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Challenge to the family separation policy. 17 states and district of columbia sued the trump administration in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families, also led by washington state and all democratic attorneys general, claims the separation policy violates the fifth amendment, guarantees due process, equal protection and asylum laws. talk about some of this stuff. joining us, reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so the trump administration feeling a blow to one of the policies when a california federal judge ordered famil...

Media who criticized this policy, calling it a muslim ban, saying it was unnecessary, saying that it was racist, saying that it was zenphobic, saying that all those people were wrong and in fact the courts agreed with him. to be clear, the version they agreed with was very far from the original ban that he put into effect when he first took office, and that sort of shock and awe series of executive orders. this was something that various agencies across the government spent weeks and weeks building criteria, trying to come up with objective sets of things they wanted countries to do so they co...

The feds its address, cell phone number of the parents if they have one, its last name. this is a massive spider web. >> brian, you've got children as young as 9 months who have been separated. and so the administration is conspicuously silent as to how they're going to reunite. let's remember something else. this is a migrant issue. it is not a crisis. and what they've done with the separation policy, one of the things that's the most stunning aside from the heartstrings aspect of it and the humanitarian aspect, think about the tens of millions of dollars that are being spent for these detent...

The teacher is critical of the separation policy and quit her job last friday. provided msnbc the video. we don't know the status of every child and we don't know if they came as a result of the zero tolerance policy. joining me now, msnbc -- she returned from mexico and spending a lot of time talking to the kids and families. what did you find? >> i was able to visit a shelter and speak to kids who were separated from their parents for five to six days. i have seen symptoms that you would see in kids in war zones. the syrian border, my home country of venezuelan. symptoms of kids being remove...

Rachel maddow show was recorded last week by a teacher from centers in new york. the center is a little different from what we've been seeing. the children stay here only during the day and sleep at the homes of foster parents at night. e teacher who wants to remain anonymous says she started investigating after seeing an influx of children coming alone to the center and discovered many of them were separated from the parents at the board e. the woman is critical of the separation policy and quit her job friday. she describes the interactions between teachers and children saying we're not allo...