the associated press news agency but the u.a.e. has denied the claims and says it's never run prisons inside yemen they enter karim reports a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture and impunity these drawings were smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one caption in arabic says it's real terrorism and another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed. seven former detainee spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. has not commented on the investigation but the accusations don't come as a surprise in march human rights groups accuse the united arab emirates of making

arbitrary arrests in southern yemen we have documented the best that the u.a.e. is responsible for. over an arbitrary detention in europe. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are you a military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons there. the head of government said it best to go with the u.n. he has continued to flatly deny and he will use again but abuses continue and all the. prisoners have. rights that from the three year war in yemen has caused a complete breakdown of law and order especially in the south where militias operate beyond the control of the courts and the internationally recognized government in addition to the disappearances and torture there have been reports of executions and assassinations diana carom just your own opinion well still to come

on the program. streets become battlefields in nicaragua as anti-government protesters take on paramilitary groups and the call for the president to step down is getting louder. ok let's take you now to the white house latest pictures coming in from the u.s. of donald trump signing that executive order let's listen it's about keeping families together. while at the same time be sure that we have a very powerful overstrong border and border security will be. equal if not greater than previously. so we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together i didn't like the sight of the feeling of families being separated is a problem that's gone on for many years as you know through many administrations and we're working very hard on never gratian it's been. this left out in the call

people haven't dealt with it and we are dealing with it says step by step just like we dealt with north korea we dealt with their red and we dealt with an economy that was heading in the wrong direction and we dealt with a lot of different problems this is one that has been going on for many decades so we're keeping families together and this will solve that problem at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a zero tolerance we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally without it ask my parents vice president if you'd like to say well thank you mr president. it would through the president's made clear is we believe it's a false choice between whether we are a country of law and order a country with borders in a country the demonstrates and compassion in the heart of the american people with respect for families by taking this action prison will make it possible for us to

continue to engage in the enforcing the law against individuals who violate our laws come into our country illegally but now will be able in the prosecution. in the immediate days for do to keep families together that goes forward but we are calling on congress to change the laws in this regard and in a broad range of areas that will secure our borders and give strength in confidence that we are once again on going to take the steps necessary to end the crisis of illegal immigration in america i think the word compassion comes into it but it still equally is tough. if not tough for secretary nelson right so i just think the theory leadership third we look forward and expect the house to act this week we asked them to do their job the laws need to be changed this is a problem that president after president has dealt with for decades despite his willing to stand up and fix it we ask congress to do their part thank you sir for your leadership thank you very much creature. ok. we're going to have

a lot of happy people. thank you get. off. has been going on for sixty years sixty years nobody's taken care of it nobody has had the political courage to take care of a bill we're going to take care of that's the thing going on it's been going on for a long time. you know i know the voters just as tough but we do want to keep families together this is a problem if you look at some of those horrible scenes from. a few years ago and to me there were horrible scenes there were just terrible and that was during the obama administration other administrations have had the same thing we're keeping the family together and so this is it and also there may be some litigation we're

also wanting to go through congress we will be going through congress we're working on a much more comprehensive bill a lot of good things are happening toward immigration and proper immigration but we have to have strong boaters and ultimately we want to see it done right and it will be done right but what we have done today is we are keeping families together the borders are just as tough just as strong they can come in through ports of entry if they want that's a whole different story and that's coming in through a process and the process is what we want so i want to thank you all very much. i think it's something right. thank you very much everybody. we're just the world we're get the world but yes i. know about the feels very strongly my wife feels very strongly about it i feel very

strongly about it i think. anybody with a heart would feel very strongly about it we don't like to see families separated at the same time we don't want people coming into our country illegally this takes care of the problem thank you very much living. thing i. mean. if you. think his pictures coming to us from the white house of the donald trump of their signing that executive order effectively saying that that will keep families together though he emphasizes that the u.s. will retain a zero tolerance policy on immigration we're listening to that as well was our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so i guess see he's done it he has signed it saying that it will keep families together thought it was interesting that i think it was a vice president pence who said keep families together going forward soon not

