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July 10, 2019 Rep. Sharice Davids Votes to Pass Bill to Ease Visa Backlog, Help Kansas Businesses Rep. Sharice Davids
July 9, 2019 CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
July 9, 2019 MSNBC "Hardball with Chris Matthews" - Transcript: Trump: "Epstein pleads not guilty." Sen. Chris Coons
July 9, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - DeLauro Pushes HHS for Answers on Children's Care at the Border Rep. Rosa DeLauro, ...
July 9, 2019 Rep. Crow Ramps Up Pressure to Hold ICE Accountable; Announces Weekly Congressional Visits to Aurora, CO Detention Center Rep. Jason Crow
July 9, 2019 Joyce Statement on Dhs Request for More National Guard Troops Rep. John Joyce
July 9, 2019 Grassley, Tillis, Colleagues Introduce the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act Sen. Thom Tillis, ...
July 9, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Rep. Barragán Submits Public Comment to HUD Opposing Proposal to End Public Housing for Undocumented Immigrants Rep. Nanette Barragán
July 9, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "Barr won't recuse" Rep. Nanette Barragán, ...
July 8, 2019 Congresswoman Lori Trahan to Unveil New Migrant Death Accountability Legislation with Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) Rep. Lori Trahan
July 8, 2019 Crow Calls for the Abolishment of Private, For-Profit Immigration Detention Centers Rep. Jason Crow
July 8, 2019 Letter to Democratic Colleagues - Dear Colleague on Action on Border Conditions & Census Rep. Nancy Pelosi
July 8, 2019 Letter to Steven Dillingham, Director and Census Bureau - Murray, Cantwell, Colleagues Urge Census Bureau to Provide Language Support for Southeast Asian Communities Sen. Elizabeth Warren, ...
July 8, 2019 Tweet - "The latest accounts of conditions at the border patrol station in Clint, TX: Women and children, many locked up for weeks, some children without beds to sleep on, food shortages, insufficient sanitation. Border patrol must be reined in now, beginning with firing the leadership." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 8, 2019 Border Security Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 8, 2019 Rep. Frankel Statement After Visiting Lake Worth Shelter Housing Immigrant Girls Rep. Lois Frankel
July 7, 2019 CBS "Face the Nation" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Chris Coons Sen. Chris Coons
July 7, 2019 Tweet - "These are human beings, not political pawns. They are coming to America in search of a better life. It's time you start remembering what America is all about, @realDonaldTrump." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 7, 2019 NBC "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Jeff Merkley Sen. Jeff Merkley
July 6, 2019 Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Andy Biggs Rep. Andy Biggs
July 6, 2019 Fox News "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Michael Bennet Sen. Michael Bennet
July 6, 2019 Tweet - "This is unacceptable. And this is why the top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 5, 2019 The Need For Border Security Rep. Adrian Smith
July 5, 2019 Rep. Cuellar's Statement on the New Report Detailing Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention at U.S. Customs and Border Protection Holding Facilities in the Rio Grande Valley Rep. Henry Cuellar
July 4, 2019 Wasserman Schultz on Court Rejection of Border Wall Funding Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
July 4, 2019 Wasserman Schultz on Court Rejection of Border Wall Funding Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
July 3, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "Top pediatrician describes "dog cages"." Sen. Mazie Hirono
July 3, 2019 MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "Trump tweet creates census turmoil." Rep. Joaquin Castro
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Senators Warren and Gillibrand Raise Concerns that the Trump Administration May Separate Military Families Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan - Meeks Leads NYC Delegation Letter to CBP in Response to Derisive Facebook Group Rep. Gregory Meeks
July 3, 2019 CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Mazie Hirono Sen. Mazie Hirono
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Maybe @realDonaldTrump should read the poem on the Statue of Liberty over the July 4th holiday. These are human beings. Coming to America in search of a better life. It's time he remembered what America was all about." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Letter to Jonathan Hayes, Director of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services - Following Troubling Reports Of Migrant Children Being Held For Extended Periods Of Time In Unlicensed Facilities With Dire Conditions, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar Call On Agency To Immediately Implement Policies To Protect Children And Speed Up Family Reunification Process Sen. Amy Klobuchar, ...
