yes and it. is just as in the calls me a. little. bit i want to get out of it immediately yes of them or no but. right now they don't have many options they can wait here in what is one of mexico's most violent cities or try to cross illegally but that now leads to criminal prosecution. but. he'd only one be thrown out tried again but this time we were there filming. they were stopped by border patrol agents again and were told to wait.

and then despite being told it was for just a half hour earlier they were allowed into the u.s. . we found out later that they were separated. it only more who's eighteen was sent to an adult detention center and put their own sixteen to a children's shelter. many people who are right i mean they don't even know what asylum is they know that they left because they needed to save their lives. those seeking asylum in the u.s. are interviewed by the government to see if they qualify it's called a credible fear interview. the outcome determines whether or not they can stay. but the administration is seeking to made that harder by changing their criteria for

asylum in a way that seems targeted at central americans we have our attorney general now say that we're no longer protecting victims of domestic violence or victims of gangs coming from central america and so suddenly with that change it truly puts a wrench in who we can protect under our silent laws. asylum is a complicated process and many people have to navigate it without a lawyer maybe you don't speak english maybe you don't read english maybe you're not familiar with the many years of asylum was all of a sudden you have to articulate a legal claim. i mean that's a significant piece of a lid on was part of one of the many teams of pro bono lawyers that were organized to meet with separated parents at detention centers those parents had to go through the asylum process not knowing where their children where i interview people all day long and people tell me terrible things they tell me that they've been burned

and cut that their children have been harassed just really awful things and yet in this case these fifty people that i interviewed every single one of them was not about that it was all about where is my child when am i going to see my child is my child deported how do i know if my child is ok i think my child is injured it was awful. one of her fears clients was with. us with her five year old daughter vanessa trying to escape violent threats against her. they were separated for over a month when we met her betty was still recovering from that experience. well we have some input in this is slaves and they have. a i have never thought i have they don't seem. to sound. so i have the most. not got a lot of. meaning is that what.

great quarterback was about out on me i'm one. of the first to have. at first didn't know where her daughter had been taken and then she began her asylum process what was it like to go through the process of seeking asylum knowing that you didn't have your child with your. hands on moment when the little bit. what was it like the first interview. he had. with the. little. seven that i was thinking of an idea

what happens on the plane might not be there least. they don't know and then what are going to vary from want to be with the. after that interview the asylum officer rejected her case or only hold then was that any mean grecian judge would reverse it but she wasn't the only separated parent that received a negative finding. because i want to get all of this young no no no and when you wonder. to explain what was happening and nobody's going to. tsunami hony comment that they're still looking at the bridge and. he asked betty five questions that weren't related to her case when did you come in where where's your child and then proceeded to affirm the negative finding of. the asylum officer and that was it and that f. course is at the end of that you have a final order of removal i spoke of her work i'm betty ski's ophelia drafted

a three hundred page motion documenting evidence of the threats betty face to backing on to death. i made a request for reconsideration directly to the asylum office in houston to a first it was just a letter like hey this you know i think this this decision was wrong and here's the legal reasons why and then i just started they contacting the asylum office like daley brain and then thankfully they did so then they turned over their own decision they agreed that the there was a legal basis for the credible fear finding and they placed her in proceedings and that was that's where we are now and then of course right after that is when betty was finally released with her daughter so you have to do all that for her to be able to at least have a case here now i mean it's it's yes or no i'm sorry if you don't if she doesn't have you like she will be units in back probably yes it's hard to say in this particular set of circumstances i do think that it's true that probably her case

would just be dead in the water and she wouldn't be able to go forward and apply for asylum if she didn't have counsel because i don't know how how would they know that they needed to make a request for reconsideration right i mean it's it's without it i don't know how they do it without lawyers. being. for now betty and her daughter will be able to stay and wait to see if she's officially granted asylum and they're allowed to remain in the u.s. she was lucky to have a persistent lawyer but not every parent had one and even then it's not always a guarantee. europeans ok there can be me. you. know the media. folk barons who have already been sent back without their children the future is

uncertain. when we were on the road as we tracked down another father who was separated from his child and then deported. he asked us to hide his identity because of the threats he's been facing on the u.s. we call him but i will. he told us he needed to leave here because the drug trafficker had killed his cousin and threatened to do the same to him one day i always said he would work for him. to militancy and very had almost all the news. of it was also rather. he told us that he and his four year old son crossed out one of the bridges into texas to ask for asylum with the long one and a market for a gun near or. was over some of your love you so you will be. so more progressive over there while a reporter while you are in europe the middle or upper martin saw. but then he son

was taken from him and i was sent to a detention center he said immigration agents were not interested in hearing he's asylum claim instead he was given a document to sign and soon after he was deported so you have more of a privilege you're living because it was over probably the work of. this woman so that arm of the man was. over the. last not to see don't seem i mean want to. see almost all the. laws at all that rafael in the. little box. and left the little. world in the world so. told us that he was given documents to sign and that he didn't know what they wear for you only one reason because you are from the potomac you only want him of not caring. for you very much

