Rep. Castro: Family Separations Triggered Humanitarian Crisis

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas said the Trump administration’s decision to separate children from parents who illegally crossed the southern border has sparked a humanitarian crisis.

Castro made his comments during a Friday interview on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe." He noted there are children still being held – despite efforts to reunite them with their parents.

"This is a humanitarian crisis," he said. "It’s tragic. The Trump administration started separating young kids from their parents with no plans to reunify them. And that's what makes this especially cruel.

"Some of these kids are very young and they've now been there for months and months."

A U.S. District judge in San Diego had set a deadline to reunite the families.

But Castro added: "What we need to do now, what the judge should do now in this case, is take it out of the hands of the Trump Administration and appoint a special master or a committee of special masters who are empowered to use all of the government's resources to reunify those kids with their parents and to go find the parents who have been deported and reunite them with their kids."

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