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I'm Heather Sells.
Lawmakers made immigration a top priority
in Washington this week.
The Democrat-controlledHouse passed a $4.6 billon
humanitarian aid package for migrants.
The Senate had alreadyapproved the measure
on a strongly bi-partisan vote.
Mark Martin joins us now
in the CBN news room with more, Mark.
- Heather, progressive Democratswanted stronger protections
for migrant children,but moderate Democrats
sided with Republicans,
and in the end, the bill passedby a three-to-one margin.
Thousands of migrants are trying to cross
the southern border into the U.S.,
and there have been reportsof terrible conditions
at facilities which house children.
- I think we need to get some money
and investment down there right now
because we face a humanitarian catastrophe
unfolding in real time before our eyes.
- But Senator Lindsey Graham says
it will take a lot more than money
to solve the problemsat the southern border.
- You don't address the abuses of our law,
the loopholes in our law,
we'll be doing $4 billionevery couple of months.
- Meanwhile at the G20 Summit in Japan,
President Donald Trump weighedin on the immigration debate.
He criticized the Democraticpresidential candidates
after they all agreedtheir healthcare plans
would provide coverage forpeople in the country illegally.
The president tweeted, "All Democrats
"just raised their handsfor giving millions"
"of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare.
"How about taking care ofAmerican citizens first?
"That's the end of that race."
Heather, back to you.
- And Mark, I understandthat the U.S. Supreme Court
has also weighed in on theimmigration issue today?
- That's correct, theSupreme Court announced
it will decide if Trump canend an Obama-era program
that protects youngimmigrants from deportation.
A decision is likely by June of 2020.
Now the AssociatedPress says DACA protects
about 700,000 people broughtto the U.S. illegally
as children or with familiesthat overstayed visas.
The president ordered theprogram to be stopped.
The Trump administrationhas says, has said it moved
to stop DACA because of a lawsuit threat
from Texas and other states.
That led to protests and afailed congressional attempt
to save the program.
Federal courts in California, New York,
Virginia, and WashingtonD.C. have blocked Trump
from ending it immediately.
Back to you.
- All right, thanks Mark,
and Warren Binford is achildren's rights lawyer
and professor who recentlyvisited migrant children
who are detained by theU.S. government in Texas.
She and other doctorsand lawyers on the team
that interviewed thesechildren are seeking
an emergency order thatwould require the government
to care for these children according
to safe and sanitary standards
set in the Flores settlement.
Warren, thank you so much for joining us.
I wanna ask you first aboutthe humanitarian aid bill
that the House and Senate have just passed
and that the presidentis expected to sign.
Do you think this willimprove the conditions
of migrant children held in Border Patrol
and DHS facilities?
- Well I certainly hope so Heather.
The real problem isthough that these children
are being held in violation of the law
for much longer periods in places
where they're not supposed to be.
It's costing $775 per dayper child to keep children
in the facilities provided
by the Office of Refugee Resettlement,
and frankly that's awaste of taxpayer money
when 86% of these children have families
and have other potential guardianshere in the United States
with whom they can be placed.
What we really need to do isto follow our Christian values
and get these children to their parents
who can take care oftheir children themselves
and not expect us to do it,
and in the process waste taxpayer money
and traumatize the children.
We really need to bringthese families back together.
- Yes, I know that you'vebeen trying to understand
really what the bill actually says,
and does it do anything tolimit the amount of time
that these children will be in facilities?
- No.(screen gurgling)
Found that children, determinedthat children cannot be
in Border Patrol facilitiesfor more than a few hours.
THey're supposed to be movedthrough those facilities
as quickly as possible within 72 hours,
and then the Flores order,
which was reached bythe government in 1997,
holds that children arenot to be in ORR facilities
for more than 20 days,
so really these children should be moved
through the system in 23 days,
and we are seeing underthis administration
that some of these children are being held
nine months or longer at that rate
of approximately $775 a day.
- Okay, and I'm gonnainterrupt you for a minute.
We had a little breakup there,
but it this bill doing anything?
You might have said thisand I didn't hear it,
but is this bill doinganything to shorten that time?
- So yes, so in the bill,
there is language and an allocation
of a limited amount offunding to try and come up
with strategies toreduce the period of time
that children are in detention.
However, it doesn't offerconcrete solutions to that problem
which really is the source of the crisis
that we're witnessing today.
We're not really seeingrecord numbers of migrants
coming into the countrywhen you look at this
across the recent decades.
