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Welcome back. this story matter rs. we're following breaking news right now. customs and borders protection is report iing the death of another mite grant child in custody. five migrant children have died since the month of since. joining me now is jacob soboroff who has been covering this story from the begin ining. what do we know specifically? >> let's stop and repeat what you said. we have had five migrant children, the majority of them from guatemala, die since december. we talked about on the border when this aggressive deterrence policy what happens when you put deterrence policies in p...

Areas where hhs is the entity with care and feeding. >> one of the things that is very clear, jacob and the mayor is talking about, there is something different happening started in 2015 really but intensified, which is the kinds of crossings, where people come from and mismatch between that and the capacity legal, judicial, social services to deal with that. >> but why and how did we get here is the question we have to ask and you have to look back to bill clinton to understand how the border enforcement got into a little bit with you led to this point. bill clinton put into prevention throug...

>> and i think we have to remember that the crisis, the humanitarian crisis that is described by donald trump as taking place with women and children suffering along the border, if not created by the trump administration, was largely exacerbated by it. the separations were a crisis created by the administration. by systematically doing that, putting it into place as a stated deterrence policy. metering people at the ports of entry on the other sides of walls like this is a policy put into place by the trump administration. it's forcing or at least encouraging people to go through areas that do...

Widely discussed -- >> these are u.s. federal workers that have continually asked for more help from the white house because of the conditions, because the facilities are not set up to handle children and they've basically been ignored. >> that's what they told us. instead they are told they need to focus more on deterrence policy. we know the asylum ban was blocked by the court. so the new policies that are under preparation now wanting to set up tent cities along the border for families and others to require asylum seekers to remain in mexico, within the department of homeland security there...

The legal way that historically people have used. >> because you've been covering the story for quite some time, it is surprising to me that it has taken them so long to figure out they need to change sort of the medical screening process that they have for these children. especially considering the family separation policy going on back in late spring, early springtime. we're hearing about children getting sick back then in detention centers and nothing was done. is it surprising to you that it has taken them so long to figure out something needs to change? do you think they have the resource...