The Senate voted to include in the $3.5 trillion budget resolution an amendment banning the release of migrants arriving at the southern border who do not have a negative coronavirus test.
programs. cbp provides migrants with pp from the moment they re taken into custody and migrants are required to keep masks on at all times including when they re in the process of being released. our other protocol is there s illness, they re referred to local health systems for appropriate testing, diagnosis, isolation and treatment. that s our process. dr. marty makary from johns hopkins school of public health. a fox news contributor news medical contributor. welcome back. she says when they can, they use alternate detention programs for people that come across covid mossive, which is not true because they re given over to catholic charities and they put them in hotels. they re totally unsupervised. jen psaki says they re told to wear masks. none of this stuff is happening. that is all untrue because we ve seen it first hand in some of these border cities where people and migrants are going into
so, a major update and that s what this is, a merit system and a heart system is long overdue. lisa: that was president trump unveiling his immigration overall plan yesterday. democrats calling the plan a nonstarter. congresswoman omar sang the u.s. should abolish ice instead. house speaker nancy pelosi criticizing the language of the proposal. listen to this. they are seeing families about merit? that most people come to united states in history of our country are without merit? because they don t have an engineering degree? we need to abolish i.c.e. and end all inhumane deportation and detention programs. lisa: s congresswoman omar at renewed calls to abolish i.c.e., president trump signals he actually aims to bolster deportation efforts, tweeting this morning, all people illegally coming into the united states and i will be removed from our country at a later date as the buildup of removal forces and the laws are changed. please do not make yourself too comfortable y
asylum claims to have been heard. the department of homeland security, they say they simply cannot deal with this massive influx. that the demand is just a way they have not been able to meet the demand. our ankle bracelets really the best solution that you can come up with? in previous years the government has used ankle bracelets and other things like caseworkers a check up on people were going to asylum hearings. and a lot of different programs a call alternative to detention programs. they have had a 90 or 99 percent success rate in terms of getting people to show up for court hearings and complying. and the good thing is they are cheaper, then holding them in government detention where the government has to pay for health care and housing and everything. it is not 100 percent effective no solution is. but if we re going to look at something that minimizes the chance of the folks dying while
heather: mollie tibbetts executes killer is due in court today, christian rivera will be arraigned in the college student s tough, rivera led police to mollie tibbetts s body which was discovered a cornfield a month after she went missing in brooklyn, iowa. the mexican man was in the country illegally for four years. meantime new numbers show the alarming number of illegal immigrant families who never show up to court. ice officials a 28% of families in detention programs skipped hearings in the first ten months of fiscal year 2018. hearings from migrants currently have a backlog of 700,000 cases. donald trump headed to the carolinas to survey damage from hurricane florence.