Last year Catholic leaders warned that the close quarters of detention and lack of health care put the detainees and personnel at risk, and now a report shows COVID infections at 20 times the general population.
american culture, and this idea became more and more prevalent long before donald trump ever took office. i mean, look, that context is so important because it does provide insight, in the article you interview your mother, and it s really about how she reconciles her faith as a good christian person with the actions of donald trump. you bring up things like the migrant detentions, and she doesn t defend them. but distill for us how she does rationalize on behalf of so many evangelicals how someone who doesn t live the faith she does is her political savior if you will. right, so i mean, i think one thing that really interested me in this article and made me want to write it is that i had a lot of family who voted for trump very begrudgingly. they were always going to vote for the republican candidate, but they really didn t think that trump represented their you know, he didn t seem like
york. what sets this plan apart, if anything, m.j.? reporter: well, john, the timing is certainly notable that she is putting out an immigration plan now given that what s happening at the border, the treatment of migrants, has created so much controversy lately. it is the reason or part of the reason at least that she and so many other candidates visited the homestead migrant detention facility around the first debate. this is a pretty detailed plan so just a couple of highlights from warren s new immigration plan. she says that he wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings. this was an idea championed by julian castro that she said she supports. she wants to reduce the number of migrant detentions. she s also talking about, and this is interesting, creating an independent immigration court system that is essentially separate from the doj. the idea being that that would help prevent conflicts of interest from the trump administration. she is also talking about adding protection
resources, the schools, the health care, law enforcement, state agencies. reporter: and important to note they are not just dumping them migrants into florida or other states. they re going to go to processing centers and this all speaks to the overwhelming situation at the border. the largest number of migrant detentions since 2007. but that flip on florida, as opposed to what we saw with california and elsewhere in texas just goes to show the importance of that state and ron desantis the president s allies in that state to this administration and really to the upcoming election. it goes to show that what florida wants, florida gets, politically. kenditz. as long as it has a republican governor there in ron desantis. thanks to matt bradley at the white house. so all of this coming just days after president trump unveiled his new immigration plan at the rose garden. a plan which includes more u.s. dollars for the border wall, increased security at ports of entry and english and c