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>> if congress had dealt with this in an adult way we would have answers to all of those questions and instead as it floated up in litigation and the fact of the matter is, the supreme court in the early 1990's assumed as did the justice department that they have substantive due process to a certain level of humane detention here and then they basically say, you guys now work it out, figure it out. and the problem is back in 1997 when the decree was entered which now has the force of law, the problem was -- was one level. now it's like -- it's bigger issue than it was before and we don't have ...

Through litigation. so basically what we need is congress to say here are the rules and the conditions of confinement, the conditions of detention that should apply to minor aliens. they won't do that. so they delegated to the justice department. and what we having is these activist litigations where there is a discovery of substantive due process rights of minor children to a certain level of treatment when they were here. as humane people, we can all sympathize with that. and agree with it. but it's not an adult policy if you're going to say we are going to give these people these rights and...

Why? >> it doesn't give anybody due process. once you enter the united states, once you cross whether you are a citizen or not, you have the same constitutional rights. you have the right to due process. you have the right to confront your cases as an attorney to advocate for these cases, its externally difficult when you're on such a short time i because you're being given credit for time served which is usually a good deal or let's try to fight your case now these individuals are making statements that could be adverse to their immigration interests. >> laura: you don't have the exact same c...

Once you enter the united states, once you cross whether you are a citizen or not, you have the same constitutional rights. you have the right to due process. you have the right to confront your cases. as an attorney to advocate for these cases, it's extremely difficult when you're on such a short timeline because you're being given credit for time served which is usually a good deal, or let's try to fight your case. and now these individuals are making statements that could be averse to their immigration interests. >> laura: you don't have the exact same constitutional panoply of rights as yo...