wednesday, pro publica was listening as the girl called her aunt again from inside a detention center reporter: her aunt didn't want her face shown, afraid speaking owl with affect her own asylum case. it's been a week since the girl and her mom crossed the border. pro publica reporting the girl is in a facility in phoenix, over 1,200 miles from her mother, who is in port isabel, texas. her aunt says mom was told they'd be reunited, but after filling out paperwork she hasn't heard anything else. for the first time since being separated, the mother and daughter talked on the phone on thursday. >> the fact that she was able to memorize this phone number turned out to be a really lucky thing for her. many of the kids who come to this country who are her age or below don't know things like phone numbers. they don't know their parents' full names. but that phone number distinguished her from the rest of the group. >> reporter: those working closely on cases say big part of the problem, two totally different government agencies handle these cases. >> they should be able to put those childre

pro publica has also managed to record the mocking response of a border patrol agent. where i remember we're told that. the. the white house has been defending the administration's zero tolerance policy and its treatment of the children. yes. there's no child we now care for them we have high standards we give them meals we give them education we give them medical care there's videos there's t.v.'s i visited the detention centers myself that would be my answer to that much that. was going to cover those under who's in brownsville texas outside a former wal-mart store which is now being used to house migrant children what's happening where you are. yeah this is really the front lines of the immigration debate and this is a former wal-mart that you see behind me huge huge facility and inside are about fifteen hundred kids all boys and out of those fifteen hundred we're told by a local lawmaker that toured it yesterday that about one hundred and ten are children that were separated and are currently separated from their parents or legal guardians because of this new zero

she's now at pro publica.nd she is the reporter who obtained the first recording today from inside a customs and border patrol detention facility since the trump administration started implementing this new policy of taking kids away from their parents, which they're now apparently doing at a rate of nearly 70 children per day. thompson said she obtained this recording from a texas lawyer who in turn says that she got it from a client who says it was recorded last week in a detention facility. now, on this recording you will hear kids crying here. you will hear kids crying for their mothers and their fathers. you will hear workers talking to them and trying to sort of figure out what to do with these kids. and you will also hear one very persistent sort of blaerktingly persistent 6-year-old girl from el salvador whom propublica has identified by name and what she is asking for here is for someone to please call her aunt. she's 6 years old. she has memorized her aunt's phone number, and she's trying to get an a

here is a brief portion courtesy of pro publica. coming up, i will talk to a civil rights lawyer. the latest update we have about the little girl asking for her aunt. traveling lighter. taking a shortcut. (woooo) taking a breather. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com with pg&e in the sierras. and i'm an arborist since the onset of the drought, more than 129 million trees have died in california. pg&e prunes and removes over a million trees every year to ensure that hazardous trees can't impact power lines. and since the onset of the drought we've doubled our efforts. i grew up in the forests out in this area and honestly it's heartbreaking to see all these trees dying. what guides me is ensuring that the public is going to be safer and that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. >>> as we reported the top want broadcast, the president spoke about immigration. also according to one lawmaker, he spent much of the time talking about other things namely what he sees as his accomplishments. bob menendez played it from his cell phone and here

he supplied audio from pro publica of some of the children crying for their parents. here's a look. mr. lieu: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, you are so recognized or 60 minutes. mr. lieu: i am congressman ted lieu of california. if the statue of liberty could cry, she would be crying today. as i stands here there are 2,300 babies and kids ripped away from their parents by our government and are in detention facilities across america. america was a country founded by people fleeing from persecution. we are a land of immigrants. president ronald reagan called us that shining city upon the hill. unfortunately donald trump and homeland security secretary nielsen have per vetted that grand -- perverted that grand legacy and have engaged in the functional equivalent of kidnapping. you can believe in no god or any god at all and conclude that ripping kids away from their parents similar moral. i believe in jesus christ. every single thing in the gospels and what christ taught g

pro publica also recorded a border patrol agent mocking those children. whether their men will face. the. government has owned or has been following events in brownsville texas where a former wal-mart store is being used to house migrants. yeah this is really the front lines of the immigration debate in this is a former wal-mart that you see behind me huge huge facility and inside are about fifteen hundred kids all boys and out of those fifteen hundred we're told by a local lawmaker that toured it yesterday that about one hundred and ten are children that were separated and are currently separated from their parents or legal guardians because of this new zero tolerance policy that's been put in place the facility that you see behind me is a private facility run by a private organization a private company basically but it's over the auspices of the whole health and human services department essentially the u.s. government and business is the facility that's really overflowing with young migrant children right now these are children that cross the border wi