July 3, 2019 Beatty Decries Dangerous Living Conditions for Children and Families in CBP Custody Rep. Joyce Beatty
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Crenshaw Leads Bipartisan Delegation In Seeking Answers On Prohibition Of Private-Citizen Donations To CBP Rep. Dan Crenshaw
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "This is big. Make sure your friends see this. A federal court once again blocked President @realDonaldTrump and his administration from trying to divert money from military funding for his unnecessary, vanity border wall." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Cantwell Calls for Acting Homeland Security Secretary to Testify Before Congress on Detainee Abuse Sen. Maria Cantwell
July 3, 2019 CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib Rep. Rashida Tlaib
July 3, 2019 Dingell Response to Visitors to her Office Expressing Concerns on the Border Rep. Debbie Dingell
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "In April, I visited the Del Norte Processing Center in El Paso. I will never forget what I saw there. The cruelty of this Administration is hard to overstate. America is better than this." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Cruelty is the point. Dehumanization of migrant children is the point. Family separation is the point. The administration's malignant policy of deterrence is immoral. #CloseTheCamps" Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Acting @CBP Commissioner Morgan and other top leadership at U.S. Customs and Border Protection should be fired. A new, untainted team must be brought in to begin reining in the toxic culture at the border patrol." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Strongly Supports Oversight Committee Investigation Of Detestable CBP Facebook Group Posts Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, Matthew Albence, Acting Director at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner at US Customs and Border Protection - Illinois Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi And Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Launch Inquiry To Ensure DHS Uses Funds To Strengthen Conditions For Migrant Children And Families Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - House Chairs Urge Trump Administration to Rescind Child Migrant Information-Sharing Memo Rep. Bennie Thompson, ...
July 3, 2019 Neal Statement on the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General Report Rep. Richard Neal
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "The inhumane conditions for children and their families. A secret border patrol workers' Facebook group sharing offensive images. The top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired. Now." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Jennifer Costello, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Harris, Colleagues Demand Thorough Investigation Into Anti-Immigrant Social Media Activity By Border Patrol Employees Sen. Elizabeth Warren, ...
July 2, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "New Inspector General report." Rep. Madeleine Dean
July 2, 2019 MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "HAYES: Here with me now House Oversight Committee member and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan who`s among members who toured several border facilities yesterday. Congresswoman, how does what`s described in that IG report compared with what you witnessed firsthand yesterday? TLAIB: I think many of my colleagues when we walked in, we had heard the rumors, we had saw the media reports, but we actually saw firsthand some of the conditions, but we actually were able to speak to women some up to 40 days that have been in the facility not access to showers and so forth, but also the trauma that has been created. Many of them not knowing what`s going to happen, not knowing where their children is. I talked to a grandmother who`s been there for 40 days, had not seen her grandchild she came with, doesn`t know where she -- where he is. And another woman who`s 30 years old found out she was pregnant while she was there, has not seen an OB/GYN. She`s been there for 27 days. She doesn`t know how far along she is. But you also -- what you saw in the eyes of many of them is fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes, they look exhausted. And one of the things that I noticed is just holding their hands in those moments of realizing that even that moment that human contact made them feel at least a little bit more whole because of the treatment that they are enduring while in custody while in our care in the United States of America. And I can tell you seeing the children through glass door -- and they knew we were coming. I mean, we went to a facility Clint, Texas where there was 700 children in this facility two months ago. We get there, there`s only 25 children. We`ve been told that they move people around consistently maybe to avoid any kind of further inspection but I`m wondering how do you move 675 children in two months. Where did they go? You know, the current administration continues, continues to deny access to information. The subpoena bipartisan supported through oversight that we issued to the administration has yet to be abided by. They completely obstruct any kind of access to information. And that`s the problem is I don`t want to wait a year or two years to find out about the other horrors that we yet to