they were able to go ahead and live their life without adding unnecessary tax burdens to the american people. and cal, separately, just quickly, there s an nbc news report today too about this family separation. we thought this was a policy of the administration we know it s a policy they announced in april. but there was a pilot program they were running a few months before, it turns out? yes, so just before the trump administration came into power it dust seem like there was a pilot program being run in the el paso area testing this out as a measure of deterrence, separating these kids out. the problem is the u.s. government has not given us any month by month numbers. we don t know how quickly it increased. we don t have a good grasp on why it is there are still 2,047 children in government detention not being returned to their families. if there already had been a pilot program in place. if the u.s. government were
before a court, receive an ankle bracelet and they would be asked to come back later. not only did that save families but it saved billions of dollars to the taxpayer. close to 99% of the families that received the bracelets showed up for a court date so they were responsible, they recognized the process, they were informed of the process and they were able to go ahead and live their life without adding unnecessary tax burdens to the american people. there s an nbc news report today, too, about this family separation, we thought this was a policy we know it s a policy they announced in april but there was a pilot program they were running a few months before it turns out. yes, so just before the trump administration came into power there was a pilot program being run in the el paso area testing this out as a measure of deterrence, separating these kids out the problem is we don t
families would come to the border seeking asylum they would do just that they would go before a court, receive an ankle bracelet and they would be asked to come back later. not only did that save families but it saved billions of dollars to the taxpayer. close to 99% of the families that received the bracelets showed up for a court date so they were responsible, they recognized the process, they were informed of the process and they were able to go ahead and live their life without adding unnecessary tax burdens to the american people. there s an nbc news report today, too, about this family separation, we thought this was a policy we know it s a policy they announced in april but there was a pilot program they were running a few months before it turns out. yes, so just before the trump administration came into power there was a pilot program being run in the el paso area testing this out as a measure of deterrence, separating these kids out the problem is we don t