confined in sealed camps and have little or no contact with their families now the transparency group pro publica has released in audio recording that apparently features solving central american children separated from their parents that has added fresh fuel to the fire. and i will note that. children detained in cages calling for their parents this is the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy in action critics have likened the practice to torture opponents of the law interrupted a u.s. congressional hearing to demand an end to separating immigrant children from parents this is a policy and i'm just saying this this was a policy invented implemented and executed by president donald trump and i'm talking directly to my republican colleagues we need you to stand up to president quote from we need you to join us in telling him that we reject this mean policy. president donald trump has blamed the separation of families on democrats saying they're at fault for refusing to pass new immigration laws yet the zero tolerance policy driving the separations was introduced under his own republican adm

confined in sealed camps and have little or no contact with their families now the transparency group pro publica has released an audio recording that apparently features sopping central american children that has added fresh fuel to the debate. over. children detained in cages calling for their parents this is the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy in action. critics have likened the practice to torture. opponents of the law interrupted a u.s. congressional hearing to demand an end to the separation policy this was a policy in very direct. and executed by president donald trump and i'm talking directly to my republican colleagues we need you to stand up the president quote. we need you to join us in telling him that we reject this. but the president continues to blame democrats for the separation crisis he's called for an overhaul of the country's immigration rules to allow the government to deport whole families together we want to solve this problem we want to solve family separation i don't want children taken away from parents we want to end the border crisis by finally giving us th

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de aduanas y protecciÓn fronteriza, un vÍdeo de ocho minutos hecho pÚblico por la organizaciÓn "pro pÚblicaon con esta cruda realidad. >> yo vine huyendo de la guerra del salvador y me imagino quÉ serÍa de mi vida si me dicen separado de mi mamÁ,si yo estuviese en un centro de detenciÓn sola. >> no llores. ella te va a ayudar. >>es un crimen contra la humanidad. ramÓn: las protestas fueron aireadas, pero pacÍficas, como esta realizada esa rafael.-- en. >> no pienso que separara la familia sea justo, creo que es crueldad. ramÓn:aunque la orden ejecutiva fue frenada -- firmada para poner un freno en la separaciÓn de familias, provoca mÁs incertidumbre. >> es posible que continÚe, cuÁndo van a preparar estos nuevos centros de detenciÓn por familias? es imposible saber cuÁndo van a parar con esta polÍtica de separaciÓn. ramÓn:algunos expertos coinciden en que aunque donald trump firmÓ la orden ejecutiva para detener las separaciones de familia, no necesariamente quiere decir que esta polÍtica anti emigrante vaya a cambiar de rumbo. este es mi reporte, de regreso contigo, palmira. palmira: un dÍ

a border patrol agent making an offhand comment. >> the recording is from pro publica. the images you saw at the right, those images on the right. dr. julie linton is a pediatrician. she chairs the immigrant health interest groups the american academy of pediatrics. can you describe the short-term or long-term effects this separation could be on children? >> absolutely. what we know is that highly stressful experiences like separation of children from their parents could cause irreparable harm. in the short-term we could see changes in body functions, eating, toileting. we might see aggression, anxiety and changes in their memory or their ability to learn and to develop. in the long-term, we know that highly stressful experiences place children at risk for things like diabetes and heart disease and depression. >> it could have that kind of a long-term impact? >> absolutely. when you think of what kind of stress children are faced with being in centers like detention centers and processing centers which i have seen with my own eyes, that in itself is traumatizing and whe

tonight i can tell through is newly leaked audio obtained by the news outlet pro publica and reveals how this policy works. how it sounds as these children are split from their parents by the u.s. government. now when we got there in the newsroom today, we all took a little bit of a collective gasp even though we know the facts of this thing. what you're about to hear is disturbing, even gut wrenching. it is what no parent would ever want to imagine and what few, i think, would want the u.s. to do deliberately to children. it is hard to listen to and that gives you some sense of obviously how much harder it would be to live through but it is part of the facts tonight. in a way, it must be heard. because there is brand new, as i say, we just got it, it is also seems like the kind of documentary audio evidence that many in the trump administration don't want the nation to hear. >> those are the sounds of children crying for their parents in what we believe to be the first moments of their separation under the new trump orders. and then you can hear again, there is we're airing it for t