What we are really seeingis the gross mismanagement
of the children's care and other cases,
and this bill doesn't really adequately
address that issue.
- Okay, and just briefly,
I know that you are also seeking in court
a temporary restraining order,
hoping to help these children.
Tell us, what are youhoping for with that order?
- Basically what we'rehoping is that the government
will improve the conditionsin which it's keeping children
in Border Patrol facilities.
The Border Patrolcurrently has over 2,000,
or approximately 2,000children in its care,
and the standards of care thatthey are currently providing
are wholly inadequate.
We've had approximatelyhalf a dozen children die
in the last few months,
and that has never happened before
in the history orrecordkeeping at Border Patrol,
so we really do have ahealth crisis going on there,
and in that application,
we asked the court for consentto bring healthcare teams in
of independent doctors whocan evaluate these children
and refer them to thehealthcare that they need.
We did just receive a decisionby the judge in that case,
and she seemed very upset in her order
and has ordered the partiesto go to expedited mediation
to try and address this issue.
She says that the BorderPatrol has been given 22 years
to bring its department intocompliance with the order
and has failed to do so,
and it sounds like she's very exasperated,
based upon what that order provides.
- All right, well Warren Binford,
thank you for your work andfor your time right now.
- Thank you Heather.
- The first Democraticdebates of the primary season
wrapped up last night,but the fallout continues.
What has got everyonetalking is a heated exchange
between former Vice President Joe Biden
and California Senator Kamala Harris.
Biden defended himself fromHarris over his past opposition
to school busing and recent statements
about working with segregationists.
- It's personal, and I wasactually very, it was hurtful
to hear you talk about the reputations
of two United States senatorswho built their reputations
and career on the segregationof race in this country,
and it was not only that,
but you also worked withthem to oppose busing,
and there was a little girl in California
who was part of the second class
to integrate her public schools,
and she was bused to school every day,
and that little girl was me.
- That's a mischaracterizationof my position
across the board.
I did not praise racists;that is not true.
- And we'll have moreon this story and others
on Faith Nation this evening.
You can watch it herein the CBN News channel.
Abortion providers andadvocacy groups in Georgia
have filed a lawsuit against the state's
newest abortion law.
Lawyers with the AmericanCivil Liberties Union,
Planned Parenthood, and theCenter for Reproductive Rights
filed the lawsuit.
Georgia's newest heartbeatlaw effectively bans abortions
about six weeks into a pregnancy.
The lawsuit asks ajudge to prevent the law
from taking effect and todeclare it unconstitutional.
If it's not blocked,
the law will go into effect January 1st.
President Trump sat downwith Russia's Vladimir Putin
today at the G20 Summit in Japan.
The two traded briefremarks for the first time
since the summit in Helsinki last July.
It's also their first meetingsince the U.S. investigation
found extensive evidenceof Russian meddling
in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Trump jokingly said to Putin don't meddle
in the election after a reporter asked
if he will deliver that warning to Putin
about the 2020 U.S. election.
Putin denies any involvement.
The two-day summit comesat a time of tensions
over trade, globalization,
and Iran's collapsing nuclear deal.
Well the church in Turkeysees trouble ahead.
Pastor Andrew Brunson testified before
the U.S. Commission onInternational Religious Freedom
this week, and Brunsonspent two years in prison
and under house arrest in Turkey
accused of being a terroristby the Erdogan government.
He told the commissionthat the same tactic
is being used againstother foreign Christians,
and Turkish church leadersfear they could be next.
- Another Turkish church leader
wrote to me a few days ago.
He said, "Some TurkishChristians have started to ask
"after the foreigners are sent away,
"what will the government do to us,"
and this is a good question.
According to some Turkish leaders,
there is, I quote, anexpectation of an action
from the government againstTurkish church leaders.
Arrest, investigations, we don't know.
So I think the accelerateddeportation of church leaders
is a sign of very dark times to come.
Turkey is not there yet,
but it is careening inthe wrong direction.
- And Turkey's church is very small.
There are about 6,000Muslim-background believers
in the nation of 80 million people.
Well coming up,
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According to the BBC,
Fulani Muslim militantsattacked a Christian village.
50 heavily armed men onmotorcycles and in pickup trucks
carried out the attack.
It happened in the village of Sobame Da.
At least 45 men, women,and children were killed,
and the entire villagewas virtually wiped out.
The persecutionalwatchdog group Open Doors
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to pray for their fellowbelievers in West Africa.
CBN senior international correspondent
George Thomas joins me now,
and George, what do we thinkis behind these attacks?
