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>> in this humanitarian situation. >> one last question. you know, what we hear from all sorts of people who have dealt with this issue for years is that there was actually a solution. if we're talking about solutions, there was one thing that worked and it was this pilot program started by the obama administration where when families would come to the border and request asylum, they would be assigned a case manager. and that case manager would check in with them sort of like parole and check on them. it had 100% -- it had a 99% success rate of the families being tracked and showing up when th...

The border, one democratic senator is making new claims about those efforts. senator jeff merkley tweeted out that i have learned the trump administration is suspending all asylum claims. there are over 40,000 cases pending in those offices. the acting director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services fired back, calling his claims false, but then added that, indeed, some asylum wo workers are being sent to the border. let's bring in barbara mcquaid and julia ainsley. what more do we know about what senator merkley tweeted out? >> i have the letter that he got that shows that there were im...

Reform. pete buttigieg said there is no will to do it. there was. we passed it in 2013. now we ever the house of representatives that wants to get it done, and you just need a president not to wait until the end of their term, which has now happened with two presidents, it has to happen right away and that is my goal. that means half the citizenship, and it means more money to make sure we're handling those asylum cases. >> amy klobuchar, you were a great contestant tonight. i think contestant is the right word. >> it's "game of thrones." >> steve kornacki standing by at the board with how the...

Criminals, hardened criminals. >> it remains unclear how the united states will be able to deport migrants in violation of this policy. if those transit nations, like mexico or guatemala, do not agree to take them in. it marks an effort r to reduce e number of people eligible to apply for asylum. the question remains how this would affect the existing backlog of asylum cases. over the past two years the number of new cases to u.s. immigration courts has been on the rise. this comes despite the administration's efforts to reduce immigration and speed up the process for these cases. as politico ...

>> 80%, 90% are not true asylum cases. the whole point of asylum is fleeing political persecution, we have compassion for those people looking for a better life. that is not what asylum laws are 4. we have a process for that. it is important we realize true compassion would have been addressing the situation we see at the border many months ago. compassion is proactive, not reactive. a lot of the rhetoric in the last couple weeks in dealing with the situation. after calling it a manufactured crisis for several months it is unconscionable, should have been doing something about this. heather: t...