grid capability. they can be used for nuclear blackmail. and even further, not only would iran get these up as it would be a lesson to every would be nuclear state in the world.if you just have patience enough, you can wear the united states down.the notion that we can accept you work with 800 nuclear capability just means that we will forever be at their mercy. quickly vassar, what with potentially risky now if we say okay, we will go in with some strategic military strikes to take out his nuclear weapons to possibly take him out or at least remove him from power. what is the risk? are we going to wind up with some new people s lives gone and south korea, in seoul because we make that move? quickly after this, though not dead americans? no i mean i m just saying
trenches. one of the students you work with, sing sing prison. that s where i believe mercy college has put that together, but they are now your group has expanded. is it vassar, mercy nia, our first aid school. you have a couple hundred students now in correctional facilities. talk about the facilities and classes and academics you are able to offer and how you hope to have these men and women leave with. we started with just maximum security facilities but as they began to get closer to going home and they become eligible, they wanted them to not sacrifice staying in a maximum security facility. we used it to launch our own programs. we re in three mediums and two maximum security facilities using all the men and women that as well been through it to help run it until they go home. do you find the inmates to be good students? amazing.
they put a statement out that totally contradicts what we heard here tonight. that congressman joins me now from washington. congressman, thank you for being here, first of all. and i want to give you an opportunity to respond to those members of your constituency who said that you told your constituents that there would be no immigrant kids sent to their community and that, in fact, was not true. how do you respond to that? that was the information that we had been provided by the department of health and human services. they later corrected that. what happened was that it the organization in vassar had been negotiating a subcontract with a chicago-based entity. when we found out that information, we simply put that information out. so, you know, this is one of those situations where everybody needs to dial down the hyperbole and put away their conspiracy theories and understand that what we have here is a true humanitarian crisis that we re trying to work through. and we need to
conspiracy. it was called an invasion. we re talking about 12 to 14-year-olds. are those kids still going to be coming to vassar? we still don t know. this goes back to some of the early confusion. there has been no decision made. i want to make sure i m clear. if that is the case, that it s determined that this facility could provide shelter and safety for children who are at risk of great harm, at risk of being put into sex trafficking, for example, or being subjected to violence by drug lords, we should accept them. i agree with pope francis. this is at first a humanitarian crisis. they may not be american citizens, but they are human beings, and it s a long-standing part of our history that when there are children at risk, no matter who they are, no matter what they are, we are willing to do even this small part that we could play in making sure they re safe. that s really what we re talking about. and then the larger issues of immigration, sure, we need to deal with those, but w
unfortunately, many of those voices back home and many of the people at those protests are from outside my district, but many of the protests are mimicking or parodying speech from, i think, irresponsible members of congress who have taken upon this opportunity to create political theater that they think helps them in the november elections. unfortunately, many of those republicans have no intention of trying to solve this problem. they think they benefit from this problem, which is a really pathetic and cynical approach to take. they should leave these kids out of their political theater. yeah, indeed. i sat and watched the whole video of that meeting where people came up and spoke. you had people saying everything from that these kids were from the middle east, that they were bringing in diseases. there was a woman who had a conspiracy theory that the kids would be put into the schools in vassar. just every range of sort of