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The united states does not apologize separating children from parents. we talked about how they drew the comparison to what happens here in the united states, if a parent breaks the law, she says the parent goes to prison without their family and they are separated from their family here in this. talk about whether you believe the administration should apologize for separating kids from families or if you believe that secretary neilson has a point. the administration should apologize, it should apologize for the cruelties that it is wreaking and for its dishonesty. yes, if someone is arrested and goes to jail they cannot take the kids with them. but the normal policy of the united states has been for multiple administrations that if you cross the border illegally you are subject to a civil action for deportation. you can be charged criminally, but normally we re not unless there was some aggravating factor. what this administration has done, the zero tolerance policy ....
You have a large backlog, when you can t remember, these families almost all of them are fleeing violence. they ve been attacked, some of the p tha we re dealing with have had family members murdered. they re taking their 12-year-old kid with them because the 12-year-old has been told if he doesn t join a gang he ll be murdered. his older brother already has been murdered for failing to join a gang. so their desperate. and then they come t a port of entry and in some cases there s a long waiting list, in some cases they re told come back again, we can t deal with you now. and then they cross the border a mile away. so that s just disingenuous. and for her to say tha that we re going to raise the standard of asylum, make it even more difficult to get asylum for people who are desperate, instead of saying let s have more asylum judges, more due process, let s process these desperate people who are ....
Described this as a possible deterrent. this was over in the spring. john kelly said this may be a way to stop families, stop adults and children from crossing the border illegally. kaitlyn and nancy, that s where we are at this moment in time. expected at the briefing in about 2 1/2 hours now we ll be there as you see secretary nielsen walk off of stage. i expect that sara and issers will have another frankly pretty heated discussioning with reporters in that room just like we saw at the end of last week. it was a very tense brief on this where sara and is assers was asked and had to fall back on the idea that the bible does allow this and this is a morality issue. i think that we ll see, as you said, another tense briefing. one of the things that, you know, i think is important to point out is that while the administration has been really going after democrats on this, this line about loopholes, internally there s not total agreement on this. kirstjen nielsen has been fighting with ....
Country. we provide food, medical, education, and all needs that the child requests. let s be honest, there s some who would like to us look the other way when dealing with families at the border and not enforce the law passed by congress, including, unfortunately, some members of congress. past administrations may have done so, but we will not. we do not have the luxury of pretending that all individuals coming to this country as a family unit are, in fact, a family. we have to do our job. we will not apologize for doing our job. we have sworn to do this job. this administration has a simple message. if you cross the border illegally, we will prosecute you. if you make a false immigration claim, we will prosecute you. if you smuggle illegal aliens across an extraordinarily dangerous journey, we will prosecute you. but i have also made clear you do not need to break the law of this country by entering ....
The policies saying this is not our policy. so the white house is trying to kind of have it multiple ways here in terms of saying, look, we are the toughest administration on immigration if you cross the border we re going to prosecute you. as soon as the argument comes back saying, well that results that policy that you put forth results in children being separated from their families, they say, well, this is the democrats fault, right? so there s also this issue of lawmakers on capitol hill don t know exactly what the administration wants because of these confing messages. so that will matter well, they want a wall, right? that s what this administration wants. that s what this president wants. he has been tweeting as much which shows the political nature of how he s thinking about this. but republicans even on capitol hill are saying, look, we don t even know what the policy is and what they re trying to do about it. so still questions among republicans. let salk about wha ....