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.@SecNielsen just now to @BennieGThompson: "Sir, they're not cages."

Full stop, that is not true.

Take it from me -- I've seen them.

They're cages.

And during zero tolerance, kids separated from their parents were put in them by Trump in a systematic way never done before.
Nielsen just said cages inside Border Patrol processing facilities are different from animal kennels.

They are not.

And I said that immediately after seeing separated kids in them when I joined @kasie on the air this summer.
Attention @SecNielsen, please watch this video.

That's me in the blue shirt, being given a tour of *separated kids in cages* by *your* Border Patrol officers in video *your agency* released.

Here's my full conversation with @KatyTurNBC: msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch…
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Jacob Soboroff
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Nielsen pushed for extreme Trump policies while ignoring realities on ground, like this:

Me: Do you think violence is spilling into USA?
Nielsen: Along the border? Absolutely.
Me: That's not what DEA says.
Nielsen: I‘d be happy to look at DEA materials.
She will always be the face of Trump’s family separation policy — even though she denied it existed.

Just this Friday the Trump administration, after being ordered to by a court, said it might take 2 years to identify all the kids it separated.
DHS secretary will change but Trump's policy goal remains the same.

Nielsen and McAleenan *both* support asylum law changes so US can:

1) Detain migrant families indefinitely, until cases are adjudicated
2) Send unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors back home immediately

@JoeNBC
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Jacob Soboroff
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NEW: Trump administration said in Friday night court filing “identifying all possible” children it separated before zero tolerance — which @OIGatHHS says could be thousands — could take 1 to 2 *years* to complete.

Details here, with @JuliaEAinsley. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Here’s where they say it could take years to reunite these kids in the filing.
.@leegelernt responds “we strongly oppose any plan that would give the government up to two years to find these children... government was able to quickly gather resources to tear these children away from their families & now they need to gather the resources to fix the damage.”
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Jacob Soboroff
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Trump and Nielsen claiming that closing the border would stop or alleviate a legit family surge is bizarre.

It would block migrants legally seeking asylum at ports and add to a crush in between.

Their ultimate goal: detain families indefinitely and immediately deport solo kids.
Now, this.

Blocking legal asylum + cutting aid = another Trump-made crisis.

He wants it to look bad (like separations) so it‘ll scare Congress into indefinitely detaining families and deporting unaccompanied minors.

Didn’t work then, won’t work now. wapo.st/2U3V16l
That’s not a theory.

It’s what a DHS official *told me* during separations: thought was chaos of crying kids would force Congress to allow indefinite detention and immediate deportation.

Same official said that’s why they regretted end of separations: “crisis” would have grown.
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