workers into the northern mariana work force. number three, this is peaps the important one, to eure that no u.s. worker is at a competitive disadvantage compared to any non-u.s. worker or is going to be displaced by a non-u.s. worker. but until that time is accomplished, this bill will have some flexibility on those caps, and it will be permitted to extend beyond the 2019 date to 2029 so we can see how it does or does not work. this bill gives necessary relief to the northern marianas. so i want to thank the gentleman from the northern marianas, mr. sablan, for working with us on this bill. i'm also grateful for the government of the northern marianas. governor torres has been in constant communication with us. he supports what we are trying to do. oddly enough, i want to thank our colleagues in the senate. they drafted somewhat an inartful piece of legislation. so we have to come at it one more time. there is agreement this is the proper thing to do so this commonwealth can actually maintain a steady work force and maintain an

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mar mariana is there. who is attending the protests in downtown los angeles, mariana? >> reporter: david, there are already hundreds of people here, and this rally hasn't even gotten officially underway. we're expecting the mayor of los angeles, eric garcetti. we're expecting senator kamala harris. we're expecting celebrities, like laverne cox. also, the hispanic community of l.a. so many people here who are first or second generation latino, who say they are outraged at what's happening. the number you pointed out, 2,047 children who still remain separated from their families. people like kris martmartinez, with her 2-year-old baby girl. it's hot out here. you've been standing here for an hour. why did you want to be here today? >> well, my family is an immigrant family. i'm a first generation, born here. my daughter will be a second. it breaks my heart to think that parents are having their children removed. i have a 2-year-old. the idea of someone taking my child is terrifying. so, i think a lot of us are here, feeling the same way. >> reporter: thank you so much fo

mariana, tell us why it's so dangerous where you are right now. i think we've lost mariana's audio unfortunately. >> reporter: right here, the city of reynosa in mexico, there's a turf war going on between two cartels, to the point where again, we had to come here with a security detail. we're in this shelter where i just want to show the amount of guards that we have, just guarding that one entrance over there. there is one pastor in the shelter who even warned us not to look outside, through that gate, because it could be potentially very dangerous. this is one of the most damgs ci -- dangerous cities in northern mexico. and may i add, for some local context, there's a presidential election happening in mexico on july 1st. and yesterday, every single one of these presidential candidates condemned this policy by the trump administration. the leader, the front-runner saying, he will not play donald trump's dirty politics. katy? >> mariana, stay safe. thank you very much. gadi schwartz, thank you, as well. julia ainsley, always, thank you to you. g

. >> mariana atencio you heard of many stories there. >> reporter: i continue to hear those stories. that's what makes this shelter different from the detention center that we have been reporting on in brownsville, texas, where they are keeping these children. for them this is a place it is refuge for everything they have been through. we have been hearing stories o f family separation within detention. especially children being separated from their adult fathers. that's something that would have happened and happened during the obama administration. what is different now is that these people know that they are some of the lucky ones, they're actually here united and something very different of what we we are seeing with those folks across the street from here at the federal courthouse who are being prosecuted by crossing the border legillegall. i want to talk to a parent who suffered from this trauma because it was still so traumatic and just to see what this family is going through. >> you came with your boy and separated in detention for several days, how many is he? >> just five.

. >> mariana nos tiene un reportaje desde las calles coloridas de rusia, vamos a verlo. >> hola amigode dÓnde son? >> de colombia! ¿quÉ es lo que les ha gustado mÁs de rusa hasta ahora? >> los rusos. >> los rusos no, las rusas son ojos azules... ♪ ♪ oye, dime ¿cuÁnto cuesta este gorro? >> 500 rubros. >> me estÁ haciendo descuento, yo creo que sÍ lo voy a comprar, ¿quÉ tal? se me ve bonito? >> sÍ. >> les voy listos para una serenata. >> claro. >> a ver, cÓmo va? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ estamos aquÍ con mi amiga irina que me va a enseÑar cuales son los regalos mÁs aÍ en la tienda. >> primero es matrioska, significa la familia la madre con los niÑos, la grande tiene 30 niÑos. >> o sea que aquÍ se puede venir a comprar y ofrecen vodka. >> tomamos de mÉxico >>compatotas. >> viva mÉxico. >> a ver arriba. >> vamos a hacer un brindis aqÍi a lo ruso. >> y ♪ ♪ espero hayan disfrutado nuestro recorrido me la pasÉ increÍble me comprÉ mi gorro, hablamos y hasta me tomÉ un vodka. >> oye, muy gracias mariana por ese maravilloso reportaje. >> yo quiero ir de compras asÍ de esa manera. >> ahora voy, estaba jugando fi