have to know about where the children are. And we`re not talking about a few hundred, we`re talking about thousands. I`ve heard up to 16,000 to 20,000 children have been separated from their parents. The other thing too is really important as I was there and it was my colleagues all agreed is we`ve been focused so much on the children, that meeting the parents, meeting the abuela, meeting the father, they looked right in the eye. I mean, we are also not giving justice to this travesty that is happening at the border if we`re not also understanding the human impact on the parents. HAYES: I just wanted -- that number 16,000 and 20,000 children, those -- I`ve never heard that number as the number separated. The number they gave the administration was 2,000. It could be thousands more. Do you mean unaccompanied minors? What do you mean by that? TLAIB: Unaccompanied. So they said up to 14,000 at the last time I heard from Oversight Committee staff of children that again we don`t have accessed the information. These are rumors that we understand from the fact that the policy when it was put into place, how many children were directly impacted. Again, in this one facility, there were 675 more children that were there two months ago, now we don`t know where these children are. I don`t know how you move that many children, again, without their parents. Even the CBP agents that we`re giving us a tour did not know where the children went. Many of them couldn`t answer some basic questions of when`s the last time they`ve seen a doctor, how long have they been in the facility. That alone tells you that there is complete chaos. And many of them, all of them actually, every single one I asked specifically from the chief town that gave us the tour said throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. And that`s one of the key things that needs to be really pushed forward is when the administration asks us to continue to fund the separation of families, continue to fund these camps at the border, I`m asking many of my colleagues, many people to say enough. We need real policy change to actually bring humanity back into this situation. We need immigration reform. HAYES: All right. So if money is not the solution, clearly something`s broken here. What is the solution? TLAIB: I mean, the solution is to talk about discontinuing, completely abolishing the camps. So that means no separation of families. That means let`s go by the legal process of asylum. If you`re coming to the border and you seek asylum, let`s go through those legal processes. Let`s talk about the fact that there are standards and those Flores standards. Each place that has any child should go through these what they call the Flores standard where they have to be processed, they have to see care, that they actually are given the basic standard of human rights that any person should be given. These are the things that are not happening. The for-profit industry has their teeth into this. You know, 75 out of 100 detainees are going to for- profit agencies and companies. To be honest, these are for-profit corporations, many of which support this current president, many of which supported an inauguration committee. We have to follow the money and show that that`s what`s fueling the continuation to look the other way, and that`s something that many of my colleagues when we got there we said we`re not going to look the other way. We`re going to expose the fact that this is broken system and throwing money at it is not the solution. That is something that it needs to be very, very clear to my Democratic and Republican colleagues in the -- in the Congress. HAYES: But respectfully just on the final -- the final point here, but respectfully the private contractors that are -- that are dealing with some of the housing the immigrants are coming through, that`s not the CBP facilities. I just want to be clear like the facilities that you`re touring, those are the government ones that where -- it does see the most acute and worst humanitarian crisis is taking place. TLAIB: Absolutely. And that`s one of the things the agent said to us as they went through is you know go see these HHS facilities, go find out where those children are because they don`t know. But what they do know is that they are given this problem, this crisis -- literally handed hundreds and thousands of people all at once and the facility that we were even in, they said we can only really house -- it`s only built for 106 and it wasn`t built to house children. HAYES: Right. TLAIB: It wasn`t -- you know, they said look, we weren`t trained to be social workers or medical care workers. We were not trained to deal with the situation. And that`s the problem is that we haven`t actually dealt with the thing that created the crisis which is this continuation of the separation policy that is un-humane and un-American. HAYES: All right, Congressman Rashida Tlaib, thank you for making the time." Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Date Title Politician
July 10, 2019 Rep. Sharice Davids Votes to Pass Bill to Ease Visa Backlog, Help Kansas Businesses Rep.Sharice Davids
July 9, 2019 CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
July 9, 2019 MSNBC "Hardball with Chris Matthews" - Transcript: Trump: "Epstein pleads not guilty." Sen.Chris Coons
July 9, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - DeLauro Pushes HHS for Answers on Children's Care at the Border Rep.Rosa DeLauro, ...