this is the secret audio recording released today by pro publica. these are the children in one of donald trump's jails. >>> daddy, daddy. that's what the day after father's day sounds like in america today. and i'm sure donald trump hates to hear that. i'm sure donald trump hates for us to hear that. but donald trump does not actually hate what is happening there, because donald trump did that to those children whose voices you just heard crying for their mothers and fathers. and donald trump vowed today to continue to do it. in an op-ed for "the washington post," former republican first lady laura bush offered her own report of life on our southern border. she wrote in the six weeks between april 19th and april 31st, the department of homeland security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care. more than 100 of these children are younger than 4 years old. the reason for the separations is a zero tolerance policy for the parents who are aused of illegally crossing our borders. i live on a border state. this is cruel, i

to pro publica has also managed to record the mocking response of a border patrol agent. whether they're for mental health care. and. let's go live to the who's in brownsville texas outside a former wal-mart store now being used to house migrant children. what happens inside there. yeah this is a former wal-mart supercenter as they call here behind me a massive massive structure that now is a place that is a shelter is what the government likes to call it critics like to use a different word and they say that it's not anything like a shelter it's almost like a prison in a way there are about fifteen hundred young migrant boys in this building behind me between the ages of roughly eight to ten years old all the way up to teenagers eighteen in one thousand years old out of the fifteen hundred that are inside this building being detained there there are about one hundred ten that have been separated from their parents after crossing the border in the last couple weeks or so and this is where the real crisis is that now inside the building journalists have been allowed to go

she said that pro publica audio was recorded on the day she arrived, because that's when she was separated from her daughter. ever since she's tried, asking officials to be if she can reunify, to see if she could call her daughter. about a week later they gave her a phone number that they said she could use to connect with her. she has called multiple times. she last lost the number of times she has dialed. when we were interviewing her, we tried dialing that number and it went to a voice message. while we were interviewing her as well, that's when the news broke that first lady melania trump was here in texas at a separate facility visiting with officials and with children, and so we asked cindy madrid about the first lady's visit and here is the plea that she made. >> reporter: now, the facility that cindy is in is the one you see behind me. it's the port isabel detention center. this center will the one that will be used to reunify families. it's unclear how that reunification process will work, but as you can see, i'm standing pretty far from the facility and that's just the gate. we'r

heard in this recording first obtained by pro publica begging to call her aunt. >> this week pro publicato one of the calls. >> the fact that jimena was able to memorize this phone number turn out to be a really lucky thing for her. >> days after signing an executive order now keeping families detained at the border together while the adults await court hearings. >> i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families separated. >> president trump tweeting today telling republican lawmakers to stop wasting time on immigration until after the november midterm elections. but still congress is expected to vote on an immigration bill next week, ama. >> and marcy we understand you got a update on the 6-year-old girl in the piece. what have you learned? >> reporter: yeah, we learned that she was finally able to speak to her mother over the phone. she told her that the conditions in the shelter where she is held are god but that she is scared because she is all alone and she doesn't know anyone there. doesn't have her family and there is no word on when she could be reunited with her mother, ama.

alison's aunt telling pro publica the conversation with her 6-year-old kneels was the hardest moment in her life, adding, she's crying and begging me to go get her, she says i promise i'll behave but please get me out of here, i'm all alone. [ crying ] the haunting audio now a symbol of the suffering and confusion children endure when separated from their parents. >> child internment camps, that's what i said! >> reporter: sparking outrage among politicians. the president had a closed-door meeting with house republicans to discuss immigration legislation. the president reportedly telling them that his daughter ivanka showed him images of children in detention facilities and encouraged him to end the policy. after exiting the meeting, he was confronted by several democratic congressmen. >> you're separating the children! mr. president, don't you have kids? >> reporter: today's signing a striking reversal, just days ago -- >> we can't do it through executive order. >> president trump did exactly what he said he could not and would not do, he ended this policy with a stroke of a pen. it

