pleasure to have you with us you're on our team today on roller sutured. coming up on r t arizona faces a huge influx of undocumented children across the us mexico border and texas over a thousand are being transported to facilities in the state southern part more on how the u.s. is handling the situation just ahead. and two california counties are suing the world's biggest producers of prescription pain killers it's in response to an addiction epidemic to these drugs producing tragic consequences more on the case coming up. and over one thousand religious leaders call for a change the u.s. prison system they want congress to pass an act that would dismantle aggressive sentencing laws more on that later in the show.

good evening it's monday june ninth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america. the u.s. government is rushing supplies to warehouses in arizona which are serving as makeshift holding centers for over a thousand children who crossed the us mexico border many of them looking for their parents or other family members last month the u.s. department of homeland security started flying immigrants to arizona from the rio grande valley in texas after the u.s. border patrol there was overwhelmed with immigrants including more than forty eight thousand children traveling on their own once in arizona the migrants were told to report to an imminent immigration and customs enforcement office near where they were traveling within fifteen days children are being grouped by age and gender and teenage mothers are kept with their children in their own area arizona governor jan brewer is demanding answers after being caught off guard by the sudden shipment of

people to our state which is scrambling to accommodate the thousands in need of mattresses portable toilets medicines food in appropriate shelter earlier i was joined by privilege jaya paul co-chair of we belong together i first asked her why we're seeing such a massive influx of under-age migrants. well most of the research seems to show that they are coming to escape gang related violence and war related violence in those countries latin american countries so i think this is you know this is a product of what happens when you have unstable countries whether it's economically or politically and these these children are fleeing trying to be safe . so you know say what you want about governor jan brewer's immigration policies you know she got a lot of fans and a lot of people to do not approve but here's what she had to say about this crisis she said i'm disturbed an outrage that president obama's administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy meanwhile neglecting to answer crucial questions our citizens demand and deserve what i learned from federal

officials today only raises more questions about this operation not only does the federal government have no plan to stop this disgraceful policy it also has no plan to deal with the endless ways of illegal aliens once they're released here but what are your thoughts on her statement about this situation and being caught off guard well to be quite honest i don't think jim breuer has done anything to try to fix this issue either really what we need is comprehensive immigration reform that's what the senate recognized that is what we have been trying to push for at the house because that is the most important thing that we need to rectify the immigration system in this country but you know to tie this obviously we know that immigration into this country is also a product of what's happening in a whole countries and so any immigration policy that you have is not going to deal with the totality of foreign policy and so you are still going to have people that are trying to escape unsafe places or economically bereft places trying to come to

the united states and that has to do with america's foreign policy and how what we do to really help stabilize countries around the world and to reduce economic inequality around the world i think jan brewer you know i think the one thing i will say is that i do think that the. ration should have contacted the governor of the state where they were going to how's this facility and if i were the administration i probably went to arizona i don't know what went into that decision but i think that the administration is trying to respond in a humanitarian way to what is clearly a humanitarian crisis you know over a thousand children that are coming to escape by own hands and coming to the place that they believe can provide them with the stability that they need so i think this is an attempt to address that i do think that in the planning and implementation of it consulting the political leadership of the state where you're

going to how's this would have been a good idea and frankly if it were me i would have picked a state other than arizona. so what do you think the foreign consulates in these border states when dealing with an influx of especially young children coming in you know fleeing this instability and violence in their in their home countries do you think that the foreign consulates in these border states have a responsibility. yeah i mean i think that the foreign consulates can play an incredibly important role on a couple of levels i mean one is obviously interacting and working with the u.s. government to figure out what kind of assistance the u.s. can provide and what countries are doing themselves to stabilize the situations in their own countries it's not always something that is easy for foreign government to do i mean if you have economic famine if you think about you know ireland when people irish the first irish immigrants came over to the united states obviously the government was trying to deal with the economic conditions of the same thing in

political conditions but it's because government governments fail at doing that that you have migration in the first place the confluence here i think can play a very important role in particularly and making sure that the children are taken care of helping to provide financial assistance wherever possible and then very importantly i think really trying to make sure that the families of those kids are also notified and that that kids are getting that kind of psychological care as well as physical care that they need you know i'm disturbed by. some reports that i read and i haven't seen those confirmed but i would be very disturbed of kids are being separated from parents in terms of being able to housed being able to be housed so i think that you know in a situation like this any kids that are traveling with parents need to be with their families and so the reunification of families i think is incredibly important and working with the u.s. government to provide whatever assistance possible from the consulates and the and