a lot of clarity about what's going to happen to the two thousand plus kids that have already been separated what did you make of that news conference and what do you make of this executive order. you know it's so funny when donald trump described his policy towards north korea as peace through strength his approach it almost seems that what he's arguing now is that he is showing compassion through strength that he doesn't want to see families separated the border as we've seen in recent weeks saying that essentially he's been visibly moved by some of the images that have been broadcasting almost around the clock in . in the last week or so on the national television stations here in the united states and as a response he has really bad to public pressure and international outrage that's been escalating for days backing down on this policy of separating children from their parents if they have been accused of entering the united states illegally while they're awaiting an immigration hearing but what he has not backed down on is

the zero tolerance policy in other words saying that if it is determined that someone has entered the united states illegally they will be deported but when that determination is being made when their request for asylum is being made if they have young children they will not be separated so this is very very profound in terms of the administration backing down but also pushing the u.s. congress to do what both parties say hasn't been done and that is reach some sort of compromise on the broader issue of immigration reform this is just a small stopgap measure to address child separations it doesn't address the millions who are living here illegally for years have built lives of businesses here and want to come out of the shadows if you will that still needs to be addressed you heard the president say will get the wall done he's looking for the funding for that to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the united states he's also looking at his head and past press congress is looking for merit based

immigration so there is a lot to discuss there are a lot of differences when it comes to what the immigration reform package should look like it's not one that will be resolved very quickly you have to remember it's congress that makes the laws it is the executive branch or the white house that enforces them so the president's done what he can do in the small piece but the larger broader legislative package is going to take some time to work out it's been something that is really the congress has been stumbling on trying to come together on for almost twenty years to really help you with the latest from the white house can believe thank you. and as we were mentioning more than two thousand children are. detained in at least three shelters across southern texas in the us while their parents await prosecution in federal jails for one holding facility is in brownsville right on the mexico border and al jazeera is gabrielle elizondo is there for us is the executive order has been signed what does that actually mean and for the people in detention centers on the ground brownsville. in

one word confusion i can tell you in the last few minutes we've spoken to so human rights activists here people that work with asylum seekers trying to get them protection people on the front lines here on the border in southern texas and nobody is celebrating this decision by donald trump because the way they see it is there's a big problem that is still going to be happening and that's what to do with the children that are already separated from their families the children that are in this shelter that you see behind me as you can see even with this decision by president trump there's no children running out into the arms of their parents right now because no one knows where the parents exactly are or how to get them reunited with their children that are in this shelter be i mean that's number one how to reunite the people that are already separated number two a lot of people here already saying that it's still going to be a zero tolerance policy all it means is that asylum seekers are now going to be in

jail or detained with their children and that's a little better than being separated from their children but the problem still exists here now i can tell you that here in brownsville it's certainly the front lines of this immigration debate as we saw as we went around and spoke to people here. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants poverty and violence want to cross legally to ask for asylum . the lines are long. weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means crossing to the u.s. illegally or the dead are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the

people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence or i'm standing now is the town of brownsville the other side is mexico when there's zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative light for i guess the environmental community everyone's kind of turning hostile it's a really negative impact on people in general i know i mean i don't know why they're doing it but i just know it's not right kids not being with their parents i don't like what's happening but they have to come in legally they don't speak english they're on the welfare system and it's just not fair to our whole all our homeless in our citizens that are in poverty some people here say the parents bear

part of the responsibility for protecting their kids that issue alone is difficult i wouldn't be able to handle it i would hate to be you away from my children but at the same time i can also understand if i'm going to take that risk you're running into that very possibility you know and maybe as a parent if i'm going across a border maybe i should you know follow the rules. with the trumpet ministration appearing only to double down rather than back down on its policy a sign that the more families it separates the more polarized communities like this are likely to become. again the big question now how to reunite the more than two thousand three hundred children that are currently in shelters all over this part of the united states how to reunite them with their parents that are some have already returned back to central america where they're from some are in the system being criminally prosecuted right now the short answer

