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on the border detention centers to try and find some answers. now, every president, every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. the reagan administration s amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some nservatives pause today. the bush administration had its faults. the administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. but at the moment, the current administration is separating families from their children at our bor with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. so far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, what s missing from this story are a flood of images of these young children. it was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. so far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. stop and look at her for just a moment. and remember that there are thousands thousa ....
and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. be there for you, and them. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. /s welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, executive disorder. the president puts his pen to paper, but this nation s immigration policy mess isn t going to be fixed overnight. plus, i traveled to the border to talk exclusively with senator kamala harris. i asked her whether it s time to abolish i.c.e. and she said, we might need to start from scratch. and just in tonight, the washington post reports stormy daniels will meet with federal prosecutors tomorrow. but first, when we came on the air last week, the country was at an impasse. the president calling on congress to act on sweeping immigration legislation to end the separation of immigrant f ....
over two weeks ago. and so the border patrol was arresting dozens and dozens of kids a day at that time, sometimes as many as 100 a day. and so the real total by the time the president changed his mind about this was about 3,000. new york governor andrew cuomo has visited facilities in new york state that are holding some of these children, and he does not believe the president s new task force will reunite parents and children. it s impossible legally to reunite the child and the parent. by law, they cannot put the child in a detention facility and what the administration is still doing is keeping the parents in a detention facility. so you cannot unite them with a parent. when they talk about reunification, they re talking about trying to find another family member in this country, an aunt, uncle or something, and see if that relative will take in the child. andrew cuomo knows how the federal bureaucracy works and doesn t work. he was the secretary of housing and urban d ....
putting aside the fact the bible is under our constitution, not the framework to resolve these issues, which the attorney general knows even if the white house spokesperson does not know that. let s look at what else we have here. jeff sessions dismissing all of these concerns from experts and families by saying these migrant children who were ripped from their parents arms are well cared for. this is hhs, health and human servic services. something entirely different from the criminal justice system that they care for these children in a. proper way. they are providing food and education in their native language, health and dental care. we transport them where they want the to go while they are in the country. that is the representation of the trump administration about what they are doing. et we show you that so you can see their version of events. what we are seeing, though, on the ground is very different. here s what s happening inside the casa shelter in texas. childr ....
let s bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. franco ordonez, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. the new york times katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning reporter who covers the justice department. and yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for news hour on pbs. thanks to all of you for being with us. katie, let me start with you. we have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. you cover the justice department, the legal end of this. it sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that executive order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. how clear is that now? absolutely. so as you say, this was another self-inflicted wound by the trump administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. so we saw a lot of confus ....