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This is simply the latest use of performance art to address a serious question of national integrity, a serious country and serious public officials would take action to regulate entry into sovereign territory. it would not leave the decision up to the exploiters on this side of the border looking for cheap labor or exploiters on the other side seeking to evade or exploit u.s. law. governor perry is not a serious official. he sent 1,000 u.s. national guardsmen to the border with no other mission...

And theyre there for a limited period of time, until you have the opportunity to train up some 3,000 more border patrol agents that would go and replace them. >> but if you strung them out along the border, national guardsmen and women, theyre not under the law allowed to apprehend any of these children that are crossing, are they? >> well, the issue is with being able to send that message. because its the visual of it that i think is the most important. >> yes, the visual. and that wraps things...

Please give me a chance to stay here. so i can fulfill i my dreams. so i can take care of my family. >> thats what this issue is about, not visuals or optics. its about real lives. there is no easy answer here. no simple solution. but politicians on both sides of the aisle have to work together on this crisis. thats one visual. them working together would be a welcome sight. joining me now is new msnbc host jose diaz balart. jose, first of all, congratulations on your new show. >> thank you, rev...

President obama asked congress for $3.7 billion to address the situation. but republicans are dragging their feet, playing politics with the crisis. texas governor rick perry has been at the forefront. hes pounding his chest and demanding the national guard be sent to the border. he received unexpected pushback on that plan yesterday. >> national guardsmen and women. they are not under the law allowed to apprehend any of the children crossing, are they? >> well, the issue is with being able to s...

Weve heard a lot of talk this week about optics. specifically the optics of president obama not visiting the border. but weve seen another version of that narrative develop this week, and specifically its related to the politics of texas governor rick perry. this is a governor weve seen this week all about #bordercontrol, tweeting out pictures of himself in tough-guy poses and calling for the militarization of the border with an infusion of national guard troops. >> when you add that thousand na...

Problem for both sides. >> and everything that im reading tells me thats a low number. 50,000 since october. potentially 90,000 of these little ones until september, and still, the president is not going to the border. real quickly, your last thoughts. >> well, it could be a bad visual for him, and democrats talk a lot about passing immigration reform. in this congress but theyre not talking about it on the campaign trail and actually doesnt poll for them so well. this border crisis doesnt help ...

Visual of that is what is so werful. and that is what gets sent to central america very quickly is that this border is not for us anymore. it allows the border patrol to get back to what they do and do best. thats the goal here. impress upon the present or impress upon the administration or impress upon washington that if you want to secure the border of this country, you can. thats the first step in dealing with the humanitarian crisis. if you dont stop the flow its. so boots on the ground. dro...

Visual of that is what is so powerful. and that is what gets sent to central america very quickly is that this border is not for us anymore. it allows the border patrol to get back to what they do and do best. thats the goal here. impress upon the present or impress upon the administration or impress upon washington that if you want to secure the border of this country, you can. thats the first step in dealing with the humanitarian crisis. if you dont stop the flow its only going to get worse. s...

Countries in countries like hondur honduras. tamron, you have the chief of police convicted, indicted rather for murder. this is truly a situation where people are escaping children -- children are escaping children for their lives. peter alexander covered the white house for a few years. said there was a conventional wisdom that republicans would take the heat for not acting on immigration reform. this bill has sat there for a year. talks have been hit a roadblock and not looking at any compreh...

Appalachia. people were aware it was rough there, but no one had any idea how bad it was until that presidential spotlight went down there. >> i think thats right. another point about a reporter being able to see the situation firsthand in terms of the policy that he could impact, also visiting one of the detention centers where children and young families are right now and this would give him an opportunity to speak to them about their journey and about the reasons that they fled their country ...