- Well let's go to a map of Mali
so you have an idea ofwhat this place looks like.
Mali is a massive country.
It's larger than France andGreat Britain put together,
larger than the state of Texas.
Pretty much it's a desert region.
The north is Sahara,the middle is the Sahel.
Very little forest, very few people.
It's a massive country.
There are two main tribes.
You've got the Dogon and the Fulani,
and this is a centuries-oldbattle between these two groups.
One's a herder, they're herders.
The other, they're farmers.
The Fulani are mainly Muslim;the Dogon mainly Christian.
And so what you've had ever the centuries
is constant competition for land
for access to water for land,
and so now you have the added element
of the tensions betweenthese two countries,
and in this mix,
you have close to about50 nations represented
in terms of U.N. peacekeeping's mission.
You've got al-Qaeda elements in the region
and a government that isbasically non-existent.
So in this vacuum,
you have all of this tension mixed in
with all the centuries ofanimosity between these two groups
and then foreign influence which makes it
a really volatile region.
- So you've got theU.N. peacekeepers there,
but it doesn't seem like
they're particularly able to do much.
- No because if you look at the country,
it's massive, and so you'vehad most of the attacks
have taken place well, Heather,
in the middle belt ofthe country, so it's,
just look at this footage.
I mean, it's total desert.
It's massive, and there'sno government apparatus
in terms of police, army,all over the country,
so how do you if you havean attack in one part,
in the most central part of the country,
and the peacekeepers areall the way in the south,
there's no way to do that,
and when there is an attack.
In fact, on the lastattack a few weeks ago,
it took the U.N. close to two days
to get to the site of a massacre,
so it's not easy.
It's not like you can jumpon a plane and get there.
So there's a lot ofcontroversy with the U.N.
saying what's your role there?
You're here in our country.
You have a massive U.N. operation,
and yet you're not protecting us,
and so there is somesort of, what's the word,
they're suspicious of theU.N. and its role there.
- Okay, and these Muslim radicals,
do we think that al-Qaedawas involved here?
What's the thought?
- Yeah because again,it's the M.O. of al-Qaeda
around the world and especiallyin places like Africa
where you have no government,
where you have no authoritiesspread around the country,
and so al-Qaeda comes in.
In fact, in 2013 Heather,
al-Qaeda basically took over half
of the northern part of Mali,
and the French had to comein and try to get them out.
They didn't succeedcompletely, and so today,
al-Qaeda, some of thesesmaller Islamic radical groups
are taking advantage of the tension
between these two ethnicgroups to try and come in here,
and so the conflict has becomea little bit of religious,
but there's also theethnic dimension to it,
but also let's keep in mind,
you look at this arid desert landscape,
and there is no water.
There's no vegetation growing,
and so one group, they're farmers.
The other group, they're herders.
The herders want to get their cattle
to places where there's vegetation.
The farmers say no, that's not right.
This is our land, it's sacred,
and so in the midst of this,
you have this tension that's both ethnic
and unfortunately now religious,
and really it's brutal what'staking place there in Mali.
- With ISIS being squeezedout of the Middle East,
you see more growing presence in Africa?
- Absolutely, I mean youjust go down the list.
You've got Kenya, you're gotNigeria, you've got Mali.
You've got all of these places.
Clearly this is also an environment
that folks like al-Qaedaand ISIS tend to thrive.
- All right George, thank you.
- You're most welcome.
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CBN's Jessica Choco and Dan Andros.
- Well this week,
the pro-life group Marchfor Life Action released
a campaign just ahead ofthe Democratic primaries.
Their ads claim 80% of Americans
believe in limiting abortion.
Dan Andros, managing editor of Faithwire,
is here to tell us more.
Dan, these are powerful ads.
- Yeah, the ad's called Consensus,
and it features women discussingtheir views on abortion
and how they represent those 80% of people
that believe thatabortion shouldn't happen
past three months in the pregnancy.
So as we know,
the pro-life movement hasbeen working incrementally
to scale that back and toscale the scope of abortion,
and I think something alot of people don't know
and aren't aware of is just how big
that majority really is across the nation,
not just among pro-lifers,
and so they ran this ad justbefore the Democratic debates
which was sorely needed becausein the Democratic debates,
pretty much all of the candidateswere very much pro-choice
and kind of trying to outdo themselves
on their pro-choice credentials.
One of the candidates, Julian Castro,
even said that trans femalesneeded access to abortion,
and of course a transgenderfemale is a biological male,
and biological males can'tphysically get pregnant.