the ns outlet pro publica publishing audio they say is from inside the facility. it has not been verified by nbc news, butn it children heard desperately crying for their parents. >> the trump administration has blamed democrats and loopholes in fmmigration law their separations claiming their hands are tied by the way the laws are written. but last night jeff sessions seemingly undermined that defense telling fox news's laura ingraham the separations are meant to be a deterrent. >> , yes, hopefully people will get the message and come through theth border a port of entry and not break across e border unlawfully. >> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are condemning family separations, calling for its immediat end. nbc's jacob soborofffr has more one of the facilities housing children split from their parent jacob, good morning. >> reporter: phillip, the this is the epicenter. this is the mcallen border paol station where vast majority of the separation s are occurring. 1100 separations have occurred at the border patrol since this policy was put into place direc

in prison like conditions and crying it all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published what it claims were children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. they were actually similar cases where migrant children were separated from their parents during president obama's tenure however those were much rarer and some claim didn't constitute a systematic policy as opposed to the one currently in place only i heard reaction from both sides of the argument. it's not true that all these people are arrested for just crossing the border they're arrested for illegally crossing the border they're a point of entry where they could come and see clinical asylum but these these people if in fact they are of families and not you know sex traffickers are others who come with children a way to break the u.s. law by entering and crashing the border illegally so the onus is upon them for choosing to disobey the law we have people who are legitimately trying to get into this country and seek political asylum who are waiting in line and doing it t

a recording first obtained by pro publica captures the desperation. >> the president should not be using these kids as leverage to get a border wall or whatever he's trying to do. it's obscene. >> reporter: the president is standing firm. >> the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. won't be. >> reporter: falsely blaming democrats, yet defending his own policy. a policy the president himself could end as it was launched and is enforced by his administration. >> what exactly image of this country you want? >> the image is an immigration system that secures our borders and up holds our humanitarian ideals. congress needs to fix it. >> reporter: among the growing opposition, all four living former first ladies, roselyn carter, hillary clinton joining laura bush who wrote in the washington post, this zero tolerance policy is cruel. it is immoral and it breaks my heart. michelle obama retweeting bush's op-ed adding, sometimes truth transcends party. janai norman, abc news, washington. >> a growing number of lawmakers are getting a first-hand l

children being separated from their parents on sunday the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published audiophile what it claims were children crying at attention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. bureau for. the. everyone here has added fuel to the fire of ongoing criticism levelled out the new migration policy congrats the separation policy that you sold to your boss mr trump will result in images that will. crazy to you both we would ensure you will never escape them and your fresh zeal you forgot that mother's a mother's first regardless of their politics has a monstrous policy of holding children hostage to build his unfeasable wall that he promised mexico was going to pay for his political negotiation tactic is to literally torture children who are trying to escape violence and abuse already what's happening to families at the border is horrific nursing infants being ripped away from their mothers parents being told their toddlers are being taken to babies or play only to realize hours later they aren't coming back this is a moral and humanitarian cris

custody through audio recordings obtained by investigative journalism site pro publica. [ speaking spanish ] [ crying ] the separations to end: >> cbs reporter mola lenghi shows us that even members of the president's own party are now calling for the separations to end. sa stands now his only r many n options are an open border or prosecuting those who cross it illegall >> so what i'm asking congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the legal authority to detain and promptly remove families together as a unit. >> reporter: the trump administration's new zero tolerance policy separating children from parents who enter the country illegally is drawing intense criticism even among republicans. >> i think it's wrong in this particular area today. >> all of us are horrified at the images we're seeing. >> reporter: texas republican ted cruz is introducing a senate bill that would reunite separated families, authorize new temporary shelters to house them and double the number of federal immigration judges to work through a backlog of asylum reque

the audio was first reported by the nonprofit group pro publica and obtained from a whistleblower.bs news has not confirmed the authenticity of the recording. [ crying ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> papa? >> homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen says she has not heard the audio. she added that children taken into custody by the government are being treated humanely. >>> many are wondering just what e dacoviitrebeiognndau ad atgon. >> reporter: this is the video the government gave us to show you. we were given 15 minutes to write down what we saw. we couldn't bring in cameras. men, women, and children are kept in large, fenced in cages. they are segregated according to how they crossed the border. >> talking about very, very high numbers -- >> reporter: manuel padilla jr. is chief of the rio grande valley border patrol sector. >> it's not just a very simple issue of separating the families. we have to look at this broader, without emotion, and objectively. and at the end of the day, we actually have to do soinme g w that has many loopholes. >> reporter: has illegal immig

