Marc Short: President Bush Signed Law Implementing Separation of Illegals

RUSH EXCERPT:
TAPPER: "How you can defend that?"
SHORT: "What I say is indefensible is what the law is. There’s a lot of misinformation about this. In 1997, there was a decision between ins and HHS that says children of immigrants coming here illegally need to be handed over to HHS. In 2008 that was signed by President Bush. The law says they are to be handed over to HHS within 48 hours. The ninth circuit determined a reasonable at of time they can be in detention is up to 20 days."
TAPPER: "The Bush Administration didn’t implement that. The Obama Administration didn’t implement that. This is a new policy we’re seeing from the trump Administration. Kirstjen Nielsen said we will no longer have exemptxemptions."