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mike: mariana? no problem. i wasn't sure if you got my e-mail.oing this for 20 years, and i'm super frustrated with myself because i sent the printer a mix-up on the art. it's just inverted. mariana: ugh. mike: it still looks cool, but i was, like, 440 shirts printed. we can no problem, you know, of going back, but... john: hey, mariana, this is john. mike: wait, let's -- john: well, look. so real quick, what i was hoping for is that you could take these shirts. it's hard to even see the difference. you could take these shirts at a small discount. mike: yeah, yeah, i'm -- yeah, there's two things. we're gonna fix it. not a problem. awesome. thanks, mariana. we'll talk to you soon. lemonis: what do you think i'm gonna ask you right now? john: just reprint the shirts 'cause they're wrong. lemonis: why are you involved in his situation? if he made the mistake, whatever it is, he was working on it. john: i felt like he wasn't gonna give her an option of, like, "hey, you want these at a discount price?" that's all. mike: but i told you, "please let me

msnbc's jason soboroff and mariana atencio are both in mcallen, texas. also joining me from washington, julia ainsley, nbc's national security and justice reporter. jacob, you are down there. you've seen it. give us a fact check on the president. >> reporter: it's not true, katy. it's not true that this is a democrat policy. it is not true that this is unusual to -- not unusual, rather, as the attorney general said. and it is not true that this is anybody else's responsibility other than the president of the united states. this is a policy that was put into place by the white house. it is the policy that has made what's going on in the building behind me, the epicenter of family separation in the united states possible. over 1,100 children since april have been separated from their parents in this building and throughout this sector here, the rio grande valley sector of the border patrol. yesterday we went in there for the first time since this policy was announced. journalists were allowed in. as you said, cameras were not allowed in. everything we were

my colleague mariana atencio is on site. and i'll sit down with former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. we'll have the physician from the american academy of cs to talk about the trauma to children. >> the most traumatic thing to do to a kid, straight them from their parents once they've made that dramatic journey. i understand we have an immigration debate going on in this country. why use these kids as leverage? >> well, i certainly don't want anybody to use these kids as leverage. i saw a headline that i objected to very forcefully. let me say this. these children -- >> in fairness, it was a white house official who told "the washington post" the thinking in the building is to force people to the table. >> i want that person to say it to my face. i'll meet them at the white house today because i think that's a disgrace. >> president trump's scheduled to visit capitol hill on tuesday to meet with white house republicans, including congressman will hurd of texas. he receives on the homeland security committee. he ju

msnbc correspondent mariana atencio in mcallen, texas, for us tonight. in brownsville, texas, manny fernandez, houston bureau chief for "the new york times." and here with us in new york, eli stokols, white house reporter for "the l.a. times." understanding we have a bit of a satellite delay down to texas tonight, mariana, tell us how you spent your day there and the kinds of stories you're hearing. >> brian, i was at a shelter run by catholic charities a couple of blocks from the ursula processing center behind me, where i just want to emphasize over 1,100 children are spending the night alone, away from their parents. these are the children's parents who were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally. but at this shelter, where i've actually spent four days now, you see people who cross the border illegally with their children, were processed by i.c.e., and actually released with ankle monitors because nbc has learned that the zero-tolerance policy isn't even at 100% capacity yet. dhs told our jacob soboroff that they're at 60% capacity. so there ar