July 9, 2019 Rep. Crow Ramps Up Pressure to Hold ICE Accountable; Announces Weekly Congressional Visits to Aurora, CO Detention Center Rep.Jason Crow
July 9, 2019 Joyce Statement on Dhs Request for More National Guard Troops Rep.John Joyce
July 9, 2019 Grassley, Tillis, Colleagues Introduce the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act Sen.Thom Tillis, ...
July 9, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Rep. Barragán Submits Public Comment to HUD Opposing Proposal to End Public Housing for Undocumented Immigrants Rep.Nanette Barragán
July 9, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "Barr won't recuse" Rep.Nanette Barragán, ...
July 8, 2019 Congresswoman Lori Trahan to Unveil New Migrant Death Accountability Legislation with Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) Rep.Lori Trahan
July 8, 2019 Crow Calls for the Abolishment of Private, For-Profit Immigration Detention Centers Rep.Jason Crow
July 8, 2019 Letter to Democratic Colleagues - Dear Colleague on Action on Border Conditions & Census Rep.Nancy Pelosi
July 8, 2019 Letter to Steven Dillingham, Director and Census Bureau - Murray, Cantwell, Colleagues Urge Census Bureau to Provide Language Support for Southeast Asian Communities Sen.Elizabeth Warren, ...
July 8, 2019 Tweet - "The latest accounts of conditions at the border patrol station in Clint, TX: Women and children, many locked up for weeks, some children without beds to sleep on, food shortages, insufficient sanitation. Border patrol must be reined in now, beginning with firing the leadership." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 8, 2019 Border Security Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 8, 2019 Rep. Frankel Statement After Visiting Lake Worth Shelter Housing Immigrant Girls Rep.Lois Frankel
July 7, 2019 CBS "Face the Nation" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Chris Coons Sen.Chris Coons
July 7, 2019 Tweet - "These are human beings, not political pawns. They are coming to America in search of a better life. It's time you start remembering what America is all about, @realDonaldTrump." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 7, 2019 NBC "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Jeff Merkley Sen.Jeff Merkley
July 6, 2019 Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Andy Biggs Rep.Andy Biggs
July 6, 2019 Fox News "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Michael Bennet Sen.Michael Bennet
July 6, 2019 Tweet - "This is unacceptable. And this is why the top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 5, 2019 The Need For Border Security Rep.Adrian Smith
July 5, 2019 Rep. Cuellar's Statement on the New Report Detailing Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention at U.S. Customs and Border Protection Holding Facilities in the Rio Grande Valley Rep.Henry Cuellar
July 4, 2019 Wasserman Schultz on Court Rejection of Border Wall Funding Rep.Debbie Wasserman Schultz
July 4, 2019 Wasserman Schultz on Court Rejection of Border Wall Funding Rep.Debbie Wasserman Schultz
July 3, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "Top pediatrician describes "dog cages"." Sen.Mazie Hirono
July 3, 2019 MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "Trump tweet creates census turmoil." Rep.Joaquin Castro
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Senators Warren and Gillibrand Raise Concerns that the Trump Administration May Separate Military Families Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan - Meeks Leads NYC Delegation Letter to CBP in Response to Derisive Facebook Group Rep.Gregory Meeks
July 3, 2019 CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Mazie Hirono Sen.Mazie Hirono
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Maybe @realDonaldTrump should read the poem on the Statue of Liberty over the July 4th holiday. These are human beings. Coming to America in search of a better life. It's time he remembered what America was all about." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Letter to Jonathan Hayes, Director of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services - Following Troubling Reports Of Migrant Children Being Held For Extended Periods Of Time In Unlicensed Facilities With Dire Conditions, Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar Call On Agency To Immediately Implement Policies To Protect Children And Speed Up Family Reunification Process Sen.Amy Klobuchar, ...
