what we can achieve under the law, and i think what these families both need and deserve. >> jacob soboroffn that promise. how much of this -- you've watched this process. is it getting better over the last few weeks as they've gotten more people in place, more nominees confirmed? is their excuse turning out to be a correct one which was, hey, they need some time to get up and running? >> i most certainly think that is in part accurate, chuck, and specifically when it comes to the separations there is no doubt about it. you know, it is going to take a long time to reunite the 1,000 families that remain separated by the trump administration, and secretary mayorkas, this was his first sit-down interview in person. he spent a lot of time with me, he invited me into his office to take a look. he wanted to talk about how he is approaching not just the separation issue but immigration policy as a whole. he became emotional while he was talking to me about his parents. of course, he's the first latino and first immigrant to ever head the department of homeland security. he is very focused on the r

jacob soboroff joins me now. he just spoke exclusively with homeland security secretary mayorkas. what does the secretary believe the migrants will be able to do? will they stay here permanently? >> i was surprised to hear the administration is considering allowing entire families, not just the mother or father separated from a child, but maybe siblings or stepparents so that families don't have to re-separate for the reunifications. the bigger question is whether or not their entry into the united states will be permanent as their lawyers are asking for. that's one of the first things i asked secretary mayorkas about when we sat down yesterday. watch this. >> we are very much focused on providing stability to the reunited families and not just for her but for the family as a unit. it's not something we can guarantee at this point in time. we are dedicated to achieving more than what we have delivered thus far. this, i think, is a temporary measure. unite the family, reunite the family and then let's work together with those representing the family to see what we can achieve under

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today nbc news correspondent jacob soboroff sat down with secretary mayorkas and family reunificationier to discuss this. what did you learn from the interviews about how it's going and where it goes from here? >> reporter: we had a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation the first time the secretary sat down with anyone in person and as well as michelle brannier tapped to come out as an oppositional force and run the reunification task force. one of the main things i wanted to know was accountability. was he, is he going to pursue accountability for members of the trump administration responsible for the separation policy. here's what he told me. on accountability, on accountability for those responsible for this policy, the president of the united states called this policy criminal, it's a direct quote. he promise aid thorough, thorough investigation, a direct quote. will there be an investigation into members of the trump administration over this policy? >> we're right now focused on what we achieved just a couple days ago, reuniting families. >> el trulado said yesterday "justic

joining me now is news correspondent jacob soboroff. t seeing more of these unifications. >> reporter: i think it's bittersweet news because when you have 1,000 out of 4,000 separated families, it is welcome news. the administration is celebrating this as good news. these are the first reunifications under the biden's separation reunification task force. these families are from honduras and from mexico. but as i said, the vast, vast majority are still without their children. many of them, most of them having been deported by the trump administration without their kids during the zero tolerance policy, and the advocates will tell you every day compounds the trauma they suffered at the hands of donald trump and his core policy. >> jacob soboroff, jacob, thank you very much. >>> and the u.s. is the only industrialized nation to not provide federal paid leave. in fact, it's almost the only nation in the entire world. but could that soon change? sooe , we're committed to making college more accessible by making it more affordable, that's why

jacob soboroff is following this for us. b, walk us through what led the administration to make this announcement. i know this is something you talked about with the secretary a few weeks ago. >> reporter: that's right. you described it exactly as i would. it's a huge sigh of relief for the haitian-american community. over 100,000 people living in the country. in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, that's the first time they were granted temporary protected status. it was granted throughout the obama administration. the trump administration attempted to pull that back. there were activists waiting because of dire economic conditions, food insecurity in the wake of the pandemic, that they wanted the biden administration to put that into place as quickly as possible. the biden administration allowed 34 deportation flights, according to haitian-american activists. it was something when earlier this month when i was with secretary mayorkas -- i want to show you this clip. >> this is a young boy orphaned as a result of the tragic jan

that's what the secretary of homeland security is telling jacob soboroff in a new exclusive interviewh more from his interview. great work. great to see you. >> thanks. >> we know secretary mayorkas is heading to the border. there's that aspect. tell us about what he told you. explain some of this potential new policy that would actually reunite multiple family members. a mother would not have to decide between reuniting with a mother in the u.s. or her kids at home. >> that's the point. you stressed it, secretary mayorkas said it's not guaranteed. the process they are working on is a 36-month-long parole, permission to enter the united states for the family. the idea of permanent status would be further along and it's highly aspirational for the administration. the other thing is accountability. i'm asked and it's an open question whether people in the trump administration will be held accountable for a policy that the president called criminal and this is what secretary mayorkas told me. secretary neilson signed a memo to make the issue you are fixing today possible. jeff sessions,