there is an ignorance therein, a lack of nuance, with those seeking amnesty as mariana has described. cal, walk us through the distinction that the president seems to be missing. >> reporter: the incrennel thing is you learn down here, and mariana can attest as well as anybody. what happens in these courts. it was shocking to me. they come in en masse, and the judge asks them to plead. everybody uss are you guilty? and everybody goes, si. and they get them out of the courthouse. it's crazy. it gets more complicated when you're talking about the kids. what often happens is the parents end up being deported, the kids end up in a camp behind me. when the president says what we should do is turn people around and send them back without any due process, while there's certainly a lot of due process in existence now, what he's talking about frankly is a violation of international law, david. >> we've been fixated on this number 2,053. that department says that's the number of children still in custody and what and other colleagues have been reporting throughout the day, those children could

what are you hearing, mariana? >> reporter: here in the valley is outraged -- standing right in front of the that processing center that jacob describe. you can see not even the 100-degree heat is deterring many families, and lets children inside know that they have a base of support out here in the community. one of the voices of if the support is congressman bela. you represent the valley. can you tell us how how important it is to be out here. >> what this country is seeing today is -- for 2,000 children or more to come, is the american dream turning into an american nightmare. all because the president of the united states has decided to impose the zero-tolerance policy. >> reporter: for you to be here -- i understand -- to welcome other members of congress, so that -- how critical is it especially for all these people here? >> i think it's critical for lawmakers across this country to understand what is different about this unaccompanied minor surge from back in -- that's different from what happened back in 2

let's go to msnbc's mariana atencio who joins us in los angeles. i know the rally doesn't start there for 25 minutes but what are you seeing? >> the crowds have arrived alex. this rally about to get under way in los angeles. angela, y -- angelica what worke you doing? >> this administration has come to an all time low and dialed up the pain and suffering to our community. it's unacceptable that we are ripping small children from parents and not being able to reunite them. there is a court case that says babies have to be reunited within 14 days, older children within 30. it's up to us to make sure that becomes real. we need to tend zero tolerance policy criminalizing immigrants for seeking asylum after warning away from war, the worst violent but it's up to us as americans in a unified way to demand justice and humanity. >> alex, one of the things that they are asking folks who come to the rally is to donate to help them in the reunification efforts. real quick, angela how are you helping families get reunited in california? >> there is a whole gro

>> msnbc's mariana atencio. mariana, your reporting has been stellar. thank you so much for staying on top of this and allowing us to actually see what is happening rather than just hearing it from the administration. you've been doing excellent work. please stay on us. >> joy, thank you for your platform. thank you so much. >> thank you, my friend. i appreciate it. dr. tracy gardener, marie elena, and democratic congresswoman fredrica wilson of florida me. congresswoman, you and i have been on tv talking about your advocacy for bring back our girls. this was about the girls in nigeria who were taken by boko haram and spirited away and their families didn't see them in some cases for years. 300-plus girls. it is incredibly ironic to me, congresswoman, you are back asking where are the girls? a similar question but it's about our government, our government. we're going to show a map here that shows the states with shelters and sort of where these kids have been spirited away to. that's a map showing they've gone all over the country including in homestea

that's even with those hundreds who mariana saw being prosecuted in the courthouse. now they want to send more resources to the border to increase the number of beds they can use for children, to increase the judges that they can use for the prosecutions and the people at border patrol who are the initial people who take in these families and separate them. so by streaming resources to the border, we may see more and more children. as of yesterday we learned nearly 2,000 children were separated in six weeks. if you look back at how many children were separated previously before this went into effect on may 7th, it was only 1,800 over 17 months. so what we are seeing is a huge surge in separations and that is likely to rise. >> i'm not going to play a piece of tape here of the president saying it's a democrat issue, it's up to the democrats to deal with because they've caused all of this because it's not true. it's something republicans can deal with on capitol hill, they control both houses of congress. a more conservative bill is drafted by a republican from virgini

