MSNBC Hayes — Immigrant Children Are Being “Ripped Out Of The Arms Of Their Mother"

In what MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reported Friday was “what appears to be the first time ever,” parents and children are being separated at the border “systematically” as what White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called a “tough deterrent” to families who enter the United States.

Children as young as 18 months are being “ripped out of the arms of their mother,” Hayes reported, adding it was for a very specific reason: “to punish the immigrants,” many of whom he said were “often seeking asylum”

Hayes went on to report that Kelly noted the children who were separated would be “taken care of – put into foster care or whatever.”

“If Kelly’s words, ‘or whatever,’ about the fate of an 18 month old don’t exactly fill you with confidence that the federal government has the wherewithal, the capacity or the intention to take care of these children, their track record makes it clear that your doubts are warranted,” Hayes explained.