to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you welcome back. i m in for alex witt. president trump escalating his call for merit-based immigration after he was forced to retreat from his policy of separating children from their parents at the u.s./mexico border. using angel families to once again channel his vision for who should be allowed into the country. we want people in our country based on merit, not based on a draw where other countries put their absolutely worst in a bin and they start drawing people. congressman quigley of illinois. great to have you with me. good morning. let me start by asking what
i yield back. the gentleman yields back. i yield back he says. by the way speaking of that audio, cnn is learning that the cries of those children separated from their parents is having an impact south of the border. crossing in may did not indicate that people have been deterred by the u.s. policy of separating children from their parents. so for the third month now, border patrol agents in may arrested more than 50,000 people, but now there are signs word may be getting through. leyla santiago went down to the border with guatemala and found some mothers were actually changing their plans to head to the u.s. because of now this crack towdown on families. reporter: many were already aware, had seen videos of families being separated. one mother noted the audio that
magazine. what s going on and where is the hill on all of this? reporter: it s another about face from the president who early this week tweeted that now is the time for congress, as he put it, to fix the country s broken m aggregation system. but just this morning he s now saying that republicans should hold off, should wait until after the midterm election. so hears one in a series of tweets. republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congress women and women in november. dems are playing games and have no intention of doing anything to solve this decades old problem. so the president is in effect acknowledge willing the fact that republicans don t have the votes to pass these bills. he s accusing democrats of being obstructionists. but what s true is that republicans who, as you know, control all the powers all the levers of power here in washington are running out of options for how to stem the political damage resulting f
we ve been getting confusing and conflicting messages from the trump administration today about the president s revised policy of separating immigrant families. let s bring in cnn s chris comeau, anchor of comeau prime time. the president signed his executive order yesterday but it doesn t reunite families already separated and no one seems to know what it means going forward. how do you decipher all of this? i think it s pretty obvious, wolf, that the executive order was a stunt. it s not legally operative or necessary because this was a policy choice. he could have changed it by tweet or a phone call. this has always been about the illusion of legalities, that the democrats put laws in place that tied his hands. untrue. that he needed to change it only through a legal mechanism. untrue. the biggest problem is that there is this perception that
on has failed as expected. meantime, the so-called compromise bill, phil is expecting will get a vote tomorrow. we know the president has signed this executive order stopping his own policy of separating families at the border but a catastrophic question is this. what now happens to the more than 2,300 children who were taken from their children and currently being held in shelters without mom and dad. nothing we read in that executive order and nothing we read from the administration since explains howhi takes care of that problem. polo sandoval in the small bordertown of mcallen. the order doesn t say where the families would be detained and it doesn t say whether children will continue to be while the locations are built. what happens now? adding to all of that uncertainty, brooke, is the question of whether or not we ll