>> thank you so much, mariana. thank you, jacob, for this important, important reporting. kirstjen nielsen earlier said that the media is lying to you. the media is not lying. look at those images. listen to those people. we have seen how people crossing illegally can be separated from their children, but it is also happening, in some cases, with those who are seeking -- some are not seeking asylum. there are people crossing illegally. many of these people are legally seeking asylum. i want to talk through how that process is playing out at the southern border. first, a migrant arrives at the u.s. port of entry. migrants are typically held by border agents for up to three days while they wait to seek an fficeror screening. this is where children and parents are separated due to the federal rulings that children cannot be locked up. boys and girls are split up. parents are given a sheet of paper with information regarding their children's status and location. parents arei.c.e., waiting to face a judge with an ankle monitor. their children are reclassified orr is then suppos

mariana atencio traveling with the first lady near tucson, arizona. with us. you are seeing on your screen. protests that are taking place around the country. earlier we showed you brownsville texas. this is capitol hill. demonstrations are taking place. we have seen portland, oregon. here at the capitol here. against the zero tolerance policy. the exact status of that zero tolerance policy as cal perry was telling you is very much in doubt after that court ruling, the ruling from a judge the other day. >>> more breaking news, also on capitol hill, inside one of those buildings on i capitol hill. this involving a conhe tension hearing we showed you a little bit earlier. it's underway now in the house where deputy attorney general red rosenstein and fbi director christopher ray are appearing before the judiciary committee. here is just one of the joemts from this afternoon. >> all this was at the same time that this fbi agent said a trump presidency would be f'ing terrifying and that will never happen. no, no. we'll stop it. he was talking about impeac

councilwoman in rio de janeiro stage and a champion of human rights in march a party comrade of her as mariana franco was gunned down she had publicly called out the police for brutality and resolutely denounced the military intervention on the way throughout the state. they killed her body but not have voiced. to lydia patro natanz a deaf ear to the. death threats to carry on the fight now with more determination than before. now five. hours a day saying listen we're not giving up the fight but a vigil in memory of the municipal politician marielle franco nearly a month after. councilwoman tell your patroller mourns her dead comrade at the scene of the crime in rio she demands an investigation. as pain will never pass. so many of us are feeling it but we're turning it into resistance. i say no to the military intervention they chant one month after the killing all that's been revealed is that the bullets come from the police munitions. this is a political crime designed to silence everyone marielle stood up for the people of the favelas the black people women l g b t people the state is behin

mariana down in the. valley . it was the night i began i don't think we are going up in my estimation most people applauded her most people agreed with her and respected her for what she said and for addressing these issues nobody before criticize the fact was the women's rights situation she did receive threats from fundamentalist religious quarter as many years. on at least one extremist website that was reportedly discussion of how. killed the boy dancing with one poster going so far as to ask for dresses. even getting into saudi arabia was difficult for the filmmakers the religious police is omnipresent stephanie parkhouse shot with small cameras dressing like the local women there are often complications like this but believe. this this can really. cover your face regarding what about your camera ready but there are cameras. inside so you think it was difficult to shoot in saudi arabia because people are not used to being filmed again especially the women this is always problematic because they cannot show th

>> thank you, mariana, thank you for reporting.ia teresa and karine and mariana will be back later. >>> the government still has no idea how they're going to are reunite all of these thousands of migrant children with their parents who they took them from and things are about to get worse. worse. we'll discuss when we come back. this is important for people with asthma. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with severe eosinophilic asthma. don't use fasenra™ for sudden breathing problems or other problems caused by eosinophils. fasenra™ may cause headache, sore throat, and allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells yo

socialist party took the oath of office before he will now lead the country after ousting his predecessor mariana hoeing in a no confidence motion in parliament the vote was called off to pressure grew on to resign following up corruption scandal involving his conservative party meanwhile in cuts alone is new leader kim tourists or in his new cabinet. earlier i spoke with ferdinando in his a professor for political science at the a total mess university of legit and i asked him what's the number one challenge for spain's new prime minister. well i think it is indeed catalonia but. you know it in perspective i would say what he has to do is to first to create an effective government handle with with the not backing in parliament in order to be capable of introducing some very needed measures revolving. their regeneration of the political office or a situation particularly. achieving it was asians with was cut only of course catalonia at the forefront of his challenges and now the new separatist catalan president king tara wants independence talks with the new spanish prime minister what concession

