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Areas where hhs is the entity with care and feeding. >> one of the things that is very clear, jacob and the mayor is talking about, there is something different happening started in 2015 really but intensified, which is the kinds of crossings, where people come from and mismatch between that and the capacity legal, judicial, social services to deal with that. >> but why and how did we get here is the question we have to ask and you have to look back to bill clinton to understand how the border e...

Time was secretary of homeland security. this is before he was donald trumps chief of staff. and this was before the policy officially began. take a listen. >> if you get some young kids who are coming in, managed to sneak into the united states with their parents, our department of homeland security personnel going to separate the children from their moms and dads. >> we have tremendous experience of dealing with unaccompanied minors. we turn them over to hhs and they do a very very good job of...

Probably many more than the 2737 as of december 2018 who were actually separated, many thousands more. >> well, you know, the department of justice is only responsible for the prosecutions. we were supposed to have a hearing on tuesday which has now been cancelled because of john d ir ingels funeral with hhs and dhs. there are over a hundred kids that are still in custody from the ones that we originally thought were the first ones that were being separated, and now hhs has come back and said, w...

>> you may be confused here. this is the subject of ongoing litigation. >> let the record reflect that again youre refusing to answer the question. >> the first term of the obama administration. >> nice job. for best repeater up a question unanswered, the award goes to democrat congresswoman sylvia garcia. >> how many children are still separated from their families a we sit here today? >> that is the number that only dhs and hhs would know. >> so you have no idea how many children? >> those are...

>> you may be confused here. general sessions asked. the subject of ongoing litigation. >> so we will let the record reflect but again youre refusing to answer the question. during my first term of obama administration -- know running out the clock. nice job. >> laura: for best question and answered, the award goes to -- democrat congresswoman sylvia garcia. how many children are separated for the families as we sit here today? that is a number only dhs and hhs would no >> so you have no idea ho...

Ask them. but i will tell you there are over 100 kids still in custody from the ones we originally thought were the first ones that were being separated and now hhs has come back and said we dont can know that we can ever separate them. thats a court order -- that we can rejoin them with their parents, reunite them with their parents. the court order is they have to do that and now theyre saying its not possible, on top of the there are thousands that happened before. when john kelly says were d...

Minors. we turn them over to hhs and they do a very good job of putting them in foster care or linking them up with family members in the united states. yes, im considering an audit to deter more movement on this terribly dangerous network. im considering exactly that. they will be well cared for as we deal with their parents. >> and were you able to get annancer as to how long this has been going on and how many kids are actually still missing. because we now know there are probably many more t...

Task force. >> recently hhs interpreted rifra to allow a christian base foster care agency that does receive federal tax dollars to discriminate against potential foster parent because they happen to be jewish. do you know if the justice department stands behind this hhs determination that a taxpayer subsidized organization can discriminate against an jewish individual? >> im sure the department of justice will defend that position of a sister agency. >> thank you very much. >> the time of the g...

Limited public information on the task force and its work. the only public documentation is a two-page memorandum. are you aware of additional documents or guidance that explain the task force mandate and processes? >> no, im not familiar with any additional -- >> do you know what the budget is of the task force? >> i dont believe as i sit here today that weve actually affectated the task force yet. its an internal task force that would have no specific separate budget. >> will you commit during...

Adoption? >> i dont know. were obviously going to look into that. i dont know whether that was the intent or to deter families from coming in the first place. dont know that was the intent or the kids are being adopted. but i think we have to be careful because if the paurrents not around, you never know what will happen. i think the real reason was immigration enforcement and avr within knows its not going to deter peoplegen withinly in fear and its just something in the united states we dont d...