1,000 families who had been separated for years finally started the process of reuniting. >> jacob soboroffwas an extraordinary moment good morning to you. it's been over three years, but a handful of families waiting to be reunited after being split up by that controversial trump administration policy will this week have a new beginning, and we went to see for ourselves >> reporter: a moment years in the making for brian and his mom, sandra. a stark contrast to these images from june 2018 the first and only from inside a facility used to house some of the over 5,500 migrant children, some as young as infants, separated from their parents president biden telling craig last week, his administration is working to reunite the more than 1,000 families who remain separated. >> we're still continuing to try like hell to find out where they are. it's a full-blown effort we're making. >> reporter: this is the san ysidro port of enter where brian and his mom arrived to declare asylum in 2017 they were together they were separated. brian was sent to a shelter, saying his mom was in a jail he never sp

the handful of families separated under the trump administration that have now been reunited jacob soborofft spoke with the homeland security secretary. >> reporter: as some families separated by the trump administration reunite this week we asked homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas if they'd be given permanent status >> we are very much focused on providing stability to the reunited families. it's not something we can guarantee at this point in time. >> reporter: over 1,000 families are still separated from the policy ended in 2018 the task force director says there may be more. >> we are finding evidence of separations. we still have to go through and match up data and look at what led to those separations. >> reporter: mayorkas responding to calls for trump officials to face accountability. >> accountability would not deliver necessarily justice for just the families. >> you don't believe that any of those people deserve to be held accountable for their role in this >> that's not what i said what i said was that we are focused on reuniting the families that is the justice that

secretary of the department of homeland security all hundred mayorkas speaking to nbc news's jacob soboroff interview thursday that the biden administration cannot guarantee a path to permanent residency for families separated by trump. >> we are very much focused on providing stability to the reunited families. not just for her, but for the family as a unit. it is not something we can guarantee at this point in time, but we dedicated to achieving more than what we have delivered thus far. this is a temporary measure. reunite the family and let's work together with those representing the fily to see what we can achieve under the law. and i think what these families need and deserve. amy: today the department of public security will visit a -- today the department of homeland security will visit a tent facility for unaccompanied migrant children at the border in donna, texas. this week, dhs released pictures of their tents there, which had previously been packed with children. democratic congressmember henry cuellar said the photos are misleading because the children are still at the same co

. >> i want to bring in jacob soboroff. he has been covering the challenges at the border. this administration faced with this process around this time on friday. now we have the first four mie migrant families set to be reunited. what do we know about them? >> reporter: we know we have been waiting so long. in some cases, over three years. we know that these families have been eagerly awaiting this news, which is no way else to cut it, is very, very good news. it's a start. it's a limited amount of families, but extraordinarily good news. they have been waiting a long time. there are 30 or so families who have have been ready to come back for reunification for many months. the lawyers that represent them wish this would have happened faster. the administration itself is holding this up as a success after you asked the president last week why no families had yet to be reunited. what we know about these families, some come from honduras, some from mexico. all of them were subject to this policy that the secretary said he thought was cruel. >> what do we know about this admin

nbc news correspondent jacob soboroff was there for that reunion. he joins me now.porter: it was an extraordinary moment, ayman. it doesn't take much to see or understand that. this family was separated for more than three years like so many thousands, honestly, of people separated by the trump administration and that zero tolerance policy that deliberately and cruelly took mothers away from their children from the sole purpose to stop them from coming to the country. president biden promised to reunite those families and the first family was reunited. take a look. >> reporter: a stark contrast to these images from june 2018. the first and only from inside a facility used to house some of the over 5,500 migrant children, some as young as infants, separated from their parents. president biden telling craig last week his administration is working to reunite the more than 1,000 families who remain separated. >> and we're still continuing to try like hell to find out where they are. it's a full-blown effort we're making. >> reporter: this is the port of entry where bria

