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With this many people coming in, how do you process everyone? we need to do several things. number one, we need to honor their asylum claims. the reason why oscar martinez and his daughter valeria ended up trying to cross that river is because this administration is playing games, something called metering. people used to be allowed at a port of entry to make their claims for asylum. now they re not being allowed to. so they got desperate, tried to cross the river, and drowned. we need to make sure, instead of building facilities like this that cost so much money in these tents behind us, we need to put money into finding the relatives of these children, reuniting families or placing them with relatives that already live in the united states, or other caregivers, quickly vetting them and putting them in those homes, instead of putting them in facilities like this. and we need an immigration judiciary, a court system that has more judges and more support staff, so they can get through ....
I ve been in the u.s. for six days and i ve never been offered a shower. and that s just the start of it. one 12-year-old boy said i m hungry here at clint all the time. i am so hungry that i ve woken up in the middle of the night with hunger. sometimes at other hours. i am too scared to ask the officials here for any more food, even though there is not enough food here for me. that testimony is from migrants held here in the united states. now i want to turn to some of the migrants back in mexico. joining me now is nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez live from juarez, mexico. many families are being forced to wait here due to the remain in mexico policy. tell me about their waits and their options. reporter: hi, ali. well, there is quite a bottleneck here. and there are actually two types of immigrants that are waiting here in juarez, mexico. the first type are those that are part of that policeful known as metering where they are waiting for months at a time to ....
Zero-tolerance policy, the remain in mexico policy, and the metering policy. this metering policy is basically what prompted oscar and valeria to make that risky swim across the river. they have been playing games with people who are coming and trying to seek asylum at our ports of entry. oscar and valeria went to a port of entry and then they were denied an ability to make asylum claim so they got frustrated and tried to cross the river and died because of that. on day one, sorry. on day one, i would do that executive order that would address metering and follow that up in my first 100 days with immigration reform that would honor asylum claims, put undocumented immigrants as long as they haven t committed a serious crime on a pathway to citizenship and we d get to the root cause of the issue which is we need a marshal plan for honduras and guatemala and el salvador so that people can find safety and opportunity at home instead of coming to the united states to seek it. senator ....
Full of bodies. she was over capacity of dead. trump and his team came in knowing about the needs. they chose harshness over readiness. a fence was never the fix to this flow. and they knew it. congress knew too. and they choose not to do what is needed. even this bill, look, i ll take progress. we cannot let to be the enemy of inaction let alone perfection. but it has some potential poison pills that the democrats know could stop it all, and they have to make a political calculation. what do they have to swallow to get this done? maybe oscar and angie s story will resonate more than just numbers. maybe not. maybe not. maybe many of you are still going to say so come the right way. look, the reporting is this father did. they came. they couldn t get in. metered. metering, they call it. ....
Catalyze this congress, this senate, this committee to do something. this is going to echo what you just heard senator johnson say, it is time for congress and the trump white house to do something and stop looking away. michael breen is the president and ceo of human rights first, thanks so much for being with me. i read all your tweets, i want to hear it from you, it was so compelling what you were writing and what it elicited looking at that father and little girl. it s so hard for us to look at that. i know my little girl would have done what that little girl did. when she s scared she wants to be close to daddy. i served combat in two wars, it still hits you. to think this had is i direct result of this administration s policies. that wait you described is the result of metering, it amounts to take a number. and that what ends up happening, we have 20,000 people and human ....