Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 516 of the Trump Administration, and we have breaking news from the Associated Press tonight about those Migrant Children on the border taken from their families. The a. P. Puts it this way. Quote, Trump Administration officials have been sending babies and other Young Children forcibly separated from their parents at the u. S. mexico border to at least three what are called tenderage shelters in south texas, the Associated Press has learned. We will have more on that later on in this broadcast. Meantime, the president remains firm about sticking to the zerotolerance policy of separating these families at the border. He said this tonight, quote, Homeland Security secretary nielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete and nasty laws which force family separation. We want heart and
Immigrants can find out if their children are okay. What im describing is how the Trump Administrations zero tolerance policy is being put into practice along the southern u. S. Border. At least one person at the white house is not happy about it, first lady. A spokeswoman for Melania Trump te cnn that mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together and achieve successful immigration reform. She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart. Let me remind you that her husband, the president , has expressed compassion for children before. It was more than a year ago when he claimed that seeing suffering babies in syria drove him to order military action there. It crossed a lot of lines for me. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, were a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was. That cross
Youre watching on television this week is a political tactic obviously. But thats not all it is. Some thing else is going on, formally responsible people l suddenly sound like extremists, possibly because they have become extremists. The left is no longer working to convince those who disagree with their views, they are working to destroy anyone that stands in their way. In this is total war to them. Just one year ago, public figures did not throw comparisons at their political opponents. On the rare occasions when they did, the adl scolded them and they apologized rightly. Now it seems like every time you turn on cable news there is some democrat likening somebody he disagrees with to hitler. This is the United States of america, it isnt nazi germany. Bottom line, donald trump looks like hitler in the nazi germany. This is a policy that is in inhumane, they are tactics used through history by the worst purveyors of pure evil including slave traders, including nazis and terrace. Tucker
Enforcement works. Now tonight, donald trump and Congressional Republicans have very few answers about how to fix these problems that are still the top story in the country that donald trump created. Now, most of these recently separated children do remain alone, but we are starting to get stories of some of the exceptions. Sources telling the intercept that this video shows what may very well be the first mother and child reunited. This is in texas, and since the Trump Administration started splitting up families in may. [ speaking Foreign Language ] that is, of course, one story were seeing. That is one mother and one child. But i want to be clear for context, that is the exception among over 2,000 families split apart by trumps order. Some children already transported thousands of miles away from their border crossing, like the girls in this video, brought to new york city as weve been reporting under the cover of night. Meanwhile, sources close to the first lady say she has now com
Were covering every angle of this story like only cnn can. Boris sanchez is at the white house with what the Trump Administration is saying. Were starting on the border with Paolo Sandoval and diane gallagh gallagher. Dozens of members of congress are visiting the facilities around you right now. Tell us what youre expecting, what theyre expecting to see. Victor, they are on the ground already. This is the latest wave of legislators who have travelled to what is one of the busiest sectors in the country when it comes to the apprehensions of people crossing the border illegally. Lawmakers you may see in the southernmost tip of texas as weve heard from border offic l officials they lead the way in apprehensions across the country in this particular region and also prosecutors as weve heard yesterday. 262 increase in prosecution of these illegal entry cases, misdemeanor cases that we didnt often see, because of zero tolerance. That mean those courtrooms, were seeing bigger numbers there a