AOC and Tom Homan clash over family separation policy in resurfaced video as Trump names him border CzarC-SPAN
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00:00This initiative would pursue prosecution of all amenable adults, including those presenting with a family unit.
00:07Mr. Homan, your name is on this, is this correct?
00:11Yes, I signed that memo.
00:13So you are the author of the family separation policy?
00:16I am not the author of this memo.
00:17You're not the author, but you signed the memo?
00:19Yes, a zero tolerance memo.
00:22So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen for the United States to pursue family separation?
00:30I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives.
00:36But it says here that you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation.
00:42What I'm saying, this is not the only paper where we've given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives.
00:49And so the recommendation, of the many that you recommended, you recommended family separation?
00:55I recommended zero tolerance.
00:57Which includes family separation?
00:59The same as is with every U.S. citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child.
01:07Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents.
01:12If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated.
01:16I was a police officer in New York, and I arrested a father for domestic violence.
01:20I separated that father from his family.
01:22Mr. Holman, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
01:29When you're in the country illegally, it's violation 8 United States Code 1325.
01:33Seeking asylum is legal.
01:35If you want to seek asylum and go through the port of entry, do it the legal way.
01:39The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.
01:42Okay.