the oath of office before king philip he will now lead the country after ousting his predecessor mariana hoary in a no confidence motion in parliament the vote was called after pressure grew a whore to resign following a corruption scandal involving his conservative party meanwhile in barcelona catalonians new leader kim torah story in his new cabinet earlier i spoke with ferdinando via spin he's a professor for political science at the autonomous university of the dreaded and i asked him what the number one challenge for spain's new prime minister federer such as would be. what i think it is indeed. but. you know. perspective what he has to do is to. create a. government saddle was not backing in parliament in order to be capable of introducing some. very needed measures regarding the. regeneration of the political aisle for a situation that you can really. achieve it was asians because i don't know what catalonia at the forefront of his challenges and now the new separatist catalan president came torah once independence talks with the new spanish prime minister what concessions do you

now, over time, some of it sinks, even into the mariana trench, the deepest part of the ocean. in one shocking discovery, it was found in tiny animals living nearly 11,000 metres down. that is almost seven miles. so, what happens to it? well a plastic bag could remain in one piece for up to 20 years. a styrofoam cup might well last for 50 years. even though it was just used once. while a plastic bottle could last around a50 years. they are designed to be strong. and then? well, plastic does not go away, it just breaks down into ever smaller fragments. and these micro plastics are getting everywhere and they will last for thousands of years. a river in the philippines sending plastic into the oceans. dozens of countries have pledged to try to stop this. in kenya, you can be jailed for selling plastic bags. other governments have tough laws, but do not enforce them. a slum community in delhi. india says it will ban single use plastics by 2022. a massive commitment to end scenes like this. david shukman, bbc news. hello and welcome to sportsday. coming up on the programme. we hear

mariana atencio is at the rio grande valley. what have you been hearing from those inshelter right there on the border with mexico? >> david, we're here all day yesterday. we spoke to over 100 people. you see the volunteers getting ready for the next batch of families to be dropped off here by authorities. here in mcallen texas is where it is playing out. across from here is the federal courthouse. you have 74 cases just in the morning and offer 30 were a family separation. the public defender's office told me that just in a two-week span of june, almost 400 children were taken from their families. so that's 187 children in the first week of june and 176 in the second week of june. meanwhile, for those families who did cross the border illegally but were not prosecuted, the fear of separation, even in these detention centers is very real. i spoke to a father and son at this very center this morning who underwent that and told us about their harrowing ordeal inside detention. let's hear it. santana, even though you weren't prosec

ese fue el Último dÍa en que mariana de jesÚs vio al niÑo. en libertad. abogados expertos creen que este caso podrÍa abrir las puertas para cientos de inmigrantes que se encuentran en situaciones similares. >> creo que esta deberÍa ser el paso a seguir para otras familias donde el adulto salga de la detenciÓn y todavÍa queden los menores detenidos, para que se le pueda forzar al gobierno a que comunique el gobierno con los padres y los hijos desde la localidad. y tambiÉn los entregue. vilma: con la demanda, la madre busca que le devuelvan a su hijo. los abogados de la madre guatemalteca esperan que el caso de la demanda se ha escuchado en una corte, antes de que termine la semana. nosotros, por otra parte, contactamos a ice para pedir detalles pero no hemos recibido respuesta. regresÓ mcallen con ustedes. ilia: regresando que a la zona,h al menos cinco gobernadores, dos de ellos republicanos, se han negado a desplegar tropas de la guardia nacional o la estÁn retirando de la frontera, esto en rechazo a la polÍtica indocumentadas. los ilias gob

