gillespie did i didn t ask you about the accuracy of the ad. that was his strategy. this is where i m going to he can to us, hit immigration as a hot button issue as hard as i can and make people afraid and he lost. the thing is that people didn t believe ed gillespie because it was kind of a strange term for turn for him. i have been dealing with this issue for 12 years now in prince william county. i led the nation in cracking down on illegal immigration. the citizens in my community were concerned that we had a lot of illegal immigrants coming to our community. not a lot of them, but a portion of them committing crimes and they wanted us to do something about it. we have an ms-13 gang problem. 80% of ms-13 gang members are illegal immigrants. would you support a nationwide policy like you implemented in your county where police required to check the identification and immigration status of anyone they arrest? yes, we confirm 100% of everybody who is in the jail, we confi
that is exactly what i saw today. what s different than what is going on in this building than the obama administration is the systematic separation of children from their parents under zero tolerance policy. in this sector alone, there have been over 1100 kids separated from their parents since the policy began. we know 2000 since early april across the entire southern border so it s a massive amount coming out of here. in this building, what happens is parents get ready to leave the building and they don t know if they re going to i.c.e. family detention with their children or if they get to bring their children with them or if they re going to the courthouse to get charged. ultimately they are given a piece of paper, they re taken to the courthouse, their children are left behind here, and they don t know when they are going to see their children ever again frankly. i don t think that, you know, they re supposed to call this phone number and figure out the details and that s somethi
have been separated and they can only see each other once a week. there is no rhyme or reason for what s happening. what we are experiencing right now at the border is not normal immigration pattern, it is not for economic reasons. these are refugees. i would like to remind the american people we set the standard. we crafted the human rights laws the rest of the world practice. the u.n. said what we are doing to children is in violation of their rights. philip cker, what is going on behind the scenes at the white house? on the one hand you have officials like jeff sessions g out there being very clear, the president is blaming democrats which is not true. very important, not true. hr administration policy they can stop with a single phone call. melania trump is saying we have to have policies with heart, quote-unquote. you can see her statement there. she said we need to have a country that follows all laws but governs with heart. where is the president on this and whether this
president planning to go up to capitol hill to meet with republican lawmakers there to try to come up with some sort of legislative solution. but he wants more than just a fix for this particular policy. he wants funding for that border wall. ken dilanian, the other piece of this, a couple pieces, the homeland security secretary kristen nielsen has reportedly been very frustrated with this behind the scenes, but of course in public we showed her tweet earlier where she says we don t have a policy of doing this yet they are doing it. also, frankly, the facilities our law enforcement is going to get overwhelmed pretty quickly by the sheer numbers. and what she meant is that it s not their policy to separate kids. it s their policy to have a zero tolerance policy against immigrants and to arrest everybody crossing illegally. you know what, there are a lot of people in the trump base that support that. it is true most countries around the world have a much less generous policy than we
as well as a humanitarian crisis that threatens to spiral out of control for the president. he said friday he talked to reporters friday on the north lawn of the white house and said he doesn t like the policy of separating children from their parents and he blamed it on democrats. that s not true. it s not the democrats fault as we have said. and the white house is grappling with over the weekend how to deal with it and they don an easy answer for it. kellyanne conway, counselor to the president, really struggled on meet the press earlier this morning to defend this policy. she said as a catholic, as a mother she doesn t like to see what s happening there. we are hearing more and more about what s happening inside those detention centers like with jacob s report. my colleagues at the post had a story this weekend about a young girl separated from her parents in tears, very emotional about it, and the workers, relief workers inside the detention facilities are prohibited from cou