the and the countries the sending countries. you know to support the needs of the kids i think those are some of the most important roles that the foreign consulates need to play well we've seen reports that the children were being separated by age and by gender and that the the mothers with children were had their own areas to to in these warehouses because as you said choosing arizona in the middle of summer they're had they're putting them in warehouses with the beds and trying to get toilet facilities in there it's blazing hot in arizona in the summertime it just seems like a kind of a crazy choice why do we seem so unprepared for this type of an immigration crisis mean what's the u.s. game plan we're hearing reports of. officials handing out the address to the nearest ice offices to these people and saying go report to the ice office i mean what's going to happen now they bust them in the arizona fly them into arizona and then they just disappear into the population i mean how can we be so unprepared

well look i mean the whole immigration system as a whole has been broken for for a very long time and the response from congress and particularly from republican leadership in the recent months it wasn't always the case by the way but you know i think there were some democrats before that were also against immigration but we are in a situation now where our response has been enforcement and that is because we don't have we have not have the political courage republican leadership in the house in particular has not had the political courage to actually pass an immigration reform bill that. would modernize our system so that when you have refugees and asylum that come into the country when you have unaccompanied minors that there would be very strict and humane ways to respond to that that you would have people be able to get some kind of status that allows us to both keep track of them and so move them through the process and so

instead what we've done is create warehouses essentially i mean it's not that different the detention centers around the country that hold detainees right now congress mandates a certain number of beds that have to be filled so let's just be very clear that our enforcement system as it is is a patchwork of whatever local states want to do and that depends on the political conditions in those states and and it is you know really being fueled by a very profitable detention center. industry that isn't mainly run by private corporations so you know i think the whole enforcement response to this is not just about this particular incident it is an issue that has been. it's been an issue for a while until i and this just highlights it because it's getting attention because jan brewer brought attention to it because it's kids but you know we've been

fighting to make the whole immigration system including the detention system and the enforcement system much more humane and that's what a conference of immigration bill would do and really that is the solution that political leaders like jen brooch. service has issued a flood warning for montgomery county pa effective until tomorrow at six minutes past midnight the national weather service has issued a flood warning for the following pennsylvania counties montgomery and philadelphia effective until tomorrow at six minutes past midnight the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a flood warning for been areas and small streams in southeastern montgomery county

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actions the especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding if flooding is observed act quickly move up to higher ground to escalate flood waters do not stay in areas subject to flooding when water begins rising a flood warning means flooding is occurring or is imminent most flood related deaths occur in automobiles do not attempt to cross water covered bridges dips or low water crossings. district attorneys in santa clara and orange county filed a lawsuit against the major manufacturers of these drugs naming johnson and johnson purdue pharma to the industries and o. health and activists in their lawsuit orange county district attorney anthony rick aka spoke with r.t. over the phone about why he's pursuing these companies in particular are the source they're the ones who are how are creating this whole a dynamic in order to increase their profit and it should spark little regard. to

the to the health a safety of of the people or to extract last week chicago join the fight filing a one hundred twenty six page lawsuit against those same manufacturers and accusing them of a twenty year long conspiracy to increase sales chicago's lawsuit alleges the company's downplayed the addictive qualities of the drugs using so-called front groups to publish biased reports about the benefits and extensive uses of opioids they're also accused of training doctors to turn to these harsh medications more frequently and targeting returning troops says a key demographic back in orange county rick onka says one resident dies every other day from a prescription drug overdose what are after certainly what i'm after is to require these companies to change their behavior and that is to to require them to tell the truth about the about the products the pharmaceutical companies declined comment on

the lawsuits but some say the blame shouldn't only rest on the shoulders of manufacturers about fifteen years ago the medical community began prescribing painkillers more aggressively than we ever had before and as the prescriptions began to increase its lead to parallel increases in rates of addiction and overdose death so in many ways this epidemic was caused by the medical community but for now district attorneys in california and chicago hope their scathing lawsuits will force big pharma companies to change their ways even this not as tough to swallow reporting in los angeles mega lopez r.t. . the latest reports from ukraine's eastern city of slovyansk indicate that once again it's been targeted by government troops the army reportedly stepping up its offensive against militia groups in the region with civilians caught in the crossfire artis policy player brings us more as women and children flee the violence. because even do so still it's not safe for them to stay here after

