and attorney raul reyes. kiersten nielson walked back the reports that she wanted to resign, she issue as statement that says the president is rightly frustrated that the existing loopholes and lack of evidence prevent the administration from fully securing the border. ma raul, do we have existing loopholes that are preventing the southern border from being her metically sealed. what the administration and dhs is calling loopholes, that is the law. we have things in place under immigration law for asylum. for people, refugee law that, that were deliberately created by congress. and i just want to remind people that jumping-off point for john kelly s comments was the crisis we have at the southern border. they re trying to defend this indefensivible policy of separating women and children
were able to assimilate. but when it comes to brown and black people, it s a problem. heartlessness and hatefulness, they re taking out trials to see who is going to be the director and assistant director. nielson, her statement that she was going to resign, she almost resigned, it wasn t over the policies. it was over the fact that she had been publicly humiliated by donald trump in a meeting. she doesn t care about taking away children from their mothers. okay? mine this whole thing, and along with the concept of building a wall you know i come from the national security side of it. look, we could, general kelly couldn t seal a border between afghanistan and pakistan with terrorists flying back and forth across it every day. you re not going to be able to secure it. this is not the soviet union. we don t put up iron curtains, we have things called laws, people own property down there. and they don t seem to care at all about it. this is just let s be honest
and are shifting it to a debate about assimilation, which has nothing to do with asylum law. asylum law doesn t mandate education and skills, it just mandates whether or not you re suffering percent indicatiosecu. dangerous for to you go home. they know this policy, inhumane it s been in effect for a while and this administration last year, the new york times reported they ve already lost 1500 children that they placed out with sponsors, or agencies lost track of them. they don t know where they are that s 1500 children that are missing. just for those who weren t up on this earlier in the week. this is jeff sessions, kiersten nielson is the successor to john kelly, who was the department of homeland director, who implemented these policies. jeff sessions, ag, very much about stopping immigration from certain parts of the world. here he is talking about separating families on monday. if you smuggle illegal
it ebbs and flows over time. the trends are definitely down. but it s also spring and that s when you have spikes in immigration during this spring. the crisis at the border is not even an immigration crisis, that s a humanitarian crisis. they have presented it as an invasion. people swarming over the boarder to threaten society. where it s not that. they have shifted that whole story. and the conventional argument doesn t work. this says something about what s being signaled from the republican party. there s a great quote on twitter. when you hear kirsten nielson saying i almost quit. it s like grumble bragging. they ring in eh never going to quit, because they re in line with the policies, they re pretending they re resisting them, when if fact they have no problem kicking brown or plaque people out of the country. this story has been heard before. this is 1939 and you know the america first movement, the isolationist movement in the preworld war ii area.
of 2017, that the u.s. intelligence committee released a report concluding that russia favored donald trump in the 2016 election. and meddled on his behalf. but president trump s homeland security secretary, kiersten nielson says she is unfamiliar with that report. secretary to that point, do you have any reason to doubt the january 2017 intelligence community assessment that said it was vladimir putin who tried to meddle in this election to help president trump win? i do not believe that i ve seen that conclusion. what i do that the specific intent was to help president trump win. i m not aware of that. but i do generally have no reason to doubt any intelligence assessment. except i just did with my previous statement. just last week you ll remember, the senate intelligence committee announced it supported the intel community s assessment that russia intervened to help donald trump in the 2016 election. while speaking to reporters