The Department of Homeland Security’s Kirstjen Nielsen is stepping down after a stint that will most likely be remembered for the “zero tolerance” policy that resulted in the separation of thousands of families.
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00:00How is this not child abuse?
00:02Which, be more specific please, enforcing the law?
00:05Question, what is a chain link fence enclosed into a chamber
00:27on a concrete floor represent to you?
00:31Is that a cage?
00:32It's a detention space, ma'am, that you know has existed for decades.
00:36Does it differ from the cages you put your dogs in when you let them stay outside?
00:42Is it different?
00:43Yes.
00:44In what sense?
00:45It's larger.
00:46It has facilities.
00:47It provides room to sit, to stand, to lay down.
00:48So did my dog's cage.
00:50Shame!
00:51Shame!
00:52Shame!
00:53Shame!
00:54Shame!
00:55How can you enjoy a Mexican dinner as you're deporting and imprisoning tens of thousands
00:56of people who come here seeking asylum in the United States?
00:57How is this not child abuse?
00:58Which, be more specific, enforcing the law?
01:08Question, what is a chain link fence enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor represent
01:19Which, be more specific please, enforcing the law?
01:22So I want to be clear on a couple other things.
01:25The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of HHS right
01:31now, 10,000 of the 12,000, were sent here alone by their parents.
01:41Yes or no, are we still putting children in cages?
01:45To my knowledge, CBP never purposely put a child in a cage if you mean it like this.
01:51Purposely or whatever, are we putting children in cages as of today?
01:58Children are processed at the border facility stations that you've been at.
02:03Some of the areas.
02:04And I've seen the cages.
02:05I just want you to admit that the cages exist.
02:07Sir, they're not cages.
02:10What are they?
02:11If we have the border facility that are carved out for the safety and protection of those
02:16who remain there while they're being processed, if we have two gangs, we separate them into
02:20separate areas of that facility.
02:21No, no, no.
02:22Madam Secretary.
02:23If we have a father and daughter, we separate them.
02:24Madam Secretary, now I saw the cyclone fences that were made as cages, and you did too.
02:31All you have to do is admit it.
02:33If it's a bad policy, then change it.