everything that is happening. we want them to stay alive a vicious wheatfield world families leaving for an uncertain future betray a scary went to sleep at night because the bomb will. every mean. so it's really scary we're making our way to the russian border no one's quite sure how safe this journey is but people here desperate to leave they've been on a waiting list for days the phone call came in the morning giving these women less than four hours to pack up all their belongings and leave give money we don't know what will happen there and for how long the situation will continue we want to return from as quickly as possible but they say they have no choice they simply have to go see one of the airplanes in the bombing said the scariest because you don't know where they're going to fall and when we can't always stay in

a basement because of the small children victoria is traveling with her two daughters and like all the women here she's left behind a husband and family and my grandfather grandmother and my father stayed behind. i told my father and grandmother that i want to come home to them it's a three hour drive to the russian border and we organize it and asked us not to interview him on camera because he says he's giving indications that it's not putting this trip together and many feel torn about taking the decision to leave velour worries about the father he left behind. it's really hard to be good. for you. probably won't see him for a whale on time. due to it's game on him for you even years thousands of women children have already made this journey and thousands more on waiting lists trying to leave the crossing through the ukrainian border of me having to fullness

a little bit discreetly as there are border guards everywhere the people on the banks are preparing their documents and russia the final destination is just a few minutes away. i congratulate the repass and ger with crossing the border to russia. tears of relief but for many here this is just the first difficult step towards an uncertain future policy r.t. on the ukrainian russian border. eleven hundred roman catholic jewish and protestant faith leaders have signed and submitted a letter to congress urging lawmakers to pass the smarter sentencing act which is currently moving through the senate with an accompanying bill getting started in the house the act aims to dismantle mandatory minimum sentencing laws put in place decades ago for many low level and nonviolent drug offenses it's all resulted in skyrocketing prison populations re-offending rates and massive taxpayer expense according to the federal bureau of prisons as of april twenty fourth teen of the

nearly two hundred seventeen thousand people locked up more than one hundred thousand are serving time for drug offenses the runner up right behind that only thirty two thousand and mates doing time for weapons explosives and arson twenty thirty report by the urban institute estimates that just two of the bills provisions could save taxpayers three billion over the next ten years and that doesn't even take into account prison closures or abandoning new prison building projects in the letter of the faith leaders urge lawmakers to support a smarter sentencing act citing their belief in the inherent dignity of all people and that for far too long congress has ignored the consequences of the harsh sentencing policies it approved during the one nine hundred eighty s. and the disproportionate harm it has cost people of color and those convicted of low level offenses we are reminded that scripture commands justice and only justice shall you pursue deuteronomy sixteen twenty joining us to weigh in on the national conversation these numbers have sparked is reverend and t.

meyer program director for the national council of churches thank you very much for joining me this evening now as your role as a faith leader how how does that help you to encourage passes the passage rather of the smarter sentencing act. well thank you i think it's important first to know that there's really broad support of this smarter sentencing act both on both sides of the aisle in congress and broad faith support as well and our role particularly from faith community is to bring up the moral issues and the moral questions in terms of how our prisons have become places of mass incarceration with disparities among racial incarceration numbers being very high among black and brown people in our country and the smarter second act will take some actions that will help us do some incremental changes to make this better so it's faith leaders we call for justice we call for the opportunity for restoring and restoration of people from

prisons to their families the sentencing act looks at addressing people who are low level drug offenders in nonviolent crimes so do restore them to their families is important and calling on the dignity of all people and the opportunity to be restored to communities is the message that we bring is faith leaders let's take a look at inmates most of those incarcerated according to the numbers are relatively young men in their early thirty's and it tapers down from that what are the societal effects of having this large number of young men who should be in their prime you know earning power wise contributing to society they're sitting behind bars what is this effect having on society from your perspective as a faith leader. well i think first of all it's also important to not only note that they're young men but they are deceased disproportionately men of color and having them removed from the communities and out of the communities and separated from

