Lawmakers to Tour Immigration Facilities Near Border; Trump to Talk Immigration with House Republicans on Tuesday; Trump and Kim Jong Un Due to Speak Today
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They should not even be separating families. They should not be dragging people from their homes and kidnapping them.</s>KELLYANNE CONWAY, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT: The president as he has wanted to do is trying to bring everybody together.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're not going to let this under discretion. No! No! No we are not going anywhere!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is a growing chorus of frustration and anger and protest.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Home of the free and land of the brave. We should not be using kids as a deterrent process.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're rounding people up. People with families.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's going to be a black stain on the president's first term.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need people of good faith, of different political philosophies to come together and tell the president to stop this, stop it now.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Separation anxiety. America take is inward look at its policy on immigration and how it inhumanely treats people who are seeking asylum.</s>CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: That and so much more. I'm Christi Paul. We're so grateful to have you.</s>SAVIDGE: And I'm Martin Savidge, in for Victor Blackwell. More on our top story in just a moment. Also this hour.</s>PAUL: Yes, possibly holding on line one, maybe? Kim Jong-un and President Trump teases a possible call with the North Korean dictator today.</s>SAVIDGE: And we got more of the stunning new aerial images from Hawaii to share with you, continually flowing lava and it's now covering more than nine square miles of land.</s>PAUL: Also ahead, how the Antarctica ice is melting at a more rapid rate than we realize and how impact that's going to have on coastal cities. Your NEW DAY starts right now.</s>PAUL: Two minutes after 7:00. Thank you for being with us again on a Sunday. Democrats are responding to President Trump as he blames them for his own administration's policy change.</s>SAVIDGE: As Trump appears to use the separation of migrant children from their parents as a bargaining chip, Democrats like Senator Ron Wyden say in this case, zero tolerance makes zero sense. In a few hours, more than a half dozen Democratic lawmakers will start touring facilities along the U.S./Mexico border. They'll make stops across the state of Texas as protests continue all over the country.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. No. No, we are not going anywhere!</s>SAVIDGE: Here is CNN correspondent Ed Lavandera with a look at what lies ahead.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: While the Trump administration remains unapologetic in its support in the way it's rolled out the so- called zero tolerance policy for undocumented immigrants crossing into the U.S. southern border, there is a growing chorus of frustration and anger and protests that will start to be invisible here on Sunday in south Texas. There is a congressional delegation that will be touring several immigration facilities throughout the region, throughout the day. Most of the members of that delegation very much opposed to this zero tolerance policy. There is a vigil protest also scheduled to occur here on Sunday in McAllen, and there is another congressman who is leading a march and protest toward the newly open temporary facility for undocumented immigrant children facility and that was opened in far west Texas. So, a lot of this is really starting to pick up as the stories that have emerged from these -- from the zero tolerance policy and people are watching this play out, really starting to pick up steam. But as I mentioned off the top, the Trump administration is unapologetic. They continue to say that this policy is designed to deter undocumented immigrants from continuing to pour into the U.S. southern border. However, when you report here on the ground and you talk to immigrants who have just crossed the border, news of this policy isn't necessarily making it to every corner of these countries in Central America and Mexico as well, where most of these undocumented immigrants are coming from. And when you do talk to them, if they do know about the policy, they say it is a risk that they are very much willing to take, that anything is better than the homes and -- hometowns they are coming from. So, that's the latest we're hearing in South Texas as the frustration and anger and the focus on this issue really continues to build up. Ed Lavandera, CNN, McAllen, Texas.</s>SAVIDGE: Thank you very much for that, Ed. Sources tell CNN that President Trump is going to head to go Capitol Hill Tuesday to talk immigration with House Republicans.</s>PAUL: Yes, the visit follows several days of -- as we just talked about there, confusion to over which plan the president would support here. CNN White House reporter Sarah Westwood joining us live from Washington. Sarah, is there anymore clarity on that this morning?</s>SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, the spotlight is certainly on President Trump's push for immigration reform this week, particularly after he did stir up that confusion on Friday, but incorrectly stating he would refuse to sign a compromise bill that his own White House actually helps negotiate. Now, White House officials later tried to clear things up, saying Trump would, in fact, sign that bill and insisting that Trump simply misunderstood the question he was asked, but it underscored the chaos that has surrounded Republican immigration talks for months now. Top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway defended the president, saying he consistently sent a clear message on immigration and blaming Democrats for holding up progress on a bill. Take a listen.</s>CONWAY: The president, as he's wanted to do, is try to bring everybody together to come up with a common sense plan but he could not be more clear on his view of immigration is. He wants to -- he wants to have a sovereign nation that has physical borders. These Democrats refuse to provide the funding necessary so that can you expand the detention centers, that you have more ICE agents, some common sense measures and they have been -- they have been saying --</s>WESTWOOD: Of course, this all comes against the backdrop of increased scrutiny that the Trump administration's decision to step up family separation at the border. Democrats are putting more and more pressure on the administration to reverse that decision. Even as Trump and his allies continue to blame Democrats for the existence of the law requiring family separation. Of course, no such law actually exists. Now, Trump will head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where he'll face Republicans head-on and hope to smooth over some of those divisions that had held up legislation in the House -- Martin and Christi.