my colleague, mariana, is there in los angeles, in downtown l.a.t is more so the case in los angeles. tons of people coming out for this event. who is is there? what are you hearing from them? what can they expect as the rally continues? >> reporter: david, we all saw the lead singer of black-eyed peas, who sang "where is the love?" where is the love for the 2,047 children who remain separated from their children? john legend we just heard from. he has cared about the issue of immigration, of immigrant detenti detention, for a while now. i had the opportunity to visit eloy detention facility in arizona with john legend two years ago. he wanted to sing bob marley songs to the immigrants there. just to see what conditions these people are held in when they cross the border, seeking asylum, looking for a better life. very happy to see the consistency there on behalf of john legend. let me walk you through the crowd so you can see the signs there. make america care again. images for the border control. pick something your own size. oh, wait, referencin

joining me from homestead is msnbc correspondent mariana mariana atencia. ask you where people are being asked to plead guilty and what you know about the hearings. what is that process? what happens to the people who plead guilty? . >> reporter: joy, good morning to you. i have been inside that federal court room in mccallen, texas. there are three buses that head there every day early in the morning with migrants who crossed the border as early as the very same week, a couple of days before. they cross the border and that is a misdemeanor. they are brought inside that courtroom in shackles. it is extremely humiliating to witness. shackles on their feet and hands. they tell me, the lawyers do because i wasn't allowed as a journalist inside the courtroom to speak to any of the migrants, the lawyers tell me they only get to meet them just an hour before if at all to tell them what their rights are and they were advised to sit in that courtroom where the judge is explaining everything to them in english, they were advised to plead guilty so if they were separ

mariana atense i don't, who has been doing incredible reporting is joining us there. i know that you had a lot of protesters behind you still gathered to come out against this policy, separating cren from their parents. what have you been hearing so far? >> reporter: i can tell you they're out here in the 100-degree heat, but they've been screaming and chants so the children know they are not alone. this is a community that's come toes in support of the families. we know the processing center to our left, and now from what these lawmakers are telling you is housing these families and these children. this is the epicenter of where this family separation is happening. it is in there where these kids are being yanked from their parents. so as lawmakers said, this is something that's being manufactured by the administration, so this crowd behind me, organized but several organizations, they are out here to put pressure on the administration. we heard senator merkley tell it as well. now look at the crowd that is behind us now. they know that they are garnering some sort o

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mariana, we talked about a group of migrants apprehended at the border last night. one of the women was six months pregnant. i want you to walk through what this process is for the border control. it's very difficult. it's very dangerous for these people. anyone who is saying they're making a walk, a stroll, a jog, a swim across a stream to get here is straight up lying. these are life and death. >> it is not walking through central park. these people are risking their lives coming over, and they're at the hands of smugglers. these are the real bad guys extorlting families. $15,000 for every central american on average taken across the border illegally. and we've embedded with the border patrol to give our viewers what happens when the families leave central america before they even cross the border. what happens to these children? it's incredibly dangerous. and yesterday our nbc news cameras were embedded with the border patrol as we saw a group being smuggled over yrkd incl, a woman that was six months pregnant. i want to show the reaction of the agent in charge o

mariana, we say hello to you, my friend. i know you've been speaking with some of the families there. what are they telling you? >> reporter: alex, these are some of the families who have crossed the border as recently as this week. but they have not been prosecuted for doing so. and that's why they're in thing migrant shelter right now with their children. that's the way we're seeing this zero tolerance policy play out here on the ground in mccallen, texas. on the one hand, you have jeff sessions saying everyone who crosses the border will be prosecuted. and in the federal courthouse across the street, i witnessed mass prosecutions, over 100 people being charged and several being separated from their families. but on the other hand, you have families like santana and his 11-year-old son danny who crossed the border this monday and who were not prosecuted. dhs telling nbc news they're not at 100% capacity. still the fear and that separation, even in their case, inside the deengs centers like the ones you've been talking abou

mariana, you've been talking all week with mothers who have been trying to come to the u.s.t have you been hearing today? >> willie, these mothers are desperate. not for themselves, but for their children. the levels of violence that they're fleeing in central america have forced them here to the other side of the hidalgo bridge where i'm standing. i spoke to half a dozen mothers in reynosa, mexico, they're waiting to see if they're going to cross to the u.s. border or not. now with the risk that their children, they get prosecuted, will be taken from them. they're waiting out this decision in one of the most dangerous cities in mexico, where i spoke to patricia, a young mother from honduras, who has her seven-year-old child there. this is the kind of violence that she told me she was fleeing from. let's play a little of my conversation with her in spanish from mexico yesterday. tell me about where you're fleeing from in our country. i want to understand what you guys are going through. i'm fleeing violence, i'm fleeing the gangs. there is no future for our children. and you

