overstays? we just give you examples. jessica: okay, maybe there were three or four people getting deported. steve: can i just make a point about hakeem jeffries? i nearly exploded watching my comment from him. melissa: i saw that. steve: that he is the problem. hakeem jeffries is the problem, with that incendiary rhetoric. wary of a policy disagreement over something which is perfectly reasonable. by the way, that is the e.u. policy. if you try and claim asylum, you have to do it in the first country you come to. you can t just travel through because you want to end up in germany or the u.k., which has a stronger economy. this is a perfectly reasonable policy and he s calling it xenophobic. jessica: but it isn t our policy, that s a problem. and the aclu steve: secondly, he talked about the policy being lawless and undermining the law. hang on the second the deportations, contrary to what you re saying, these are people who have been through a legal process. they ve be
sure their kids are learning to speak english and they feel comfortable in the communities and that s going to take out reap on both sides frankly. reporter: what people heard was an old and unfair stereotype. pbs correspondent pushed back on b brokaw. i grew up in miami where people speak spanish and their kids speak english. as if spanish and other languages wasn t always part of america is in some ways troubling. reporter: the show moved on but the conversation was just beginning. brokaw who covered the civil rights movement seemed out of touch with america today. texas democrat yakin castro called it xenophobic. when brokaw expressed regret, tweeting i feel terrible my comments offended some members of the brown culture, and slammed him saying it only further demonstrates brokaw s