is how to reunite them and the short answer to that is right now nobody really knows because there seems to be no process in place to get these families reunited so in theory what we're expecting is that it could be days maybe even weeks before some of the families actually so the parents actually get to see their children again back to you in london. in brownsville in texas thank you. now these really military says its air strikes have hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says they were response to around forty five rockets fired from gaza towards israeli territory several of the rockets were intercepted but three landed just inside israel tensions have been high since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza border fence israeli troops have shot dead one hundred thirty two palestinians and injured thousands more

during several weeks of demonstrations herefore said has more now from west jerusalem. israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired from gaza and territory into israel in the course of the night and in response the israeli military struck twenty five hamas targets within the gaza strip most of them understood to be empty military compounds training areas and the like all the palestinian sources do reports at least two palestinians being injured in those strikes on the israeli side the israeli military is saying that seven of the projectiles were intercepted by the iron dome system at least three fell within gaza and territory but three did fall within populated areas in israel close to the gaza border and in one instance there was damage to buildings and cars but no injuries reported on the israeli side all of this comes in the context of the protests that we've been seeing in the last few months the around one hundred

thirty palestinians who have been killed by israeli snipers during that period the ongoing humanitarian crisis within gaza and the biggest military flare up we've seen since twenty fourteen which took place at the end of last month neither side according to any number of reports wants an escalation to a full blown conflict at this stage and both to understand what have become the rules of the game over many years now but it is always possible that an escalation can take place even if neither side wants it. south sudan's rival leaders are holding talks in ethiopia aimed at ending a five year civil war president salva kiir and the rebel leader here plus shot had been met face to face since a peace deal fell apart in two thousand and sixteen leading the shard to go into exile ethiopia is helping to mediate the talks tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting and millions have been displaced both sides are accused of human rights violations north korea's leader has wrapped up his two day trip to

china kim jong un was there to brief president paying on his meeting with donald trump earlier this month this is kim's third visit to china since march he has a valve to support north korea's economic reconstruction and said there would definitely be peace and stability on the peninsula the two leaders discussed ways to work towards the nuclearization. lots more of that and everything else we've been covering on our website the address i'll just say right thought. and now a reminder of our top stories donald trump has signed an executive order that ends family separations of the u.s. border he says the order will not end the zero tolerance policy towards migrants pressure has been mounting on trying to don't trump to stop the practice of separating children including babies from their parents. so we're keeping families

together and this will solve that problem at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be zero tolerance we have zero tolerance for people our country illegally. the u.n. is marking world refugee day sixty eight point five million people have forcibly been displaced by conflict worldwide that's the highest in recorded history more than half of them are under eighteen that's the highest number of child refugees since world war two. former inmates of prisons in yemen run by the u.a.e. are accusing the m.e. r.c. guards of systematic sexual abuse the associated press interviewed seven men who said that rampant sexual torture was used to brutalize detainees the u.a.e. has the night of the claims the saudi in iraqi coalition in yemen says it's taken full control of the airport of holiday that these exclusive al jazeera pictures

show deserted streets after locals fled from nearby towns taking the airport represents a key milestone in the offensive to push to the rebels from the city of the fighting continues in the area and. from that the at what we don't know let's go next we're trying to push. through to a nation that will it how can we leave the data we have no want to take us and i have my husband eight kids with me. these really military says it's launched airstrikes on at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says the strikes were in response to around forty five rockets that were fired from gaza towards israeli territory several of the rockets were intercepted but three landed just inside israel well those are the top stories on al-jazeera going to have more news for you in just under half an hour coming up next it's the stream thanks for watching by.

i really could be and here in the stream thousands of immigrants to the united states the american dream has turned into a nightmare and more than two thousand children have been separated from their parents as the government of president donald trump enforces a zero tolerance policy undocumented immigrants and i'm not going to have a dean today we'll hear stories from the detention centers and ask immigration experts to weigh in and of course we want to hear from all of you join us in our you tube top.