in prison like conditions and crying it all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published audio purported to be of children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. orders for. people who. do it is. very likely guarding their i do on their. own that are already learned that. similar cases were where migrant children were separated from their parents allegedly occurred during president obama's tenure however those were reportedly much rarer and did not constitute a systemic policy as opposed to the one promulgated by the trump administration human and labor rights lawyer dan kovalchuk shared his thoughts on the issue. obama was the deporter in chief eat afforded three million and yes obama was putting people in cages in fact we saw the picture went viral that it democrat tweeted of the kids in a cage it turned out to two thousand and fourteen under obama but there is a double standard people were ok with this when obama was doing it and they don't like trump so they're not ok with him doing it. one republican senator from oklahoma

. >> so reverend, i want to play u this audio that has really been shocking people, come from pro-publica, a non-profite investigatournalist operation, and it's audio that was taped of these childn at the border in severe stress and distress. let's just listen. >> mommy. >> reverend, i saw you shaking your head there. >> you know at's ironic, i'm moved by this, let me tell you why for those w don't understand the spanish vernacul vernacular, the borderalgent is ac saying, well, look what we have here. we have an orchestra playing, what w need is a conductor. my god, these are children crying out forelp, crying out r dad, crying out for parents. this is so wrong. what we're hearing right now by the way, what we're hearing right now is the crescendo of as voices from a that supports, by the way, strongly supports its president on religiouliberty, life issues on so many issues that expand our ability to preach the gospel of love, grace, truth and hope so we support esident on this matter, but that same base -- listen, we've reached the tipping point, when franklin graham, one of the most con

investigative journalists at pro publica say someone inside a customs and border protection facility recorded the audio, then leaked it to a human rights activist. [ crying ] >> the children are inconsolable repeatedly pleading for their parents. >> oh, it's haunting. as a mom i don't know how any mom can listen to this and not be appear apoplectic. >> jackie speier will lead other congress -- be apoplectic. >> jackie speier will lead other congresswomen to visit the facility. >> we have got to shine the brightest spotlight on this absolutely abhorrent policy. >> tonight u.s. senator kamala harris went on cnn and called for the homeland security secretary to resign. >> it is immoral and it is unnecessary and wrong and it's got to stop and clearly she does not see the need for it to stop. so she should go. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi wants the president to call off the new policy. >> the president is saying it's not my fault. i didn't do it. no, you did do it. you did it to the dreamers and now you're doing it to the children. you can rescind this action in a moment. >> this

migrant children being separated from their parents on sunday the investigative nonprofit nonprofit pro publica published audio of children crying in a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. in april attorney general jeff sessions introduced the administration's zero tolerance policy on illegal border crossing it means all adults will be charged with illegal entry which results in children being separated from their parents when they're detained the policy was announced following a rise in the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border in the last six weeks over two thousand children have been separated from their parents facing an outcry the white house defended the policy necessary. ok we're going to discuss this issue with. professor of urban studies queens college and steve malzberg conservative t.v. and radio host thanks very much for both coming on to the program the world will be watching this announcement is going to be a fuse shockwave so i think. let's start with you people they leave the country in search of a better life. for them and their children obvi

however was a leaked audio recording of children sobbing published by the investigative outlet pro publica and part of that tape was actually played during a white house briefing involving the secretary of homeland security christian nielsen not that it moved to nielsen then had her own media moment she was in a restaurant in washington when protesters shamed her over the separation of families and it was all caught on camera and here's the kicker richard the restaurant was mexican. ok thanks law there was a time when to see was to believe that is no longer the case at least in syria in seven years of fighting there the bombing of civilians tales of torture on both sides millions displaced it's the chemical weapons attacks that have produced some of the most widely broadcast footage and the most heated debates the most recent suspected chemical attack occurred two months ago in the city of duma we saw images of frantic rescue efforts the hosing down the victims children included however in a war involving multiple states and actors almost nothing can be taken at face value arguments over t