He later said he misspoke,
but that was the kind ofrhetoric you were getting
at the Democratic debates,
so an ad like this waswell-placed, well-timed
to get the pro-life message out there.
- Well speaking of pro-life,
a Texas couple are hailedheroes for fostering,
get this, 173 newborns overthe course of 36 years,
but for Burrell and Leanna Langford,
it was simply the right thing to do.
Dan, this is an astoundingnumber of children.
How did they do it?
- This is so great.
Well it started back in 1976,
and his wife, Burrell'swife who's now passed away
since prior to this story happening,
and she was the one that led the charge.
She asked and said hey, can we do this?
They asked their threebiological children hey,
you guys up for this,
and they all said unanimously yes,
and the rest was history.
They just stated fostering,
and they would kind of joke
as their lives became busier and busier
that they needed a yellow school bus
because they just hadthese kids all the time,
and they had rows ofcar seats in the back,
and so really they justkind of became very selfless
and did this for yearsand years and years,
and next thing you know,
it was hundreds of kids.
And the other cool thing about this
is that they're very humble about it.
The only reason this storyever came to public light
was because a neighborwas visiting Burrell
and saw all the baby pictures on the wall.
They're kinda like which ledto some obvious questions
like you guys really like babies,
or what's with all thebaby pictures on the wall?
And explained that these were all babies
that they had fostered,
and so that led to a TV segmentand everybody getting to see
this great story of thisfamily that was very selfless,
and they said at times it was super hard,
that some of the babieshad drugs in their system
when they were given up,
and so that led to some challenges,
and he said the hardest thing hands-down,
no matter how many times they did it,
was saying goodbye to the babies
as it was time for them to be placed.
- Well thanks Dan.
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chances are that you knowCaptain David Wright,
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- [Wendy] Each morningfor nearly 30 years,
Captain David Wright ofHigh Hopes Sports Fishing
in Virginia Beach sends local fishermen
off to sea with a prayer.
- My great and mighty God,
we thank you for the daythat you made for us today.
We ask for your blessing and protection
to be on each and every one of us
out here on the water today.
We ask you to be withus in the name of Jesus.
In His name we pray, amen.
I hope you guys all have a blessed day.
- [Radio] Thank you Dave,we really appreciate it.
- Hey man, take care.
- Amen.
- [Wendy] Captain Wrightsays the prayers began here
at Rudee Inlet during aparticularly big tuna season
back in 1991.
- We were actually having a discussion
about how good our tuna fishing was,
and somewhere along the line,
one of our captains broughtup the idea of saying
we should work together,
but we should have a prayer in the morning
before we start our day.
I said yeah, that's a great idea.
I had no idea it was gonna be me.
- You said Lord, here I am.
- I said yeah, here I am Lord, send me.
- High Hopes; it's more than just the name
of Captain Wright's boat.
It's the message behindevery prayer that he gives
and the feeling fishermen saythey get when they hear it.
- Honestly, it kinda givesyou like a sense of hope
that somebody's lookingout for you 'cause I mean
when you leave the slip andwhen you leave the inlet,
there's, you're at the mercy of
Mother Nature and everything,
so it's always nice to knowthat somebody's looking out
and praying for everybody.
- [Wendy] 19-year-old Haley Harris
is one of the few female first mates
you'll see around here.
- My dad grew up as a mate where I am now
and worked his way up to captain,
and I was like oh, that's pretty cool.
That's what I wanna do.
- What's it like workingnext to a local legend
like Captain Wright?
- It's really awesome.
People come down here looking for him,
and I'm like he's just two slips over.
Go see him; he's the best.
He's got a really big heart
and really cares about your well-being
and like always cheers youup, puts a smile on your face.
- [Wendy] Captain Wrightsays out on the water,
fishermen strive to help each other.
Today we saw that first-hand
as a fellow charter boat lost power.
High Hopes was able to tow the boat,
loaded with fishermen, to safety.
- [David] You're good, man.
I'm gonna get you out of the tide line.
- [Wendy] Captain Wright says
whether it's throwing someone a rope,
taking families out fora dream fishing trip,
or throwing up a prayer,
giving hope is the mission.
- God told me many yearsago when I started this,
and I didn't know whatto do to pray to say.
He said tell them about me.
There's another generation of fishermen
that'll come after me,
and my hope and prayer'sthat this carries on.
- [Wendy] Wendy Griffith, CBN News,
Virginia Beach, Virginia.