democrats or so that. nation i just use. and show. pictures of children and minors in cages and heart wrenching stories of families torn apart continue to emerge and provoke outrage protests are growing louder and cross party lines but despite the outcry and recent polls show that the policy is supported by many in trump's core republican base the president has signed an executive order to stop separation of families but how are the lives of immigrants

from mexico guatemala honduras and el salvador being affected we spoke to some people on the streets of washington d.c. to get their thoughts i just think our politicians should get together and stop this administration for example rating families and doing things that are completely against the values of the united states and i definitely also hope that this conversation so. routing us currency care policy expects to sell most all of it's gotten a lot of people's attention and well i'm continue to hold people's attention and the larger public so that they can start and i like other pieces of education policy rather than kind of hiding and i don't touch them and that's dedicated to this very emotional issue that involves children like gets the conversation going about policy that i personally feel like i was in a position of leadership pertaining to immigration i would never lets them like this happen you know families i the families of dogs because very important and if they're being separated is terrible now i'm from texas and so i can only imagine

how hard it would be. just just the natural conditions of what it would be like to stand in places like that so that's no i'm not very well versed about but i can only imagine the conditions are terrible and so whatever is being done in these separation areas where the place of the kids are stained i hope that they're having access to water to cool temperatures are things that out man. but joining us to talk about this holly cooper co-director of the immigration law clinic at the university of california davis eric opinio is policy and litigation director at. and bridget cambria is an immigration attorney in oakland california at people's justice the people's justice center and i want to start with a clip and welcome to you all i want to give our viewers a glimpse of what the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy has meant for one

family in particular meet one year old go separated from its father who was legally seeking asylum in the u.s. it took three months before the boy was allowed to reignite with his mother shown here in a video captured by filmmaker but doubt have a look. funny when you see turned himself in at the border to ask for asylum he presented his identification and a son's birth certificate. immigration officials claimed he was not the father and kept him in detention. but to us in fifteen hundred miles away to the officer for a few cheery sentiment. no one.

can say that he can be anyone yet have you and. me that. i do but they haven't made up my mind. now do. you know what it departments here tell me you know what i. can let me. return you don't. need a young man was. doing . the work.

you know. the heart breaking video there think the saddest part is seeing the look in his mother's eyes and also her younger son when he realizes that his little brother doesn't recognize him how are my tail and his family doing today. well still having a lot of emotional and behavioral issues resulting from the separation of his family and i actually when he was returned to his mother he was infested with lice and filthy is mother tells me about it looked like he hadn't been be used with soap in months and so now he's just now starting to trust his mother again unfortunately his father is still detained at the time is a detention facility in san diego we've tried to arrange for a visit twice and both times the children were not let into the touch of facilities

the first time we tried was actually andrea's birthday he was so excited to see his father and then had to open his birthday presents in the parking lot of the facility the second time they told us the children had not been cleared i'm not really sure what kind of clearance process i need for a two year old and i are old but the fact is they have not been allowed to see their father since they were separated from him in november of twenty seventeen you know and hearing you describe you know the condition of the family the shock but also the physical condition and the torture of some spirit you know the effect on the boy i should say drawn a most like many people on twitter saying from the articles i've read on the issue all of the reports coming in from medical professionals agree that this experience is incredibly traumatic and could potentially cause lifelong harm on the child of course i meant trauma not torture earlier but we have a clinical psychologist who's weighing in sent us a video comment really outlining her concerns and what she's doing about it i'd love to get your thoughts bridget let's let's take a listen i wrote a letter which has now been signed by over ninety thousand mental health

professionals asking their present ministration to remember when you can fly to be a child and to not only talk about the separation policy ask policy but to actually think about the children who are being ripped apart from their parents something where we are deeply concerned about the fact that the separation has on the standards. on their general wellbeing and on the entire trajectory of their lives in regards to see stocks immediately. richard of course the executive order was signed but hearing the psychologist there what comes to mind. well what comes to mind to me is that i'm a practitioner in family detention i was brought into a family separation because we heard of vulnerable cases and started to take them. we know that family detention even together causes severe trauma. to minors.

