republican senators having a conversation about this. would you stand? tariffs would be tough on the economy but the border is broken, needs to be fixed and if a tariff is what it takes to get mexico to do better on their side of the border i m all for tariffs. trump is not the problem. mexico is the problem with republicans are not the problem, democrats won t vote to change the laws. wide we have 1 million people coming here from central america? they know if you have a card claiming asylum you are entitled to hearing. it takes 3 or 4 years to get a hearing. we don t have enough bed space we let you go. all you have to do is claim asylum. i have a bill that says you have 2 claim asylum in mexico, we should be back if you try to claim asylum on our soil. if you bring a small child, we can t the child back, we are going to change that live 90% of this. but mexico provides buses
correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. what are the experts you ve talked to saying about how things are being done for the children coming across the border? the infectious disease experts i m talking to are saying that simply is not true, that there were some very simple and obvious medical steps that could have been taken here. this boy was taken to the hospital with signs of the flu. the border protection people were very clear about that. he had possible signs of the flu. but from what we re told, he was not given a flu toast. so without that test, he didn t get treatment for the flu and he was sent back to the detention center. so not only is that bad for this boy, obviously in this tragic situation, but he then went back to a detention center where he could ineffefe infect other peo. this boy had a 103 degree fever. at my child s school, we don t let a child back in school after they had a 103 degree fever but he was let back into a detention
guatemala. i spoke to her through a glass window using a prison-like phones. she has been told reunification is imminent. she has been like that for eight years. every day, she asks, where is my child? she knows today is the deadline. the des priration is growing for her and 40 other mothers in there with her in that state of limbo. and that same sentiment was echoed by another father, abraham, who was released from here but told me about that anguish days before reunification happened for him. this is how he described it. those days before you got your child back, how would you describe it? translator: it s difficult to communicate with your family. all we wanted was to have our kids back.
parents getting cell phones and toilet toiletries. from there they quickly go to mcallen terminal and travel wherever the final destination is in the united states. it was there i was able to catch up with abraham, a recently reunified father with his 6-year-old little girl heidi. he tells me he was thankful to god to have her in his arms but he couldn t help but think of those final days leading up to the reunification and that anguish he lived inside this facility. this is how he described it. before you got your child back, how would you describe it? translator: it s very difficult to communicate with your family. every one of us to have our kids
care system. it is really our government inflicting child abuse. the idea that you would separate parents with children, and i m convinced that of the 2,000 children, i think few will be reunited. when a parent is departed, how are they posed to find their child again. one mother knew where her child was, he said if you want your child back, you need to come up with 1$1,500. i believe that a lot of these children will wind unin the foster care system which is already overburdened because of the opiod crisis. this is just egregious. i want to get you guys to