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dr. colleen kraft, president of the american academy of pediatrics, and martha mendoza of the associationanks so much. >> thank you. >>hank you. >> woodruff: the challenges of immigration policy begin far from the u.s.-mexico border. the first step is a family-- usually central american-- starting a long, desperateh. journey no for years the newshour has reported on the reasons why so many people take such enormous risks to get to the united states.af foreigirs correspondent nick schifrin revisits a few of. their stor >> reporter: the primary reason men, women, and children risk such a perilous passage north, is because it is safer than staying at home. for these people, the united states represents the opportunity for a better life. and the southern border of the u.s.s the difficult-to-reach destination. many are from the area known as the northern triangle of el salvador, guemala, and honduras, where civil wars in the 1980s left a legacy of weak governance and economies, and lautal violence. and as i discovere year, many of their journeys begin with a little optimism and a lot of faith.

dr. colleen kraft is a pediatrician and recently toured one of the shelters here. is it hyperbole to call this a form of child abuse? >> i would not call that hyperbole at all. i mean, this is government-sanctioned child abuse. we are putting these children in a very dangerous situation because we're removing the one most-important buffer in their life, and that is their parents. >> just to reiterate, our cameras are being barred from showing you what's happening inside these facilities where children are being held. the only video you're seeing is what we get from the government and what they have allowed us to see. our colleague has been inside, one of the few allowed in. jacob, take us inside. what were the things that immediately stood out to you? >> there's so much debate, lester, over whether or not there are cages in there. before i went in, that's what everybody was talking about. the first thing that you noticed. they look like dog kennels. to see human beings inside there is not just adults, not just families, but it's an increasing amount of children eve

reunited again with their loved ones and potentially could become orphans well earlier i spoke to dr colleen kraft the president of the american academy of pediatrics she warned that children who are separated from their parents as a young age can suffer permanent and irreparable trauma. when what we call toxic stress which is this unbuffered rise in your stress hormones what we know is that the younger you are when you develop this or you have this inflicted upon you the more likely you are to develop long term brain damage and many of these kids will remember this many of the will remember it not be able to tell us about what happened or what they were thinking during that time and that makes it much more difficult when they are back with their parents and we are looking at trauma and forms type of therapies for them because some of these kids are going to need to really pull out and some of these kids are really going to help to calm down because of externalised behavior. much of the media coverage of this issue is centered on a photo of one hundred and child crying aboard although she was not

will we be also talking to dr colleen kraft she's the president of the american academy of pediatrics she warns that children full so be separated from their parents as a young age can develop serious medical problems in later low life. when what we call toxic stress which is this unbuffered rise in your stress hormones what we know is that the younger you are when you develop this or you have this inflicted upon you the more likely you are dead develop long term brain damage and many of these kids will remember this many of the will remember it not be able to tell us about what happened or what they were thinking during that time and that makes it much more difficult when they are back with their parents and we are looking at trauma and forms type of therapies for them because some of these kids are going to need to really pull out and some of these kids are really going to help to calm down because of externalised behavior. much of the media coverage of this issue has centered around one photo of a home during child crying at the border now olu she was not actually separated from he

dr. colleen kraft. >>> coming up, we turn to politics. michael cohen reportedly hires a new lawyer while trump's campaign manager takes a hit at a member of the president's cabinet. all of that next as we continue. >>> multiple news organizations are reporting tonight president trump's former longtime personal attorney michael cohen has hired a new lawyer to handle this ongoing criminal investigation into his business dealings in new york. emily jane fox of "vanity fair" reports, quote, cohen, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, has now hired guy petrillo to represent him. petrillo, a new york attorney who works with clients in criminal and civil matters prosecuted by the government, served as the chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york from 2008 to 2009. after news broke last week that cohen was planning to part ways with his original legal team, speculation grew that he might be willing to cooperate with the government. well, today harvard law professor alan dershowitz, who has become a p

