first 2000 2008 trafficking victims prevention reauthorization act under president george w. bush and second is asylum system. asylum requests claims up 1700 percent. and finally 197. provided for a means for families not to be separated. and part of the reason why senator crups first republican piece of legislation offering to try to get funding, key word funding to keep some families together. but we are certainly here at ground zero in mccallen texas at one of the processing centers. we will get in there and try to speak with the sector chief manuel padilla and find out what's going on. steve: thank you griff, very much. it's clear the white house made it crystal clear yesterday they are going to continue this maximum pressure policy of separating parents from children at the border to make the point that that is the law of the land.