Illegally. His friend undocumented herself, is pleading for vargas release. Vargas friend tonya chavez is joining me now. How are you doing . My heart is broken because im an undocumented immigrant at myself and facing deportation at this moment. Lets talk about jose first and then your case. What happened to jose vargas . Were you there and was it clear why officers were handcuffing him . No. We didnt know. We got a phone call about 8 30 that jose had been arrested and at that point in time we started to mobilize our community to be able to come and show appreciation for him because the reason why he came to mcallen, texas, to the rio grand valley, was to show support for undocumented immigrants coming in from Central America to save their lives. I think its fair that we return the favor to him. He didnt know that he was coming to an area that is highly militarized. He did not know there was airport Border Patrol at the airport security. Hes very researched. Hes a filmmaker. Its hard
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus meet with officials. First, perspective here. Perspective you need to hear and one perhaps we have not heard from enough. This is from a person on the front lines, not at the border, but in the immigration courtroom. Joining me is attorney rebeccaal salman, representing more than 1,000 undocumented children in the united states. She works for the access to Law Foundation in atlanta. So rebecca, welcome. Thank you so much. And is that roughly correct . 1,000, 1,000plus kids . We have a floating group of kids that we represent, but we have seen an increase recently. So, i mean, they have seen an increase since i really started tracking in october. But its this past month and a half that i think surge is the appropriate word of these kids crossing over. Why so much more now . I wish i knew the answer. I think that what weve investigated, what weve heard from our clients is its theyre literally fleeing from insecurity. From Gang Activity. From t
Is what are we doing here . In a country that was built and replenished by i am fwrapts, in a country that was built on the back of cheap labor, what are we doing here . Is this what were about . I look at those kids, you know. And i think of the future journalists or doctors. What if we had said back in the ellis island days, oh, no, italy, dont send your people. No, ireland, after the potato famine, dont send your kids. We would be a very different place. A very different place. I hope that your film ignites a conversation. But thats only one step, right, in fixing this that is broken. Jose vargas, i thank you so much. Im excited for everyone else to get to watch your film. Its called documented prem r premiers this sunday 9 00 p. M. Eastern here on cnn. Thank you. And we continue on hour two and we continue on hour two here. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com a new twist in the case of the 12yearold michigan boy who vanished from his home for nearly two weeks but suddenly turned up,
Police have arrested his wife, the childs step america not his biological mother, but on an unrelated charge. What does this all mean . Alexandra field is in detroit with the latest. This has a lot of twists coming us very quickly. Reporter it really does, chris, and police are relying on this 12yearold boy, Charlie Bothuell, to help them understand how he could have possibly wound up in this basement here in detroit. We know that charlies been checked out by a team of child psychologists. Hes also been speaking to investigators. They say they are getting good information from him, but theres a lot more that they still need to know. 12yearold Charlie Bothuell is with his mother this morning after suddenly being found in his fathers home wednesday, 11 days after disappearing. We have not done anything wrong to my son, nothing but to try to help. Reporter on thursday charlies stepmother was taken into custody for a probation violation on unrelated weapons charge as the boys father, charl
To hash this out. Im told behind closed doors the president made the calculation republican also attack him if he waits a month. Lets do it now. Go on offense and define the terms of this debate. He will try to justify this move tonight by saying republicans failed to act on the last four years. What he will not mention tonight is democrats failed to act when they had control of the house, senate, and white house in 2009, 2010. And by the way, even before this speech has been given, two senate democrats, not one but two donley of indiana and manchin of West Virginia come out and said its a mistake and end run around congress. Bill . The president ial will go it las vegas tomorrow. Thats where he will sign the executive action, i understand. You will be with him, correct . No. Im going to stay here and anchoring special report, filling in for bret baier, i think the bottom line is he is going do that because is he going to sell it they know its a tough policy so here is he. Here is the