Health and human services have held in some unknown way exactly six children. because this weekend health and human services department said they had 2,053 migrant children in custody. this morning the secretary said they had only six less than that, 2,047. today 17 states in the district of columbia asked a federal judge to bar the trump administration from separae ini children and then parents who cross the southern border. the washington post reports that the state s attorneys general are asserting in a lawsuit that the practice was an affront to states sovereign interests in enforcing their laws governing minimum standards of care for children. leading off our discussion, jacob soboroff, msnbc correspondent, and hillary bass, president of the american bar association. she observed immigration court proceedings today in mcall, texas and met with parents
Okay. so that means so far this week health and human services have held in some unknown way exactly six children. because this weekend health and huices department said they had 2,053 migrant children in custody. this morning the secretary said they had only six less than that, 2,047. today 17 states in the district of columbia asked a federal judge to bar the trump administration from separating children and then parents who cross the southern border. the washington post reports that the state s attorneys general are asserting in a lawsuit that the practice was an affront to states sovereign interests in enforcing their laws governing minimum standards of care for children. leading off our discussion, jacob soboroff, msnbc correspondent, and hillary bass, president of the american bar
They were reunited by cbp. so that means the number, again, of children reunited with their parents that were taken away from their parents by this policy may be onl a handful by hhs. they may not have reunited any as far as we know until we get this number sorted out with the children that are still being separated coming in versus the children that are going out. still so many questions that they haven t answered. and hillary bass, reunited is being used now but it doesn t necessarily mean reunited with a parent. in some cases, they re talking about having these children go to some other relative in the ed stas. that s correct, lawrence. and we also spoke to a number of women today who indicated that they had provided information about sponsors in the u.s. for their separated children. one had a husband who was documented and lived in the united states, and she indicated from the first day that she was brought into detention.
That have been reunited were not actually reunited by hhs. they were reunited by cbp. so that means the number, again, of children reunited with their parents that were taken away from their parents by this policy may be only a handful by hhs. they may not have reunited any as far as we know until we get this number sorted out with the children that are still being separated coming in versus the children that are going out. still so many questions that they haven t answered. and hillary bass, reunited is being used now but it doesn t necessarily mean reunited with a parent. in some cases, they re talking about having these children go to some other relative in the united states. that s correct, lawrence. and we also spoke to a number of women today who indicated that they had provided information about sponsors in the u.s. for their separated children.