In the United States, the Trump administration has gone back on its decision to separate migrant children from their parents at the border. But confusion still reigns over the fate of the 23-hundred kids detained. Can this situation be remedied? Also on the programme, Turkish President Erdogan is likely to win Sunday's presidential elections.The government's human rights violations and lack of freedom of the press are well known abroad. Is the government a dictatorship?
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson says that he discussed separating kids from their parents as a deterrent to illegal immigration but didn’t think the practice was right.
It is reported that over the course of a month 2,000 immigrant children have been separated from their parents at the US border. American political commentator Ann Coulter has recently made a controversial statement saying that these children are actors so Piers challenges her views.
President Trump has signed an executive order claiming to end the separation of children from their parents at the border, but critics warn the order could lead to the indefinite detention of entire families. The government has no plans to reunite the thousands of children already separated from their families with their parents. We go to Washington, D.C. to speak with Franco Ordoñez, White House correspondent for the McClatchy Washington Bureau. His latest story is headlined, “Trump’s immigration order replaces one crisis with another.”
CNN's Jake Tapper breaks down President Donald Trump's decision to back down from his administration's practice of separating immigrant families at the US-Mexico border.
First lady Melania Trump's former immigration lawyer Michael Wildes criticizes the Trump's administration zero-tolerance border policy that has separated children from their families.
While appearing on Fox News, Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally. The former Trump campaign manager responded "womp womp."
CNN's Anderson Cooper breaks down President Donald Trump's meeting with lawmakers at Capitol Hill over his administration's policy of separating immigrant families.
CNN's Jake Tapper says President Donald Trump is employing some of his harshest rhetoric since the opening of his campaign when describing immigrants coming to the United States.
