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Wasn't necessarily going to get cooperation from congress, the numbers started going back up. we were hitting crisis level, starting last year department of homeland security is warning about this while lots of people in this government were saying it is manufactured crisis, it isn't real. well those people are now coming to the border and realize we do have a real crisis. the border patrol is strapped, i.c.e. is strapped and even hhs. >> there is a crisis. humanitarian crisis at the border. kevin mcaleenan reportedly did not support the raids because undocumented parents could be separated fr...

Keep people divided to the maximum extent possible and get up his base and take people's eyes off the other things going on, the fact that so many middle class and working class people are not doing well in america, the fact he's about to pass a new nafta treaty which will continue to hurt americans. these are the kinds of things that trump does, he baits and switch all of the time. it is a bait-and-switch move and what it will do is get a lot of people angry because they realize that they're being lied to about their lives and it is a purposeful attempt to divide people. >> i want to talk abo...

Said the department is not taking sufficient steps to address the overcrowding and prolonged detention. isn't this a shame, a blight on the united states government in we are treating -- we, because i'm -- >> i understand. i understand. >> we're treating people this way. >> first of all, it is shameful for congress. and the reason is -- and we can prove it. because last month when they were willing to address this same problem for children, we succeeded in addressing it in one month. one month. back in february, the trump administration asked for more i.c.e. detention beds. the reason you see ...

I was at the same sector of the border two weeks ago. these facilities were built to catch adult mexican males and process them and return them to mexico typically on the same day. when i was down there, i saw children frankly well cared for but in space clearly not designed for that. so the border patrol in the el pa paso sector is not only dealing with numbers, but if you just go back to last october, they were in the number six sector on the border and now they're number two. so we get all sorts of problems that their contending with at the same time without congressional help. >> last ques...

People think dangerous criminals when they hear criminal, like the kind you just talked about from maryland. but -- but you also mean people in this country illegally when you say criminals. >> so everybody understands, coming across the border is illegal. >> that is what i'm talking about. >> when we talk about prioritization for removal, we're not utilizing that. we're using other crimes that you would normally think of. >> yes. >> so you said this month if people know the raids are coming, that is a quote, threat to officer safety and there are people at i.c.e. concerned about that. but pre...