July 3, 2019 Beatty Decries Dangerous Living Conditions for Children and Families in CBP Custody Rep.Joyce Beatty
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Crenshaw Leads Bipartisan Delegation In Seeking Answers On Prohibition Of Private-Citizen Donations To CBP Rep.Dan Crenshaw
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "This is big. Make sure your friends see this. A federal court once again blocked President @realDonaldTrump and his administration from trying to divert money from military funding for his unnecessary, vanity border wall." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Cantwell Calls for Acting Homeland Security Secretary to Testify Before Congress on Detainee Abuse Sen.Maria Cantwell
July 3, 2019 CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Rashida Tlaib Rep.Rashida Tlaib
July 3, 2019 Dingell Response to Visitors to her Office Expressing Concerns on the Border Rep.Debbie Dingell
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "In April, I visited the Del Norte Processing Center in El Paso. I will never forget what I saw there. The cruelty of this Administration is hard to overstate. America is better than this." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Cruelty is the point. Dehumanization of migrant children is the point. Family separation is the point. The administration's malignant policy of deterrence is immoral. #CloseTheCamps" Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Acting @CBP Commissioner Morgan and other top leadership at U.S. Customs and Border Protection should be fired. A new, untainted team must be brought in to begin reining in the toxic culture at the border patrol." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Strongly Supports Oversight Committee Investigation Of Detestable CBP Facebook Group Posts Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, Matthew Albence, Acting Director at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner at US Customs and Border Protection - Illinois Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi And Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Launch Inquiry To Ensure DHS Uses Funds To Strengthen Conditions For Migrant Children And Families Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - House Chairs Urge Trump Administration to Rescind Child Migrant Information-Sharing Memo Rep.Bennie Thompson, ...
July 3, 2019 Neal Statement on the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General Report Rep.Richard Neal
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "The inhumane conditions for children and their families. A secret border patrol workers' Facebook group sharing offensive images. The top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired. Now." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Jennifer Costello, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Harris, Colleagues Demand Thorough Investigation Into Anti-Immigrant Social Media Activity By Border Patrol Employees Sen.Elizabeth Warren, ...
July 2, 2019 MSNBC "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" - Transcript: "New Inspector General report." Rep.Madeleine Dean
July 2, 2019 MSNBC "All In with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: "HAYES: Here with me now House Oversight Committee member and Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan who`s among members who toured several border facilities yesterday. Congresswoman, how does what`s described in that IG report compared with what you witnessed firsthand yesterday? TLAIB: I think many of my colleagues when we walked in, we had heard the rumors, we had saw the media reports, but we actually saw firsthand some of the conditions, but we actually were able to speak to women some up to 40 days that have been in the facility not access to showers and so forth, but also the trauma that has been created. Many of them not knowing what`s going to happen, not knowing where their children is. I talked to a grandmother who`s been there for 40 days, had not seen her grandchild she came with, doesn`t know where she -- where he is. And another woman who`s 30 years old found out she was pregnant while she was there, has not seen an OB/GYN. She`s been there for 27 days. She doesn`t know how far along she is. But you also -- what you saw in the eyes of many of them is fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes, they look exhausted. And one of the things that I noticed is just holding their hands in those moments of realizing that even that moment that human contact made them feel at least a little bit more whole because of the treatment that they are enduring while in custody while in our care in the United States of America. And I can tell you seeing the children through glass door -- and they knew we were coming. I mean, we went to a facility Clint, Texas where there was 700 children in this facility two months ago. We get there, there`s only 25 children. We`ve been told that they move people around consistently maybe to avoid any kind of further inspection but I`m wondering how do you move 675 children in two months. Where did they go? You know, the current administration continues, continues to deny access to information. The subpoena bipartisan supported through