. >> msnbc correspondent jacob soboroff. what a remarkable turn in the story all these years later. thank you for joining us. i'm looking forward to seeing the rest of that interview with brian. thanks. >> reporter: thanks, rachel. >>> again, our lead stwoir that feature with jacob, the biden administration saying the first handful where the child was separated from his parent, the first families who went through this separation policy under the trump administration, the first four families being reunited this week. expected to be the first four out of a thousand families need to go through this process. it is a slow start but finally, finally, finally a start. much more to get to tonight. stay with us. e to get to tonigh. stay with us this is our block. our place. our people. watch the curb. not having a ride to get the vaccine. can't be the reason you don't get it. you wanna help? donate a ride today. ♪ for decades, most bladder leak pads were similar. until always discreet changed that. by inventing a revolutionary pad, that's incredibly thin. because it protects differently. wit

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. >> that was dawn wooten, an chn interview with jacob soboroff w that we showed on this program last year. dawn wooten was a nurse here at an immigration detention facility, an i.c.e. detention facility in irwin county, georgia. and last fall, that nurse filed a whistle-blower complaint with the inspector general at the homeland security department. s she gave a description in that complaint of what was going on inside that facility that was so heinous, it really just felt like the world stopped spinninga for a second. she alleged in her whistle-blower complaint that during her time working as a ha nurse at this i.c.e. detention facility, immigrant women being held there were routinely sent to a gynecologist who would perform unnecessary medical procedures on them, including hysterectomies, without them knowing why they were having that done to them, without it ever being explained to them ng that it was medically necessary, without them understanding the t circumstances under which this was being required of them.an the allegation here was that this american federal facility i was s

the other thing that we got breaking this morning from julia ainsley and jacob soboroff and i know you'veere are now plans for the biden administration to start reuniting some of those families that were separated by that zero tolerance policy under the trump administration. what do we know about how that's proceeding? >> reporter: when craig melvin interviewed the president last week and asked him why haven't we seen any of these family reunited, this task force, the president had focused on it. the president said i didn't think that was right. now we know he knew they had news to announce in the coming days. what the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas announce sd there are four families that have been reunited, one is from mexico, one from honduras, others they can't release too many details, of course, there are privacy issues governing all of this. those families will be given some parole in order for them to reunite in the united states and the administration says they are looking at options to give them a permanent path for remaining here in the united stat

jacob soboroff recently spoke to one young migrant who's expected to be reunited with his mother thiscruel experience that i just hope no one has to go through. they're doing a good job of protecting the kids, but i think they're, like, putting too much attention on protecting them physically but what about emotionally and everything that they're feeling and that they go through by separating from their parents? yes, you're protecting them from whatever they're escaping from, their countries or whatever they had to go through, but you're putting them into even more pain by separating them from their families. >> the border remains a faux talking point for republicans. you may remember in march when a group of gop senators put their border demagoguery stage craft into full effect in texas with ted "crocodile" cruz leading the way complete with patrol boats and machine guns. they spread lies about migrants pouring into our country. it's the same kind of baseless claims about communities of color that texas republicans are now using as they race to enact draconian voter suppression laws

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southern border back together homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas sat down with nbc's jacob soboroffmanent legal status >> reporter: can you guarantee she and the other reunited families will be able to stay in the united states permanently? >> we are very much focused on providing stability to the reunited families. not just for her, but for the family as a unit it's not something we can guarantee at this point in time. we are going to do everything we can to make it work out. >> secretary mayorkas also said not just parents but also siblings of separated children may be able to get permanent legal status here. >>> also this morning, a soldier in training is behind bars in south carolina, accused of hijacking a school bus full of kids and holding them at gunpoint nbc's kerry sanders has more on the terrifying ordeal and how it all unfolded kerry, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, sheinelle. the local sheriff says apprehending the suspect was a community effort here. not only because residents in the area and witnesses were able to dial 911 and direct them to the actual

yesterday, msnbc correspondent jacob soboroff spoke to brian, an 18-year-old migrant who is expecteds just a really cruel experience they just hope no one has to go through. they are doing a good job on protecting the kids, but i think they're putting too much attention on protecting them physically, what about emotionally and everything that they're feeling and that they go through. you're protecting them, whatever they're escaping from their countries or whatever they had to go through, but you're putting them into more pain by separating them from their families. >> according to the white house, 1,000 families are still separated, many of whom had their records lost in the trump years. joining us now, u.s. secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas. thank you for being on. explain the process of trying to reunite these families. what steps are taken and what consideration are made to try to make this process happen? and i assume it won't be possible to reunite all the families? >> thank you very much for having me back. this is our highest priority is to reunite these fami