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Family Separations, 'Zero-Tolerance' Policy Roil Republican Party

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they head to a meeting of House Republicans to discuss a GOP immigration bill at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they head to a meeting of House Republicans to discuss a GOP immigration bill at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Political strategists Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) and John Brabender (@JohnBrabender) join Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson and Femi Oke to assess the election-year politics of the Trump administration's practice of separating children from undocumented immigrant parents arrested on the Mexico border.

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to end the policy.

This segment aired on June 20, 2018.

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