under those circumstances, we would detain the parent in an appropriate facility separate from the child. what has changed is that we know longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law. everyone is subject to prosecution. when dhs refers a case against a parent or legal guardian for criminal prosecution, the parent or legal guardian will be placed into the u.s. marshals service custody for pretrial determination pursuant to an order by a federal judge. any accompanied child will be transferred to the department of health and human services and will be reclassified as an unaccompanied alien child. that is in accordance with the tv pra, a law that was passed by congress. and a following court order, neither which are actions the trump administration has taken. if an american work to commit a crime anywhere in the united states, they would go to jail and they would be separated from their family. this is not a controversial
investigation and that report validates the claims he s made repeatedly. reporter: the governor of massachusetts, a republican, reversed course and ordered the national guard not to send assets or personnel to the southwest border. he said the actions of the federal government are resulting in the inhumane treatment of children. would you comment on that and have you seen any impact on border operations? i haven t seen his comments specifically but i would tell him he should call every member of congress, those in his own state and asked to fix a loss. there is one body that gets to create legislation, and it s congress. our job is to enforce it and we would like to see congress fix it. that s why the president has repeatedly called on them to work with him to do just that. reporter: what was the president s reaction to laura bush s piece in the washington post ? i didn t speak directly with
border. apprehension without detention and removal is not border security. we have repeatedly called on congress to close these loopholes. i myself have met with as many members that have been willing to meet with me. i testified seven times. i will continue to make myself available to ask that they work with us to solve this crisis. yet the voices most loudly criticizing the enforcement of our current laws are those whose policies created this crisis. and whose policies perpetrate it. in particular, we need to reform the three major loopholes. let me quickly walk you through them. first, we need to amend the 2008 trafficking victims prevention reauthorization act of a which is this law encourages families to put children in the hands of smugglers to bring them alone on this dangerous trek northward and make no mistake. we have talked about this befor before. this track is dangerous and deadly. second, we need to reform our asylum laws to end systemic
what he actually said closely mirrored what they first lady said. he said he hates seeing this. he called on congress for months he has called on democrats in congress to work with him. the president isn t trying to kick the can down the road. he is trying to work with congress to get real solutions and fix the problem. jeff. i will take your question since you and your network accuse me of not wanting to be here. reporter: why did you decide to have secretary nielsen answer questions instead of you? i am here answering questions as well but i thought it was important for the secretary as one of the primary experts on the process of the things going on, to come out here and have the chance to speak to you and for you to be able to ask questions directly of her and the leaders in this administration. but i am standing here in front of you. reporter: with the president signed a bill would
pompeo s comments and refer you to the state department and department of defense. thanks, have a great day. jesse: that was white house press secretary sarah sanders who had some help from the department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen fielding questions. very intense. the policies of separating families at the southern border. greg, i think the main point for both of them was that the people in congress complaining so much about the effects of the policies were the ones that created the policies that created the chaos on the southern border in the first place. greg: what is frustrating, if you look at the press conference, if you look on twitter over the weekend, there is a lot of opinion. there is so much opinion, no solution. an opinion is not a solution. i don t think you can find a single person who does not like this. no one likes it. your laura bush writing something. you have the first lady writing something. everybody says it s bad but you