oversight that we issued to the administration has yet to be abided by. They completely obstruct any kind of access to information. And that`s the problem is I don`t want to wait a year or two years to find out about the other horrors that we yet to have to know about where the children are. And we`re not talking about a few hundred, we`re talking about thousands. I`ve heard up to 16,000 to 20,000 children have been separated from their parents. The other thing too is really important as I was there and it was my colleagues all agreed is we`ve been focused so much on the children, that meeting the parents, meeting the abuela, meeting the father, they looked right in the eye. I mean, we are also not giving justice to this travesty that is happening at the border if we`re not also understanding the human impact on the parents. HAYES: I just wanted -- that number 16,000 and 20,000 children, those -- I`ve never heard that number as the number separated. The number they gave the administration was 2,000. It could be thousands more. Do you mean unaccompanied minors? What do you mean by that? TLAIB: Unaccompanied. So they said up to 14,000 at the last time I heard from Oversight Committee staff of children that again we don`t have accessed the information. These are rumors that we understand from the fact that the policy when it was put into place, how many children were directly impacted. Again, in this one facility, there were 675 more children that were there two months ago, now we don`t know where these children are. I don`t know how you move that many children, again, without their parents. Even the CBP agents that we`re giving us a tour did not know where the children went. Many of them couldn`t answer some basic questions of when`s the last time they`ve seen a doctor, how long have they been in the facility. That alone tells you that there is complete chaos. And many of them, all of them actually, every single one I asked specifically from the chief town that gave us the tour said throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. And that`s one of the key things that needs to be really pushed forward is when the administration asks us to continue to fund the separation of families, continue to fund these camps at the border, I`m asking many of my colleagues, many people to say enough. We need real policy change to actually bring humanity back into this situation. We need immigration reform. HAYES: All right. So if money is not the solution, clearly something`s broken here. What is the solution? TLAIB: I mean, the solution is to talk about discontinuing, completely abolishing the camps. So that means no separation of families. That means let`s go by the legal process of asylum. If you`re coming to the border and you seek asylum, let`s go through those legal processes. Let`s talk about the fact that there are standards and those Flores standards. Each place that has any child should go through these what they call the Flores standard where they have to be processed, they have to see care, that they actually are given the basic standard of human rights that any person should be given. These are the things that are not happening. The for-profit industry has their teeth into this. You know, 75 out of 100 detainees are going to for- profit agencies and companies. To be honest, these are for-profit corporations, many of which support this current president, many of which supported an inauguration committee. We have to follow the money and show that that`s what`s fueling the continuation to look the other way, and that`s something that many of my colleagues when we got there we said we`re not going to look the other way. We`re going to expose the fact that this is broken system and throwing money at it is not the solution. That is something that it needs to be very, very clear to my Democratic and Republican colleagues in the -- in the Congress. HAYES: But respectfully just on the final -- the final point here, but respectfully the private contractors that are -- that are dealing with some of the housing the immigrants are coming through, that`s not the CBP facilities. I just want to be clear like the facilities that you`re touring, those are the government ones that where -- it does see the most acute and worst humanitarian crisis is taking place. TLAIB: Absolutely. And that`s one of the things the agent said to us as they went through is you know go see these HHS facilities, go find out where those children are because they don`t know. But what they do know is that they are given this problem, this crisis -- literally handed hundreds and thousands of people all at once and the facility that we were even in, they said we can only really house -- it`s only built for 106 and it wasn`t built to house children. HAYES: Right. TLAIB: It wasn`t -- you know, they said look, we weren`t trained to be social workers or medical care workers. We were not trained to deal with the situation. And that`s the problem is that we haven`t actually dealt with the thing that created the crisis which is this continuation of the separation policy that is un-humane and un-American. HAYES: All right, Congressman Rashida Tlaib, thank you for making the time." Rep.Rashida Tlaib
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