Self Separation News Today

Commissioner peggy hamburg will join andrea mitchell to talk about this. big news this morning in the fight against alzheimers in this country. meanwhile, once her visit wraps, vice president harris will head to mexico. we are getting a closer look at a new challenge thats emerging. migrant parents now deliberately sending their kids into this country alone. it has become a new kind of self-separation. gabe gutierrez has made his way to texas. he is along the southern border. gabe, this comes ...

We were just in mexico yesterday, several of the migrants yesterday asked if it was true that was border was opening. they were told this by smugglers. it is a misinterpretation of the biden administrations policies in a sense that unaccompanied minors can stay. that is also causing parents on that side of the border to make the agonizing decision to send some of their children over the border without them in essence a kind of self separation. vice president harris is going to guatemala and mexi...

Of the heat. who knows how long they have been out there in brush. the brush is very thick and this is what they have to come through in order to get through. >> reporter: now stephanie, there was something different that was happening. different kind of family separation. during the trump administration there was a zero policy and created that family separation. with the biden administration allowing unaccompanied minor to stand. we werover the border over the weekend, some of the families ther...

The last couple of days as we have been not just here on this side of the border but across the border in texas. as you mentioned, this idea of self-separation. these migrant parents facing the difficult decision and sending some of their young children over the border because they know they will be allowed to stay and potentially reunite with relatives in the united states. right here, actually, on saturday, we met a 10 and 12-year-old that had come over the border from mexico. they told me tha...

Will tell you not much has changed. because of the pandemic, that made things difficult. we are seeing slow but study-- steady progress. >> jess, forgive me if i have to cut you off, because we are waiting on the vice president. we will go to that. lets continue this conversation. gabe has been reporting on the idea of self-separation. families deciding that thats the best thing for their children. obviously, i understand the point that its so different from forced family separation. they are ma...