. >> let's bring in mariana atencio in laredo, texas. gentlemen, stay with me, as well.ariana, you've been down there talking to just not families and those trying to cross the border but you've also been out with customs and border patrol. i want your take on this. the president is bringing out these angel families -- sorry, i know your camera's moving. don't worry, we got you. the president's bringing out these angel families and he's telling the american public that people crossing the border are dangerous and they could kill your family. nobody's -- everyone feels very badly for these families that have had these tragedies ha. to them, there is no question of that. how do you see the dichotomy today between what the president is doing and what you've been seeing at the border? >> reporter: katy, at the end of the day, many of the people who want to cross are human beings. we've been speaking to mothers who crossed in the past two weeks. during our coverage in the past few days here on the ground at the border. they are individuals that are fleeing extremely high leve

. >> mariana atencio is in tucson arizona. she is there, where the first lady is touring. >> ali, the first lady didn't tour this child migrant stelter behind me. she toured a tucson coordination center, which is a facility where these families, the children who are apprehended at the border, where they are taken for the intake, where they take down information, the countries they are coming from and their ages. basically then they figure out what to do with these folks. there were ten boys ages 14 to 17 there, witnessing the first lady's second visit to the border. also a mother with a 3-year-old son. and the first lady having interactions with them. also showing her support for those officials, the customs and border patrol folks who have been working, you know, through and through to receive these families, to welcome them, and to figure out if they are going to hand them over to i.c.e. or if they are from mexico, turn them back to their countries of origin. so there has been a lot of discussion as to the kind of pressure t

craig. >> mariana artencio, thank you. gady schwartz, again, he is in guatemala.hat are people there, what are they facing before they get to the united states? what happens when they get deported back? >> first of all, one of the things that struck us is as soon as we got here, people know we're from the united states, the question they ask is how is that family separation happening in the u.s.? they don't understand how the government could do that to families. so it's a question we're asked over and over again. i want to show you where we're at right now. this is where deportees are brought. this is the back side of the air force here in guatemala. you were asking a little bit about what people escape here. they're escaping some pretty brutal violence. in fact, we've been seeing a lot of these buses. this is one of the areas where people come. i'll show you those buses as they come down. this area is where those deportees are dropped off. we're waiting to hear whether or not these planes from i.c.e. carrying about 150 deportees is coming. we've been talking a l

mariana atencio is with customs and border agents. >> reporter: we're trying to understand the perilous that these families and kids even take to get to the u.s. border, a journey the president on twitter is calling a walk in central park. it is ed deadly. we've embedded with the border fa tro patrol here. tell us quickly why we have stopped here? >> this is the background of the terrain that these human smuggling organizations, these criminals put theirictims through to come and bypass our checkpoints to get close to a state highway to get into the u.s. this here is an indicator of how or what the train looks like for these smugglers to get their people across. >> craig, they put these kids, families, through barbed wire, through fences like this one. it is the smugglers that are profiting from these families and these children. what is the going rate, on average, for essential american to bring them over? what do they pay these smugglers? >> the smugglers are charging from $10,000 to $15,000 a person to get smuggled into the u.s. and further into the united states of america. >> is th

stephanie. >> mariana, thank you. this is stunning. i just want to remind our audience, again, there's maur yawn that on the front lines with the border agents. realize it takes time for the process to make its way through but when the president signs an executive order and says ivanka didn't like it, things are going to change, please know, they haven't changed yet. lives matter. >>> up next, money, power, politics. a brand-new south carolina auto plant, less than a day old, is already worried about having to cut jobs -- all because of president trump's tariffs. i'm alex trebek, here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54. alex, what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? also