it causes thoughts of suicide it causes thoughts helplessness so we see that in family detention and that's when we have a family together so imagine i mean it's hard to even imagine what the psychological effects would be with a child torn from a parent and the instantaneous psychological damage that's done by that i don't think that psychologists are going to know until we see what happens to these two to three thousand children taken what the exact effects are but i'm sure that it's going to be startling and i'm sure that it's going to be lifelong brigid i'm want to share with you to have lunch in with our audience of course because i know you're already familiar with this one from the new york times inside the former wal-mart that is now a shelter for almost fifteen hundred migrant children and this is in brownsville texas here's another headline this from the a.p. in this just came out recently overnight late last night on tuesday night break at

least three shelters set up for child migrants and their what's being called tender age shelters can you explain to us what you know about these shelters what kind of provisions are there for children what's happening inside and what do they look like. well to be honest these new pop up detention centers for children i don't believe that there have been cameras inside of them yet i think that the idea of something called a tender age shelter which is really a tender age baby jail is is absolutely horrific and probably against any kind of values that we hold as human beings or us americans. i don't understand how any facility could possibly be licensed that contains minors as young as an infant. i would pretty much guarantee that they probably are not licensed for that purpose additionally if you have a tent city for minors i have absolutely no idea how any state could possibly

license the syllabi like that and that is a requirement if you're going to detain children and something that i'm very terrified about today with an executive order from the trumpet ministration is are they going to remove those very simple protections for minors protections that include avoiding prolonged attention and avoiding being placed into facilities that are not made to care for children at all all the you know a lot of people talking about how this amounts to child abuse maybe that's why i used the word torture earlier just trying to imagine what that would be like really tough to know because so few people have been been inside but people are trying to make sense of why this happened bringing politics into this on twitter families belong together saying trump and sessions are using immigration as an issue to agitate their base for midterm elections while the same time trying to wash their hands of this as they lied to the american people but maybe you know the the main question that remains that is being discussed on twitter right here by its sea

floor is says what happens to the families who are separated under the previous policy now that the order has been signed what can you tell us about that holly. well i've been inside i've been suspected at least twenty different children's detention facilities and they range all the way from shelter care to juvenile jails or the office of refugee resettlement is the entity that detains minors and uses juvenile jails where the conditions can include pepper spray can include putting children into psychiatric treatment facilities we're seeing a huge amount of trauma even before this executive order because there's trauma not only a family some but there's the trauma that detention brings upon a child some children are locked in cells for the majority of the day without the right to educate without any meaningful education so what we're seeing is when trump is saying i'm going to sign an executive order that in family separation what

he's really saying is i'm going to hold children with their mothers in facilities that don't meet minimum humanitarian requirements so all three of our guests have mentioned this executive order and that's because it happened just moments before our live air time take a look at my computer here this is just a screen shot that i grabbed as as he was about to sign this executive order this is trump u.s. immigration signing this order and he said we are keeping families to gather and of course this to many people critics and those who are just observant watchers would say this is. a flip flop from earlier policy and earlier announcements from people in the trumpet ministration and i want to share with our viewers exactly what that looks like have a look. yes i am considering in order to deter. the longest terribly dangerous network i am considering exactly that they will be well cared for as we deal with their parents have you been directed to separate parents from

children as a method of deterrence of undocumented immigration i have not been directed to do that for purposes of deterrence now i'm sure that people are going be less likely to bring their kids to america if they get separated than if they live together and get released into the country i would cite each of the apostle paul and his clear and wise command in romans thirteen to a phase of the government because god is a dying or dying for his purposes so why doesn't the president pick up and change the policy he said he said i think the president is trying to do is find a long term fix so why don't we have congress change the law to change our congress if he does it in r.l. we want to solve family separation i don't want children taken away from parents. and i will have to people.

