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Gets his way will be representing all of texas soon. hes running for the u.s. senate seat in texas thats currently held by u.s. senator ted cruz. congressman orourke, thank you very much for joining us tonight. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> i know where you were yesterday and youre here in new york today. what were you hoping to achieve with this tornillo march on fathers day? >> you want to bring this to everyones attention because some people say, this ...

>> its catch-22. what do you do? and if you have just survived that, if you know you are prey to the cartels in reynoso matamoros or ciudad juarez or youre going to have to find some way to get to this country, thats what i would do for my kids. thats what almost any human would do. were punishing people, prosecuting them for being human and then taking their kids from them at their most vulnerable, their most desperate moment. later that day we went to a detention center where we met a man whod...

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No more room in the united states. >> theyve closed the ports of entry and then told people unless you come from the port of entry were taking your kid. >> its catch 22. what do you do? and if you have just survived that, if you know you are prey to the cartels in reynoso matamoreos or ciudad warz or youre going to have to find some way to get to this country, thats what i would do for my kids. were punishing people, prosecuting them for being human and then taking their kids from them at their ...

The trump administration was taking away an average of 46 kids per day from their parents. now, as of this month theyre not taking 46 kids a day away from their parents. theyre taking 67 kids a day away from their parents. 46 last month. 67 this month. so given the mess they have made of this in washington and the fumbling, bumbling, cannot get their story straight, do not know what to admit messaging disaster they have got on this in washington, on the ground its straightforward. this is in eff...

Yesterday led a march to the tornilloing makeshift campsite for separated kids, kids that have been taken away from their parents. its near his el paso, texas district. but congressman orourke if he gets his way will be representing all of texas soon. hes running for the u.s. senate seat in texas thats currently held by u.s. senator ted cruz. congressman orourke, thank you very much for joining us tonight. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. >> i know where you we...

Trump administration zero tolerance policy of pursuing criminal charges against every adult trying to enter the country illegally. so the parents go to jail, and the children go to shelters, as this one, where they stay until theyre reunited with relatives or deported. joining me to talk about this from an el paso texas, is democratic congress man orourke, challenging ted cruz. youre in el paso, lng a march to the nearby town of tornillo, where a new tent structure has been formed. 360 children ...

Washington, d.c. have to figure out. the facility has 16-year-old boys that are considered unaccompanied minors. when they came into this country, they were by themselves. and they were in other facilities that were state approved and state run. and they got taken out of those facilities and moved to tornillo. so on site there are folks that are working with them on triing to find a family member, whether in the united states or back in their home country. they have access to probono legal servi...

Parents. and at the moment that they finally thought they had reached safety, refuge, were going to petition for asylum, they were taken from their parents and are now in tornillo with no idea when or if they will see their mothers or their fathers on this fathers day again. >> president trump has been repeated lying, blaming this on democrats. its obviously based on this new practice by attorney general jeff sessions. take a listen to sessions defending this zero tolerance practice which has re...

Whole class that people are immune from immigration or enforcement. he said this past week it was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance. hes back. steven miller. your thoughts. >> absolutely right. john kelly floated this and i started sounding the alarm the moment they floated this because theyre not playing around. they have a zero tolerance because of a policy they implemented, not congress. but i want to go back. weve been working with organizations on the ground. ...