on the political move on from here. i think there's i don't know if it is so i mean it's only. through your we don't have you. read up on both only. we don't know what they signed because they weren't given copies but neither expected or wanted to be deported. we do know that this form was given to parents in detention while they were separated from their children says that the form must be read to the alien parent in the language that he she understands that it's obviously in english and it gives the parents two options one of them is to be deported with their child and the other one is to be deported without their child when you know we're here says that they have the right to seek legal counsel. according to a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union

a number of parents reported being threatened and coerced into signing this document. a judge then ordered the government to add a third option requesting a lawyer. as we were filming we heard about a group of detained parents that had been given this new form in late july the forms had three options which was i want to be deported with my child i want to be deported without my child i want to talk to a lawyer essentially is what the options were but according to lawyers who met with these parents they didn't really have an option of the boxes have been pre-checked by hand for a option an option one which was i want to be deported with one child and the officers told everyone that they had to sign and we were the first journalist they spoke to about what happened. the detention center doesn't allow cameras in so we arrange phone calls with them through and in ca sion house a local nonprofit that works with immigrants all that. you know maybe one of those parents was mighty young we changed his name because he's afraid of retaliation by

immigration officials for speaking about what happened. after being separated from his son for months they were reunited on of us along with other parents and their children. rather than going to. yemen. but then he says federal immigration agents have boarded the bus and asked the parents to get off. they were given. they're supposed to have an option but they didn't really have no they didn't have the option at all i mean it was pretty tracked and then they were also getting out. another father we spoke to recounted the same. thing.

yes hello percentage of dignity a lot i don't know well i thought. that. if he had signed he would have been giving up his son's chance to fight for asylum. cause again got implemented. seven parents refused to sign according to a new house and were separated from their children again you know what keep us on rushing about in the wilderness and.

they don't want to sign i want to be deported without my child but the same time scene i want to be deported with my child means their child can be brought back to insecurity and violence and possible death just this the impossible choice they're trying to make without attorneys trying to make it while they're in detention while they're being jarobi cards they're given five ten minutes to fill these forms and those seven parents who refused to sign were incredibly strong because they were getting yelled at by and they'd just seen their kids for the first time in three months and they still refused to sign and then everything that figure by their kids . their parents allegations were filed as part of the a.c.l.u. so lawsuit and a few weeks leader one parent was released and reunited but the rest including the fathers we spoke to remain in detention. the department of homeland security and the department of justice declined multiple requests for an interview. families now are left to deal with the consequences like elmer when this reporter went to where

he starter had recently been released to a relative in the us. after nearly three months in a shelter. he wants her to stay to pursue her own asylum claim even though it means he doesn't know when or if he will see her again. for a while. i mean when they like her. as. they were wrong. they were brazen. and for nearly a decade they committed crimes with impunity. they were. decorated police officers. baltimore is once again at the center of a debate over how to police the police. the gang within

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details cavanaugh's accuses stands by her allegations that he sexually assaulted her in the one thousand nine hundred. at the united nations general assembly palestine and says the u.s. is not an honest broker in the middle east peace process and the mosque is charged with forward over his tesla business dealings. u.s. senate republican side they'll move ahead with the with a committee vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh on friday that follows a dramatic day of testimony by both cavanagh and one of the women accusing him of sexual misconduct christine blazin ford says cavanagh attacked her when they were teenagers roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . a historic hearing in washington a woman recounting a traumatic event for her teenage years and here today not because i want these.

and terrified versus a man fighting for his future and a seat on the u.s. supreme court this confirmation process has become a national disgrace christine blazin for it seemed on the verge of tears as she told the senate judiciary committee about what she calls the worst night of her life the night blows the fourth says a teenager brett kavanaugh tried to strip her and rape her laughing all the while he was seventeen she was fifteen i believe he was going to rape me i tried to yell for help when i did brett put his hand over my mouth stop me from yelling this is what terrified me the most and this had the most lasting impact on my life blousy ford's testimony comes eleven days after her allegation against the supreme court nominee was published in the washington post cavanaugh testified shortly after ford through tears of his own he vehemently denied assaulting ford or anyone

else i'm here today to tell the truth i've never sexually assaulted anyone not in high school not in college not ever mistaken blocky fort has told senators her allegations are not farfetched and that the trauma has haunted her for decades with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted one hundred percent one hundred percent what is the strongest memory you have the appropriate laughter between the two and they're having fun at my expense as for president trump's nominee he was adamant he's not going anywhere i will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process you fried hard. you've given it your all. within moments of the hearings ending

trump said he had picked the right man for the job describing his testimony as powerful honest and riveting even if the senate judiciary committee votes on brett kavanaugh his nomination on friday it won't immediately affect the supreme court it will start its new session on monday with eight justices and a vacancy and christine blousy forward will learn whether her revelation will have any impact on the confirmation process roslyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. said the power for former federal prosecutor and dallas texas and she says the entire process has been a poor example of coming to a committee procedure. it was a difficult day in the culmination of two extremely painful weeks for everyone involved miss ford has been the object of intense media scrutiny and relentless pressure from every direction and mr carbonneau has seen his name dragged through

the mud and just been completely vilified across the country neither one of them deserved that and all of it could have been avoided had the senate followed the process of keeping that information confidential and conducting a confidential inquiry to learn the facts in fact the woman that was examining ms ford who has experience and prosecuting and dealing with victims of sexual assault said that it should have been a private one on one consultation that allowed ms ford to talk uninterrupted and then experience question or to help or fill in the blanks but instead we had this outrageous public spectacle that it was a disservice to absolutely everyone involved it was a disservice to all the senators and to miss ford and certainly to judge kavanaugh . so i want all the news balun the palestinian president has used his speech to the un general assembly to launch a strong attack on the u.s.