we are going. to be going on fifteen years sixteen years nobody's taking care of it nobody has. the political courage to take care of the bill we're going to take care of but we're going to go i'm going to hold it. probably says no one has had the political courage to take care of it indicating that he has even though this policy was enacted underneath his the head of the straight holly please clarify this for our american audience and our international audience who must be scratching their heads and. yes but it's really about deflecting the issue and mischaracterizing what's going on so that he appears to be the hero in the equation when he's really the villain and what's happening is that the four as settlements that he's in this executive order seeking to modify has set forth very basic

protections for detain children to be reunited with their family members expeditiously and to have detained detained in facilities that have minimum state licensing requirements and now what he's saying is that he wants to you know modify the floor a settlement agreement it's not clear how but one can speculate that he'll want to detain families and children together to create sort of modern day internment camps where children and mothers will be detained together throughout the fruition of their proceedings which is going to have this own psychological toll on the children for being detained is is. also a harm in addition to being separated from their parents and we've. we've already seen that they've built these tent cities to detain children and so the logical next step would be to house families in those facilities and i also want to say just now working on the border here i don't believe that they're actually going to

stop family separation the case of jose that much when they the family that was featured in the video you showed earlier caught the attention of numerous congress people who held hearings with the department of homeland security who denied that they were separating families when we had proof that they were in those cases the department of homeland security claimed that the fact the parents didn't have proof of the parental relationship when a fact they were handing over original birth certificates and pot for it to the department of homeland security so i don't believe they're going to stop family separation it might be less than they're doing right now but i don't believe that they're going to stop it they're just going to use these post-hoc excuses to try to justify what they're doing in terms of trying. justify what they're doing you know a lot of the comments believe i have to be honest with our audience with everyone here it's really still shock and disbelief even after this announcement this flip flop whatever you want to call it this announcement by president trump as big as it is richard saying separating families and causing such distress to children and

their parents is simply the most shocking thing the u.s. administration has done since its inception as a parent my stomach keeps turning can there possibly be a low or low than this how can any parent sanction this and you know these might seem like kind of rhetorical questions almost but we do have kind of a question specifically about just jeff sessions in the policy moving forward on this you know someone saying jeff sessions has a clear agenda this is represents the clear agenda for the justice department including ramping up new ways of criminalizing and incarcerating people while rolling back criminal justice and policing reforms based on what you just said eric i mean do you think that that's true that this is an agenda by this administration and that's the fight that's going to continue from here on out absolutely and this is just one policy of many that is sought to stem the flow of asylum seekers especially from central america you know the ministration as demonized central americans as m.s. thirteen gang members when in fact a lot of these people are fleeing gang violence jeff sessions recently changed the

law to try to exclude victims of domestic violence and victims of gang violence from asylum protections and let's just you know setback for a second and also recognize that seeking asylum is illegal immigration so a lot of the rhetoric going on right now calling these people illegal immigrants is just absolutely wrong they have the right to seek asylum under u.s. law and under international law whether or not they enter the united states at a designated port of entry i'm glad you clarified that because i want to bring this up here some may see this as a p.r. disaster for the united states and for the administration others not so much this is a box and they are citing several polls trumps family separation policy is very unpopular except. among some republicans one study finds sixty six percent of americans opposed it and twenty seven percent in favor there are people who say this will be a deterrent and people in the ministration also have said that the idea is this will cause the numbers to decrease even though we've seen

a recent spike in the last few months bridget i wonder what you think of the idea of deterrence of the people in the u.s. population who say our borders are there for a reason while i have to agree that i absolutely believe that the policies of the administration for family separation of family. tension the whole purpose of what they're doing is deterrence their idea is if they punish the people who they have custody then they'll stop other people from coming unfortunately we've found that's not the case it's never the case people will not stay in a burning building if they're if they're in a burning building in their their lives in danger or their children's lives are in danger they're going to flee and the administration has clearly enacted clearly enacted the family separation policy family detention policy and other other policies in order to deter people from seeking asylum in the united states but it's not going to work. and addition to it not working it's illegal the government

