their life. and this kind of trauma will have lasting effects on many of them, tragic enduring harm for these children. we should have them in mind and put them first. you said earlier that this policy in your words, quote, reminds us of the cattle cars of nazi germany when children were separated from their parents. i know you re very sensitive to this issue. you told me last year your father escaped nazi germany when he was only 17 years old. but tell us why you are drawing this comparison to the holocaust and what is happening along the u.s.-mexico border with the young kid and parents right now. obviously, wolf, there are some very critical differences and i and i don t mean to compare the trump administration to nazi germany by any means but the stories of the children being marched away from their
being denied access to their parents? that man in the white house with an executive order can resolve that. i would think you can agree with reverend graham that there is not a justification for those kid to be separated from their parent. we are a better country than that. laura: what i think we have to do to solve this problem, the president wants to do this, we have to have a normalized process that is not ripe with fraud, notom just someone who comes to the border and says if i bring a child, whether the child is my own or someone i found along the way in one of the cattle cars that the drug smugglers and human trafficking are bringing people into? can t allow people to house together and come for your hearing in two years.
are they being denied access to their parents? and guess what. that man in the white house with an executive order can resolve that. and i would think that you can agree that there is not a justification for those kids to be separated from their parents. we re a better country than that. what i think we have to do to solve this problem, i think the president wants to do this, we have to have a normalized process that is not rife with fraud, that is not just someone who comes to the border and says, gee, if i bring a child, whether the child is my own or my child or someone i found along the way in one of the cattle cars that the drug smugglers are bringing people into. i mean, you can t just allow someone to come into the county with a child and say, okay, we re going to house you together and then we ll release you in the united states and come appear at your hearing in
that the kurdish checkpoint had been closed. kurdish peshmerga had protected cattle cars right up to august the sixth but then suddenly withdrew with awful consequences for the inhabitants for father not jean and for his ancient books. said we didn t know where to go and so we got out of our cars and a little girl came up to me he said father father look over there to the right is it it was early dawn and the sun was just rising is it was and i saw hundreds of black and white flags the flags the baseline explain what was it like that that the man or in their vehicles and ready to attack it s over a certain and we re going to die together but suddenly we heard that the front wheel was open. and we were allowed to walk us through the checkpoint but. we just took the bare essentials with us whatever we could carry sickie puts you fortunately i had youngsters with. whenever i saw any of them with empty hands i
describe it i don t think unless you ve been there you kind of earned the right probably to write about it if you ve been there but i think you haven t really really earned the right to write about it if you haven t been there. and i had to sort it was difficult because when i wrote from zagreb i had to go to this place this awful concentration camp. in bosnia called years and verge and. i felt i had to get permission from the people who had died there so i sort of stood in the sounds melodramatic but that s how it felt or stood in the cattle the the wagons transported the people on the train. the train is there so you can actually stand in these cattle cars and feel what it must have been like so i felt i had to sort of you know pray almost to the people and say look if i m right about