however was a leaked audio recording of children sobbing published by the investigative outlet pro publica and part of that tape was actually played during a white house briefing involving the secretary of homeland security christian nielsen not that it moved nielsen then had her own media moment she was in a restaurant in washington when protesters shamed her over the separation of families and it was all caught on camera and here's the kicker richard the restaurant was mexico. ok thanks lou there was a time when to see was to believe that is no longer the case at least in syria in seven years of fighting there the bombing of civilians tales of torture on both sides millions displaced it's the chemical weapons attacks that have produced some of the most widely broadcast footage and the most heated debates the most recent suspected chemical attack occurred two months ago in the city of duma we saw images of frantic rescue efforts the hosing down the victims children included however in a war involving multiple states and actors almost nothing can be taken at face value arguments over the a

in prison like conditions of crime it all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published of what it claims were children crying into detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. they were actually similar cases where migrant children were separated from their parents during president obama's tenure however those were much rarer and as some claim didn't constitute a systematic policy as opposed to the one currently in place earlier i heard reaction from both sides of the argument. it's not true that all these people are arrested for just crossing the border they're arrested for illegal crossing the border they're a point of entry where they could come and see clinical asylum but these these people if in fact they are of families and not you know sex traffickers are others who come with children a way to break the u.s. law by entering and crashing the border illegally so the onus is upon them for choosing to disobey the law we have people who are legitimately trying to get into this country and seek political asylum who are waiting in line and doi

he supplied audio from pro publica of some of the children crying for their parents. here's a look. mr. lieu: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, you are so recognized or 60 minutes. mr. lieu: i am congressman ted lieu of california. if the statue of liberty could cry, she would be crying today. as i stands here there are 2,300 babies and kids ripped away from their parents by our government and are in detention facilities across america. america wasa

in prison like conditions and crying it all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publicapublished audiotape purported to be of children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection some harrowing sound. i'm. sure for the. people who. do it is. a right you are. well some claim that there were actually similar cases where migrant children were separated from their parents during president obama's tenure however those were much rarer and as some claim it did not constitute a systemic policy as opposed to the one promulgated by the trumpet ministration. i to discuss this issue further was cross live to denver volatile human rights and labor lawyer thanks for being with us here on r t international. i've been following the situation of the beginning it's just mind boggling to wrap your brain around it on any level but so the u.s. just announced its exit from the u.n. human rights council in the last twenty four hours following the council's criticism of the us separating migrant children from their parents but today trump signed an executive order s

being separated from their parents since april on sunday the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published an audio of what it claims were children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. bureau for. the audio has added fuel to the fire of ongoing criticism leveled at the controversial migration policy. congrats the separation policy that you sold to your boss mr trump will result in images that will create to you both we will ensure you will never escape them and your freshest zeal you forgot that mother's a mother's first regardless of their politics has a monstrous policy of holding children hostage to build his unfeasable wall that he promised mexico was going to pay for his political negotiation tactic is to literally torture children who are trying to escape violence and abuse already what's happening to families at the border is horrific nursing infants being ripped away from their mothers parents being told their toddlers are being taken to babies or play only to realize hours later they aren't coming back this is a moral and humanitarian

kept in prison like conditions and crying all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published audiotape purported to be of children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. now it is alleged to similar cases where migrant children were separated from their parents occurred during the obama tenure however those were reportedly much rarer and did not constitute a systemic policy as opposed to the one promulgated by the trump administration human and a labor rights lawyer dan kovalchuk shared his thoughts on the issue obama was the order and sheet afforded three million and yes obama was forty people aged in fact we saw the. bible that he democrats weeded. kids in a cage it turned out as you two thousand and fourteen under obama but there is a double standard people were ok with this when obama was doing it and they don't like trial so they're not ok with him doing it. one republican senator from oklahoma has said russian bots spreading dissent online are to blame for the border controversy here's what my guest had to say about that. peo

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kept in prison like conditions and crying all comes after the investigative nonprofit organization pro publica published on the open forty to be of children crying at a detention facility run by u.s. customs and border protection. there are three. people who. are you ok. are they right you are. bad or are. all small similar cases where migrant children were separated from their parents allegedly occurred during president obama's tenure however those were reportedly much rarer and did not constitute a systemic policy as opposed to the one promulgated by the trumpet ministration human labor rights lawyer daniel kovalchuk has his own commentary on the issue. obama was the deporter and sheet of forty three million people and yes obama was putting people in cages in fact we saw the picture went viral that a democrat tweeted of the kids in a cage it turned out as you two thousand and fourteen under obama but there is a double standard people were ok with this when obama was doing it and they don't like trial so they're not ok with him doing that one republican senator from oklahoma has said russian