cannot use deterrent policies against people in their custody to prevent actions from people and this and of course i was because they would have to prove that that is the policy right that it was you know our deter and we saw those questions to the homeland security had and she denied them. she denied them but other members of the administration did not deny them and actually expressly stated them that they are her deterrent purposes and i think that there's plenty in the record to show that it's just one person you know walking back those comments because they know legally it's not a good position so where do we go from here because shawn on twitter is asking you know what happens to the families that have been separated the u.s. government he says is still culpable because they have not put in place a mechanism of reuniting the families after separation or deportation any sense of if if that is is beginning to happen or will have to happen or will happen at all well. let me just tell you one one thing in the case of some of the families that

we've represented we are suing for the immediate reunification of children with their parents and the case we filed for two boys who have been separated from their fathers. not given any communication the fathers in fact had no idea where they were the fathers had no idea you know what the identification number that immigration used for them was we have to find that as attorneys and to be honest most families are separated don't have attorneys so how are they going to find their children. this is a huge problem for the administration because right now we have about three thousand children without parents and what mechanisms are they going to put to bring these families together i think should be their number one priority and what they should be doing is within the next twenty four hours forty eight hours week be immediately reunifying all these children who are separated from their parents with their parents holly i know you want to jump in there. yeah i mean we're also i mean

we have a big concern because we represent a class the nation class of children who are detained and a lot of the children are too young to even identify to the families phone numbers they said biographical information so we have a big concern also from the children's perspective as to how are they going to find their parents when they want to reach out because the children's are such tender age that they can't meaningfully articulate if that identifying information and or are the opposite refugee resettlement refuses to give us that information as advocates as lawyers for the children i want to share with our audience is this erica we have just about a minute in the show left that this is reunite an immigrant parent with their child if you've been on facebook in the last few days you have seen this fundraiser for rice is they've raised twelve million dollars to go towards legal fees and for reunification what would you tell people watching who want to do something erica well definitely donating to the organizations. working on the ground i says is an

excellent organization there are several other organizations including widgets organization my own kino border initiative etc there's there's lists out there are things like put out a list donating to these organizations will allow us to hire attorneys to help these people because as bridget and holly mentioned we have thousands of children who've been separated from their parents who have really no other way to be reunified today i have a lot of moland father has been deported without his five year old child if i weren't helping him and trust me it's difficult still to get them reunited if i weren't helping him he'd really have no way to figure out how to get his daughter back so those of us working on the ground are really going to put these resources to good use you hearing from eric opinion or you heard from ali ali cooper and bridget cambrian of course to our community we have to leave the conversation there with thank you for being part of this show today we'll continue to follow the story as it develops we'll see you next time.

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at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be age zero tolerance we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally well alan fischer is in washington d.c. for a salad what does this executive order actually say what is it going to mean. well essentially what he's seeing is that there will still be a zero tolerance policy what does it all boil down to well essentially children will be separated from their families but people who come across the border illegally will still be held only will be held together as a family unit where they're going to do that but we're told that donald trump is consulting with the defense department so there could be some sort of facility created on military bases but here's the other problem as well there are already court rulings in the united states that say you can't keep a hold of children you can't detain them indefinitely and you simply can't keep them for more than about thirty days and so this is likely to face further court

action from people representing the families who say they're being held far too long certainly don't want to see more immigration judges that is part of the legislation that is being considered in the senate and they expect a vote on that at some point on thursday but donald trump didn't have to sign an executive order here this is donald trump doing something in front of the cameras for the last few days he's been saying what we need is legislative action this is not something that i'm doing this is something that has to be sorted out by congress and it turns out it is something that he can sort because this is just his justice department's policy he could have changed it with a phone call but he decided to do it in front of the cameras to give the idea that he is doing something dramatic and that will help him in the long term because be under no illusion he was under growing criticism across the united states from both republicans and democrats because of what was happening here also the u.s. government were facing a boycott from a number of airlines is that what we're not going to fly separated families

