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Separated from their parents. joining on us discussion now is jonathan ryan. hes executive director for the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services in texas. also joining us, rita tracy kama kamara. i want to get your opinion from what you heard in the previous segment from a lawyer who was there last week. >> it is clear that this is cruelty by the president, and when he pledged to end immigration last year, hes done the opposite. hes basically done a switcheroo with the a...

People like jim mattis, jeff buchanan. by the time it gets down to the individual soldier, theyre not worried about the politics. they have a mission, they have a clear focus. and i think they leave the noise up here in washington, d.c. behind them. >> quite a bit of noise it is. jonathan, on the asylum issue, heres what folks -- what you hear from folks who support the presidents policy move. enter the country legally and ask for asylum, sure. come in illegally, why then should they get special...

Your reaction to what barbara is reporting, this new authority that the president is likely to give to u.s. troops at the border? >> well, i think what were seeing is what typically federal officials have around the world. whether its personal security detachments in combat zones for key leaders, whether its the secret service protecting the president here. whether its armed guards at military facilities. i dont think theres anything necessarily unusual here. im just happy to see that were doing...

That this holiday celebrates in order to what really appears to have been trying to score some political points in the run-up to an election. >> right now, a setback for the president with the judges ruling overnight. the fight is not over. we will all see what happens next. general, i appreciate your time, karoun, jonathan, thank you. i appreciate it. coming up for us, using private e-mail for government business. yes, you can stop me. you have heard this one before. so what, though, does it ...

Authorities that will allow the military troops on the border to do just that. to intervene and help protect customs and border officials if they run into a problem. you know, military police are experts in two ways. yes, they can -- they do use in war zones lethal force, but they also have crowd control techniques, crowd control agents, and i think every expectation is that they would do everything they could to be proportional and not use lethal force unless they absolutely had to. >> barbara,...

That i saw did,s s as described have schools and -- >> but you would send your child to these centers? >> i -- i -- >> yes? no? >> that is a difficult question to answer. >> joining our discussion now, jonathan ryan, executive director for the refugee and immigrant center in texas. and jonathan, as you know, the congressman wrote a letter to ivanka trump today after she made her public comments inviting her to come to the border, to come down there where you have been and to see first-hand whats...

Try head and shoulders two in one. would you send your children to these centers? >> i -- i certainly think that in general practice people would prefer to be free to move about. i can tell you that is centers that i saw did, as described, have schools and -- >> but you would send your child to these centers? >> i -- i -- >> yes? no? >> that is a difficult question to answer. >> joining our discussion now, jonathan ryan, executive director for the refugee and immigrant center in texas. and jon...

And jonathan ryan, executive drek for for refugee and immigrant center in texas. and maria inhosa, the director and producer of the public radio show latina usa. the first ladys trip to the area was a surprise today. i think you can vouch for her on this matter. the weather really was prohibitive for her to continue her travels in that region? it certainly looked that way even on the day i was there? >> yeah, massive flooding on that part of the state. two different stories about the weather her...

Ive been in detention centers where they let you in to talk to someone. theyre hiding this. they know its wrong. any american who thinks about it for a second knows its wrong to put kids in tent jails in the desert for no reason other than a political ploy. >> thanks, cal. >> its not just us not getting access to the camp -- go ahead. >> i want to go to jonathan ryan on this, because youve been working in the region on this for many years. what we just heard from the counselor there about theyre...

Of the rest of us can in the jails that donald trump is now running on the southern border for children and toddlers and babies, the rules say that none of the people working there can touch the children. melania trump can give one of those untouchable little girls, the warmth she deserves, the hug she deserves from one immigrant to another. >> i said that again on tuesday night when i was doing our coverage from brownsville, texas. so i have to wonder is it possible while the president is takin...