. i agree with you 100% and i appreciate your fashion and focus on this but what im saying is i feel like you guys should have given the money weeks ago when dhs came to you and said w...

And you say where is our humanity, why arent we caring about these people? dont we have to do some caring here? >> answer your own question, congresswoman. i had democrats on here about this all month long. she says well give them the money but we want to guarantee theyll get them in safe places. with all due respect i dont see the urgency that an emergency requires from your side either. you have to give the money to dhs and hhs. theyre begging for it and of course you want assurances but youre...

>> yes. because the children cannot be cared well and border patrol facility. i mean, you know, the trafficking victim protection act requires by statute that child can only be in border patrol custody 72 hours or less and they are violating that every day because h.h.s. does not have the beds and cant get them out quick enough. these facilities being built number one they live within the statute of the law. number two the children will be taken care of better in a facility thats prepared for th...

Remarks. >> and the trump administration said shelters using unaccompanied migrants are asked to cut back because of a stiek of the number of children in custody. they have been cutting funds fortivifor activities daemed not necessarily likely. that is according to a spokes man for hhs, but it could violate a long standing supreme court ruling that says immigrant children in the u.s. have the right to education. coming up next on "morning joe." a wealthy iraqi sheikh spent 26 nights at a presi...

Them. >> hold on a second, the hhs secretary told dhs i cant take any more kids. i have no more money. i have nowhere to put them. its illegal for them to do so. why dont you give them that money. >> why dont you talk to them about why they do not want to -- they probably stone walled you which is what they have done to us. a couple of very important things. department of homeland security or health and human services, they signed a memorandum of agreement. this is last year and what it was was ...

Or health and human services, they signed a memorandum of agreement. this is last year and what it was was that hhs will transmit information to the department of homeland security and about the information about sponsors coming forward. what they wanted to do there was turn hhs whose mission is to put kids in a safe place and do it as expeditiously as possible. they wanted them to become immigration enforcers. they slowed down the process to a halt. they ground it to a halt. >> they need money ...

What i have watched and what we are trying to prevent are kids in unlicensed facilities. places where they are not vetting. this is what we ought to be talking about. >> youre not dealing with the crisis. >> with all due respect i understand your concerns. i understand what they want to attach to the money in terms of that but you know that will kill the bill in the senate and you have a crisis on the border where they need money right now and youre not giving it to them. the secretary of hhs to...