dr. colleen kraft, a practicing pediatrician who is the current president of the american academy of pediatricse has visited shelter where some children have been detained. martdback let me begin with you. what do we know about these shelters, where they are, who is running them? >> sure. we know of three in texas, in e rio grande valley area and a fourth one that's planned for in houston. and they are run by non-profits that run otchheildren's shelters. until march they had been run by a grup called international education service for about 30 years.lt these were ss for youngest children. but in march the government ended that contract. so now two other non-profits are running them. >> yang: and thesare being run, as you say, under contract of the government? >> that's right. so the federal government's office of refugee re will contract with agencies to staff basically 24-hour day care centers and take care of the kids. >> yang: so these are centers desied for children? >> well, actually because until about a month ago the children who were staying with the parents when they were very young,

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dr. colleen kraft. the president of the american academy of pediatrics. she's joining us via skype. doctor, i know you've been to a detention center that how's some of these kids and you are being very frank. you say this is a form child abuse. why? >> this is. so when parents and kids are separated, the effect on the ch. these very, very young children, and i've been to one office refugee resettlement shelter where i saw children who were under the age of 2 years old who were crying and sobbing and they weren't allowed to be consoled or held by the staff workers there, for these young children, the amount of stress hormones that buildsystem, it actually destructs their brain structure. it limits the emotional support, language, gross motor support, d is devastating toir overall development. >> secretary nielsen takes exception to some of the comments like those we've heard. she said a couple of minutes ago -- i'm not going to play it because i think jeff sessions might speak any minute -- but she says, it is important to note these minors are very well-taken care of. she says, don'

dr. colleen kraft who talks about the effect this will have on children who have been separated from theirking. and when i was in the facility, what you see is that these are parents who care about their kids. there's a father whose little boy is laying in his lap. he's rubbing his head. there's another father who -- somebody is hot rodding. there's a father stroking his daughter's hair. there's a mother -- another mother who is just rubbing her daughter's back. these are all people that just say we want a better life and they are willing to risk their own lives to be here. imagine you get here and think finally i made it and then you're separated from your children. or when you'll see them again. that's what's so frightening. you don't know when you'll see them again. chief padilla said they're given a list and told exactly where their kids are going to be. that's not what i saw yesterday. that's not what i heard yesterday either. >> gayle, thank you. >>> republican and democratic presidents have struggled with this issue of illegal immigration. but the trump administration is the first t

dr. colleen kraft says reunification has the potential to be just as fraught as the detention. >> it mayeven difficult once they're reunited with their parents. it may take a long time for this trauma to be resolved and these children to be healed. >> reporter: and experts tell us they have no idea how that reunion my case process is going to work. because no one agency actually knows where all of the parents and kids are right now and some of those parents may have already been deported, david. >> with their children back here in the u.s. in the meantime, do we know how trump administration is planning to reunite separated families? >> reporter: you know, david, just moments ago we actually got information from customs and border protection. for those still in border patrol custody we are reuniting them with parents or legal guardians following prosecutions and they say that the families that are crossing illegally now, those families will be kept together. >> that's just in this morning. >>> in the meantime, let's bring in dan abrams and tom bossert, president trump's former homeland s

dr. colleen kraft, president 6 the -- president of the american academy of pediatrics, an expert from an expert organization about children. she had visited a children's immigration detention facility in texas earlier this month. dr. kraft called what she saw there and the systemic separation of children from their parents, quote, a form of child abuse. according to dr. kraft, once young children are separated from their caregivers or parents, they're likely to develop toxic stress in their brain. the toxic stress disrupts a child's brain development and increases levels of flight or fight hormones in their bodies. this kind of emotional trauma could eventually lead to health problems, such as heart disease and substance abuse disorders. there is well documented, scientific evidence of the long lasting harm that policies like this do to children. a professor of pediatrics at harvard medical school, dr. charles nelson, said in "the washington post" yesterday -- i'm holding the article here. the article is entitled "what separation from parents does to children." quote, the effect is catast