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Deterrent, was that a part of the calculation and the conversation that you had? >> no amount of deterrent will stop people from fleeing a burning building and that's what they're doing in central, in, they're fleeing violence, and poverty and the push factors that are driving america in the first place and we did do a matter of deterrence in 2013 when we saw an influx of kids crossing the border unaccompanied. we put families in detention, in family residential centers while they went through their immigration proceedings and we didn't separate them. so what the trump administration isn't doi...

In without parents. i don't want to confuse this with the parental separation issue, they came in without parents, they were matched up with sponsors. the federal government doesn't know where they are. and the trump administration has been taking a lot of heat for this. i was speaking with one source who said that this may be a situation where many of these sponsors, who may be undocumented themselves, are actually hiding in a way, right? they're hiding from the federal government. this is a political climate that they may be fearful of. because of that, do you think this is something that th...

Despite the president's claims, he is responsible for these separations. it is part of attorney general jeff session's plan to prosecuter 100% of people who are crossing the border illegally. as the parents are detained, they're separated from their children and this includes potential asylum seekers and undocumented workers. john kelly admitted the purpose of the separations is to discourage illegal border crossings. he called family separation, quote, a tough deterrent. there's also a different issue at play here. what some are calling missing children. hhs officials confirmed the u.s. offic...

At the border unaccompanied. the government takes them. >> absolutely. >> while waiting for immigration court are placed with hopefully family or relatives or somebody that has a connection to that child, and that person's supposed to have a background check and the government is supposed to pay attention where that child is in order to make sure that child is not sent to a human trafficker or -- >> right. >> some other, you know -- underaged work conditions, something like that. and they have lost 1,400 of these kids? >> 1,475, they admitted themselves. they're not good at that process. i wou...

Really made passing immigration reform very difficult and advancing it very difficult because even though the border is more secure and all of us who know the statistics know that the border is more secure, that in fact these kids are turning themselves over to the border patrol agents, but the optics are that you see these children going across the border unaccompanied. so it becomes a very hard argument to sustain to the american public when they're seeing kids go through a border that seems like it's swiss cheese. so it really does put a damper on this argument that he has deported so many ...