anywhere in the united states that the government wants so this is a big political move by donald trump and in the next few days there should be some sort of clarity of what this executive order and what he signed in the last hour or so will actually meet helen fisher with the latest from washington allan thank you . all the u.n. is actually marking world refugee day today sixty eight point five. million people have forcibly being displaced by conflict worldwide that's the highest in recorded history more than half are under eighteen that's the highest number of child refugees since world war two former inmates of prisons in yemen run by the u.a.e. are accusing the m.r.c. guards of systematic sexual abuse the associated press interviewed seven men who said that rampant sexual torture was used to brutalize detainees the u.a.e. has the night of the claims the saudi and the rocky coalition in yemen says it has taken full control of the airport in the data these exclusive al jazeera pictures

to show deserted streets after locals fled to nearby towns taking the airport represents a key milestone in the offensive to push to the rebels from the city the fighting does continue in the area and. from that the app but we don't know what's going at so we're trying to go. through donations how can we leave her data we have no want to take us i have my husband eight kids with me. south sudan's rival leaders are holding talks in ethiopia aimed at ending a five year civil war president salva kiir and the revelator react machar hadn't met face to face to face since a peace deal fell apart in two thousand and sixteen leading the charge to go into exile ethiopia is helping to mediate the talks and i have more on all those stories for you in just under half an hour do stay with us coming up next it's witness chasing asylum thank you so much for watching.

they look at this one as the nobel of. the same. would have been saying if you have been a few. months about a month you have to let them know you. can see and if you know.

we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come. we just. continues sending a signal to the rest of the world that this is a nation will be easy just tonight. this has to die i can see and i very clear message to a solemn sake those who are contemplating risking a voyage. and that message very clearly dyke risk it doesn't give you money to people smuggler because you will not be better off. i make absolutely no apology whatsoever for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to australia. what the australian people

elected us to do was to stop the fags. this is a national emergency we've got to treat it as such. thousands and millions i'm saying.

i mean it was intentional and. i've given away that's been i mean i think. that people looking for those fixes. that they would need. ten. that people have already been there five. four hundred five hundred days. i didn't know they'd be so many security personnel. but it feels militarized.

a friend of mine called me and told me hey that hiring people to read. you're interested in the sausages and i thought yeah yeah i guess i am so if she gave me this number and she got the number for facebook i'd leave it on and i called this number and said i'd like to go to my room and the woman said she went to live. i was a student at mcrae any in sydney and i joined the salvation army society on facebook and they posted an ad about going to have a nursery and at the time they made it sound like really nice that. they made it sound like it was just a two week kind of holiday you could bring our friends along. and two to three days

late as in never it was two of my best friends from school for a wide range of people and though you know eighteen year old university students retirees and anything that we have in common was that none of us had experience working with refugees before. i can't stress enough the remoteness of the location and. it's in the middle of the pacific ocean . it's an island of ten thousand people. and takes twenty minutes to drive around the island it's extremely hot. humid and. just how poor the island is. in the strength of what comes the known government and says we're going to a few billion dollars over the next seventy years to has a few thousand asylum seekers for a failing economy like never i can imagine it would seem like a very. good option. on

my first day we went up to the town. the salvation army gave us a very small briefing and said go out and help them and. and and be their friends. a lot of people were really confused when they first arrived in. i remember one particular intake a lot of the members saying to me where are we i thought this was part of this trial you're. so it was up to us to tell them that no you know didn't strata you're not really. my voice vivid memories was a sign being on the wall of that said stuff would have to be trained how do you say

. when asked what a hoffman's knife was it was the knife used to cut people down when they found hanging. quite quickly i started to realize that i had sent myself to a place which i never would have gone. today the prime minister of public amy and i are announcing a major initiative to combat the good people smuggling. but now all the asylum seekers who arrived in australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in australia as refugees if they're found to be genuine refugees the.