increased numbers at our southern border. they sent a team down this week to ask about whether or not there were enough teachers there or what the accommodations were for kids? how about the team ask what are we doing to stop it and turn these migrants back and tell them this isn t the way to come to america? dana: i really think we need to focus on the humanitarian condition. is it more humane to say do not come. let us get our systems in place but do not come right now. you will be turned away. don t take the journey. don t undertake it. try to deal with your situation better at home rather than forcing them out on the trail. bill: a lot of policies in the trump years have been turned around in 60 days. surprisingly the white house sent the senior team down to the border over the weekend. spent a few days there and we re told through the white house just yesterday that they hope to meet with president biden sometime this week. that was the phrase that was used yesterday
They dont know yet how far with this. But people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. People in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. And with americans. And so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. Cuba plays a very Important Role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. So it opens a new market for american producers is good for the American Business with the
congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. First of all, were always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. He got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. Thats wonderful news. What is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonderful american pat
hhs the federal entity designed to handle children. border patrol because of the flores settlement is supposed to have the children ready to transfer within 72 hours. right now they re having them ready within 42 hours. but ice and hhs doesn t have the capacity to take folks. and it s unfortunate when many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted against an amendment i put forbward about $2 billion more to deal with this crisis they voted against that. i tried to get 100 more judicial teams. we have 900,000 people still trying to get through the system. we should be able to get an immigration case done within nine months. they voted against judicial but isn t the issue here that democrats have not with your
congressman, good afternoon. you described the conditions at the border and the tent facility in texas where children are being detained from this family separation policy we have seen imposed by the white house. tell us about what you saw, what needs to change and what prompted this, why are you to sang ri, sir? well, first and foremost this was a facility that was started off at around 500 beds, grew to almost 4,000. currently there s 2,800 kids in this tent facility. the problem that i have with this is that this facility is supposed to close by the end of this month on december 31. the contractor wants to leave, but hhs doesn t have a plan to address the 2,800 kids that are in this facility. 1,300 of those kids have an identifying sponsor, the sponsor has done the fingerprinting, provided all the paperwork they
when people are in our custody, we should treat them humanely and respectively. this is a symptom of a broken immigration system. in a broken system, you shouldn t be resorting to kids and your previous segment, somebody was asking a bunch of questions. some of the questions i have, what were some of the taurls being discussed versus this current policy? how does a mom or a dad figure out where their kid is? i think we ve all seen that one-page document that says call a 1-800-number? really, that s how someone s going to find out where their child is and if their kid is okay? these are a lot of questions and partly hhs doesn t always know what doj is doing, doj doesn t know what the department of homeland security is doing. there is a big problem especially when it comes to taking care of kids. the president seems to think you guys have to solve it. we ll see what you and your