franco ordonez, we would like to ask you to stay with us. when we come back from break, we will talk to a person in mcallen, texas, who is talking about trying to reunite these chilen that the trump administration said as late as last night they have no plans for. they don't know what to do with these 2300 children. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "how long, how long blues" barbara dane. performing yesterday in our democracy now! studios. tonight she is performing at joe's pub. may 12 was her 91st birthday. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we go to mcallen, texas, where we're joined by zenen jaimes perez. he is part of their teen that goes to the federal courthouse in m mcallen each dayay since tp began his zero tolerance policy and collects information from parents who have their children taken away from them before they were taken to court to face criminal charges for crossing the border. can you talk about your response to the executive order and what you have learnede parents who you

we are talking to franco ordonez. renee, your thoughts on coming from the border?e: fort bliss is the other end of texas and it goes to show how many places they are detaining so many children that they need to build a new tent city all the way in el paso. the other thing i would say, to build on what franco is saying is that these facilities were they hold arecompanied children full, but they are full because the children arere being held longeger instead of being released and their being held longer while their sponsors are vetted becauseer in part as we pointed ouout, they have to represent themselves in immigration court. amy: let's go back to that issue of fort bliss where one of the tent cities would be built. who is behind these orders and what is that -- what is the house involvement? tent citiese are still being considered, thiset's remember that is not setting some new precedent. these happened under president obama. they did erect some tent cities on military bases. wastent city that erected was in homestead, in florida. what was there was these massive

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franco ordonez, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. "the new york times" katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning reporter who covers the justice department. and yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "news hour" on pbs. thanks to all of you for being with us. katie, let me start with you. we have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. you cover the justice department, the legal end of this. it sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that executive order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. how clear is that now? >> absolutely. so as you say, this was another self-inflicted wound by the trump administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. so we saw a lot of confusion last night. there was a meeting at the white house where people argued back and forth for at least 90 minutes about what to do. things do seem to have clarifi

strategist for hillary clinton guy cecil and white house correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers fra s franco ordoneze scenes what's going on at the white house. could you see there steve bannon and kellyanne conway aren't defending what is happening. but at the same time not saying it should be stopped. >> there's a difference between bannon and kellyanne conway. b the president said this is the democrats fault, the fact this is a trump administration policy change two months ago going to the zero tolerance enforcement policy that led to the separation of around 2,000 immigrant families and that is something that the white house is really trying to put on democrats on one level and then you have other people steven miller who is really the adviser behind the policy. it tells you this is what he believes in and what he wanted to do for a long time. he convinced the president to go ahead and do it. 's sitting there owning it. steve bannon doesn't have relationship to the administration but he's on tv owning it and other people trying to play to their base and at the same time to shrug and say this isn