</s>PAUL: All right. Sarah Westwood, appreciate the update, thank you.</s>SAVIDGE: Democrats aren't alone in opposing this forced separation of undocumented migrant families . Listen to what two Republican congressmen told CNN.</s>REP. WILL HURD (R), TEXAS: In the home of the free and the land of the brave, we should not be using kids as a deterrent policy. This is something I think is actually unacceptable and is something that, as Americans, we shouldn't be doing. And this really isn't a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is an issue about how should you treat children.</s>REP. FRANCIS ROONEY (R), FLORIDA: I would rather keep the families unified and detain them and adjudicate them. I think it would be a good idea.</s>PAUL: Now, the question now as president Trump prepares to meet with House Republicans whether family separations are a catalyst for a sweeping immigration reform bill or a roadblock. The so-called compromised bill worked out by House Republicans would fund the border wall while providing legal status for so-called Dreamers. Friday, while accusing Democrats of pushing a, quote, horrible and cruel agenda, the president said any bill he signs must have wall funding and merit-based admissions, while ending catch and release, chain migration and visa lotteries.</s>SAVIDGE: Joining us is deputy managing editor of "The Weekly Standard", Kelly Jane Torrance. And good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us.</s>KELLY JANE TORRANCE, DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Good morning. Happy Father's Day.</s>SAVIDGE: Thank you. Well, let's start up with a couple of things. You know, I listened to that sound bite from Kellyanne Conway and I don't know if she realizes it, but, you know, the statement she makes is that essentially this administration, this president is trying to bring people together by tearing families apart and does she not see just how odd a statement that is? On top of the confusion that came from the president with his different statements he made on, well, earlier in the week. And, lastly, I'll point out Congress is supposed to vote this week. So, what do we make of all of this?</s>TORRANCE: It's a great question -- questions, Martin. And, yes, I guess President Trump is sort of bringing people together and that you have people on both sides of the aisle, of all political persuasions who are really quite shocked and appalled by what is going on with family situation. Now, I understand some of the motivation behind it. They, apparently, there were people that made sure that they brought children with them because they were going to be treated differently from single people who are crossing the border illegally. But, you know, you can't visit the sins of the fathers on the children. And the idea that you're going to punish young children, traumatize them because of what their parents did. Again, this has nothing -- the children are not -- they don't have the free will. They haven't decided to cross the border themselves. And it's a little bit like the Dreamers and, of course, President Trump has said, you know, a number of times, he supports helping the Dreamers because they didn't make the decision to come here as children. And so, it is very confusing. You know, especially with what happened on Friday. You know, you had -- Donald Trump, as you mentioned, make this comment on Fox in the morning that he wasn't going to support the moderate bill. Then you had an anonymous White House source telling "The Hill" that he would support it and a different anonymous source telling "Breitbart" that he wouldn't. So, the confusion continued all day. Paul Ryan actually cancelled some meetings he had with Republicans to work on getting this bill ready and ready to vote next week. And he cancelled those meetings. Finally, at the end of the day, a White House spokesman went on the record while Sean said, yes, the president would support this. But there was already some damage done. And let's face it, we don't have a lot of time and everybody is itching to get out and campaign for the midterms. So, there's not a lot of time in Congress to get something done. And, yes, I think this is a catalyst. People know that there have been many immigration issues over the course of months that we have been hearing about, but when they see families torn together, this is -- hey, we can't wait any longer. We need to do something about this now.</s>PAUL: So, we just heard from Representative Rooney there saying that he'd rather keep the families unified. He'd detain them and adjudicate them. He is not comfortable with this. Will Hurd has said the same thing. We are five months away from midterms. This has captured the attention of everyone. Do you believe there will be some political hell to pay for this on one side or the other?</s>TORRANCE: You know, Christi, I think there will, although it's always hard to say what Trump's base will think. You know, Trump's base has turned out to be very loyal to the president and when he blames Democrats for this problem -- now we know that that's not the case. We know this is a policy from his office. And, in fact, you know, the last two administrations actually apparently thought about doing this and I read a great piece that detail some of their discussions and they finally decided no, we can't do this. The optics are bad, and morally, it's bad. And so, no, this is definitely this administration, but will President Trump be successful in convincing a number of voters that that's not the case, that it is somebody else's fault? I hope not. I hope they watch CNN and see what's really going on here. But, yes, I think -- you know, I think maybe some voters that were thinking, well, President Trump's presidency hasn't been so bad and some successes, there were other things, they might see this and get riled up and this may get people a little more enthusiastic and interested in getting to those mid terms.</s>SAVIDGE: Yes, we've heard this before, but it may truly be the case because this has just exploded on social media, as well as in public conversations. Thanks very much, Kelly Jane Torrance, for joining us.</s>TORRANCE: Thank you.</s>PAUL: Thank you, Kelly. So, of course, immigration dominating the national conversation right now, but there is another story that's gaining some attention. A daughter is sharing quite an emotional account of her father arrested and facing deportation after living in the U.S. legally for nearly 50 years.</s>SAVIDGE: Plus, Kim Jong-un and President Trump exchange phone numbers this week. What do you know? And the first phone call between the two of them, it could happen today. Next, we'll go live to South Korea.</s>PAUL: And we want to share with you some stunning new pictures from the Kilauea volcano. See how the lava has changed Hawaii's landscape. We'll show you more in a moment.