families is very destructive to our larger culture and the opportunity in the smarter sensing act to restore people into the families into their churches into their communities to provide for opportunity them for them to continue to address their own drug addictions within a support of an account a community will help them become strong citizens who pay into the taxpayer base who are a part of our larger culture in society so moving towards restoring these young men into our communities fully is very important to us and we want to as a full culture help to do this in the smarter centers and that will be only one incremental step in making it there the smarter sentencing at putting the sentencing levels related to where the fair sentencing act back in twenty ten place them so the disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine were less and yet

those who were already in prison those changes in sentencing didn't affect them and so this will give the opportunity for them to bring up their case to have their sentence really looked at it's not like if this set smarter sentencing act passed the doors of the prisons would be flung open it's not a huge number of men who will be opportunity for release and they will have to go through a process of review and as i said it's men who are low level drug offenses and nonviolent crimes i think it's also important to note that the increasing population of women in prison is happening as well and so as we continue to look at all of our sentencing across the board we need to keep both those populations in mind and look at laws that are. just unfair and appropriate that help to bring about healing and homeless in our community. well if this bill passes and judges are allowed to give lighter sentences or less harsh prison sentences that is with

more rehabilitative measures do you think this will help reduce the high re-offense rates because you know it's widely known the faith community is is a community that deals with a lot of rehabilitation with people who may have been dealing with addiction or are dealing with a former prison sentence and trying to get work so do you think that judges having the opportunity to rehabilitate will will we see a big change in re offending. i think it will give the opportunity yes for less re offending the smarter sentiments the act still holds minimum sentences for offenders that does give a provision that judges can look at where offenses have happened and the number of fences and so forth so gives a little bit of breathing space there but what's most important is it gives the judges the opportunity to find the best context in which rehabilitation can happen also that lee drug addiction is not so much a crime as it is

a public health problem we need to have more opportunities for drug addiction programs whether in prison or out of prison we need to address the issues earlier on within our schools and earlier on so that we don't have this pipeline to our prisons and having education for everyone and having drug addiction programs to help people from not offending are going to be an important part of growth of our culture and help to stem this this issue well we will definitely see if letters like the ones that you helped to put together and that were sent to congress will have an effect hopefully they will reverend and team our program director at the national council of churches thank you very much thank you very much and before we go this evening don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guests are broadway stars sudden foster and coral here's a bit of larry's chat with sutton. when you read a review you get nervous i decided to suffer reading reviews i read them after

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if you've ever read some of the stories about people getting fired from their jobs for posting stupid stuff on line that had nothing to do with their actual jobs and thought man your personal life on line in your professional life should be treated separately and if i get a protest for you brian's a birdie is a lawyer from delaware and he's a few days into a hunger strike on the sidewalk outside of the supreme court he's there to bring attention to a simple belief that our social lives and professional lives should be separate by law it's a social construct he's been actively fighting for he applied for jobs by sending out a picture of himself in a rolled up t. shirt instead of sending out resumes and he became a sort of viral star for that one he's also posted pictures to facebook of himself

in his underwear well seeking a job as an attorney those were pretty much publicity stunts to raise awareness about the idea of separating personal and professional lives online and while all of that might sound a little bit elitist his message is compelling according to zubair t. we desperately need to adapt our laws now so that we don't face an orwellian nightmare on the job in the not too distant future it will barely posits that in just a few short decades there will be no such thing as privacy and social media or anywhere else in the last century we've gone from a world where no one had even heard of cell phones and everyone enjoyed privacy to a world of google glass and surveillance satellite. as he puts it history has shown us that technological innovation and privacy are inversely proportional concepts that's pretty damn succinct right there so it will vary he says that fifty years

from now we'll have passed through our current information age into what he calls the total information where everyone knows everything about you your neighbors colleagues far east and yes your boss will know if you stay up late at night if you like socially dangerous music if you support causes that aren't in line with the corporate message everything they'll know everything about you and currently most states allow employers to fire people for almost anything we do on mine so right now we're faced with a choice for how to protect our privacy and start shunning technology altogether or start changing laws little birdy things a good first step is to separate our personal and professional lives on line from a legal standpoint and i gotta say he's got a good point for a guy that posts underwear big to facebook tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the risk that.

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