and israel mahmoud abbas said the u.s. is no longer an independent mediator in the peace process and contrast israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu barely addressed the issue in his speech on diplomatic editor james bay is has more a request political when the israeli prime minister spoke to the un there was one thing he hardly talked about the palestinians he instead focused on iran claiming israel had discovered a new nuclear storage facility in tehran he then went told to boast about the strength of his relationship with the trumpet ministration so i want to use this opportunity to express israel's appreciation to president trump and ambassador here really for the unwavering support they provided israel at the united nations the palestinian president gave his message the moment he took to the podium and look salacious at little bay jerusalem is not for sale.

but how close to sharm been in the palestinian people's rights are not up for bargaining he went on to express his frustration at the actions of the trumpet ministration. we waited his peace initiative without most patience but we were shocked by decisions and actions he undertook that completely contradict the role and commitment of the us towards the peace process. it is ironic that the american administration still talks about what they call the deal of the century. the palestinians believe that by his actions it's not just that president trump is not synonomous broker he's actively on israel's side and when you listen to the way it's a news conference before he left new york he described the man he's put in charge of peace efforts his own son in law jared kush no it's not hard to see why i think the two state will happen i think we're going to go down the two state road and i'm

glad i got it out and jared who is so involved he loves israel he loves his you know but he's also going to be very fair with the palestinians you understand it takes two people to be happy to groups of people to be happy everybody is going to be happy and that's why it's so tough the fact he barely mentioned the palestinians i think shows the confidence of benjamin netanyahu in what's going to come out of the chair of cushion the peace plan which we're being told we revealed in the next four months the palestinians meanwhile already i think believe they're going to have to reject what's in that plan james bays out zero at the united nations now britain's middle east envoy believes that the u.s. has lost its role as the only mediator and the israeli palestinian conflict blame president trump decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and hold out of there as mike hanna that other parties in the region need to be involved. i think we can understand the united

states' determination to find do something to break the deadlock but we wouldn't have chosen this we believe very fundamentally that share jerusalem is at the heart of issues between the palestinians and the state of israel and we know that that's a view that shared by very many so was an understanding and an american determination to look at that intractable nature problem say what can we do the make a difference we wouldn't have chosen and we don't regard is jerusalem as being taken off the table it must be a subject for final status negotiations and i think the united states' position is the only interlocutor or the honest broker is probably more difficult after a series of united states decisions i think i must be honest in relation to that they are however still fundamental which is why we urge all parties to stay in contact with the united states and the united states to stay in contact with them but it would appear to us that when the proposals are brought forward by the envoys

that others will come in in order to help assist the process ultimately of course it's got to be between the state of israel and the palestinians they other people who must make an agreement but i hope that there is space then the e.u. and friends and others can work with the envoys in the united states who as i say remain fundamental if not the only broker to see what we can do to secure the agreement that has been so long awaited. now the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has received contributions of one hundred eighteen million dollars after the u.s. pulled its funding the agency was facing a financial crisis after president trump support last month the u.s. had been its largest contributor providing around three hundred fifty million dollars a year. sixty eight million dollars this year as it helps more than five million palestinian refugees. we are very much obliged to all our partners who contributed in organizing this event today sweden germany the e.u.

and turkey today was an expression of a clear and coherent international stance that must continue. it's very important as a step it's also a symbol and it's a hopefully a last push to be able to close the shortfall before the end of the year you know some makes the difference between keeping the schools open or having to close them keeping the clinics open or having to close them and that makes a very big difference for people in the region for decades the u.s. was a key contributor very consistent generous the single largest donor to iraq that actually enabled us to do a great number of things in terms of human development in the region. the c.e.o. is on musk has been challenged for what he's accused of misleading investors over twitter and all that said he secured funding to take the electric car makers private regulators to seeking financial penalties and trying to remove mufc from this position how does your cost or has more from washington d.c. . the regulators now suing the law must from the federal security and exchange

commission says this all started with a tweet in early august musk tweeted to his twenty two million followers that he was considering taking tesla private at a price per share of four hundred twenty dollars federal regulators say there was never a real basis for musk to make that happen and in fact the way he came up with the four hundred twenty dollars valuation of hoarding to the lawsuits is strange itself it alleges that musk made a general estimate and then round of that number up to four hundred twenty because of the numbers significance to the marijuana culture claiming musk said that it would amuse his girlfriend while the s.e.c. regulators say this was not amusing at all.