pointed out on father s day talking about a policy that rips kids away from their fathers and let s not mince words about this. the administration has been very clear that cruelty is a policy here because they want kids ripped away because that will be a disincentive for people to come up to try to cross the border. so zero tolerance becomes zero humanity and the republicans, you had there were two more signatures you needed on a discharge petition that would have allowed votes on far more humane immigration bills. there are as you said, the fienstein bill, very clear bills that could have stopped this. instead they ll be voting on watered down bills that keep trying to make concessions to the administration because paul ryan doesn t want to pass
whole class that people are immune from immigration or enforcement. he said this past week it was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance. he s back. steven miller. your thoughts. absolutely right. john kelly floated this and i started sounding the alarm the moment they floated this because they re not playing around. they have a zero tolerance because of a policy they implemented, not congress. but i want to go back. we ve been working with organizations on the ground. tornillo is the first camp where they brought in 98 beds for children. they re hoping to expand it to 200 beds in the next week or so. and they purposely chose a place 45 minutes outside of el paso in the middle of nowhere where they couldn t get cameras, where they couldn t get witnesses and today they re marching. what do people need? they need lawyers. they need people and they need lawyers to basically flood just
capeheart. i ll let you react to that first. you have kellyanne conway back this morning. this is the new line, the rnc s talking points. it s the new line from the white house. they want credit for the policy at the southern border because their base likes it but they want the blame to go to the cra. you know, i ll tell you, joy, it s so difficult to watch these all of the statements that anyone from this administration tries to make in support of this policy. because it s just absurd. kellyanne conway has a difficult job and she has to go out on behalf of the president. the same thing for sarah huckabee sanders doing the same thing on friday. how people who are mothers could stand for this lie that the administration is telling, and it s just part of a strategy. basically the trump administration is holding children hostage and saying to democrats, if you pay for the border wall that i want, i will reunite these children with their parents. it s a strategy. it s horrible. it s a
support her bill to bar the taking of children. no republicans and then you have this republican bill, this house bill that gives wide latitude to the department of homeland security to detain entire families. it reads there is no presumption that an alien child who is not an accompanied alien child should not be detained and all such determination should be at the discretion of secretary of homeland security. that would overrule a court agreement put in place that limits how the government can keep children in detention. essentially it would allow ice to detain families as long as they want indefinitely. that is the supposed fix that steve bannon says is too kind. your thoughts. pretty humane, isn t it? i think i have a higher opinion of a bunch of the people who voted for donald trump than steve bannon does, because this the cruelty of this policy, the violation of family values, here we are as jonathan
how does one feel when your child is taken from you? translator: i cried the whole way here. it hurts to not have my son and i don t know anything about him. welcome back to am joy. heart wrenching stories and images of thousands of children being separated from their parents at the border are sparking outrage around the country. the white house is doubling down that it s the democrats who are responsible. also at times ironically justifying their policy as biblical but some democratic lawmakers are fighting back today, going to tour facilities where migrant children are being held and leading protests against the policy. joining me now by phone is texas representative beto o rourke who will lead a march to a tent camp in texas that s housing immigrant children. representative o rourke, congressman, thank you so much