MSNBC’s Atencio: ‘Hard Not to Make the Parallelisms’ of Migrant Crisis with the Syrian Crisis

EXCERPT:

GEIST: "Mariana, where -- where in the process is that young mother that we just heard from? Is she at risk of being separated from her child?"
ATENCIO: "She’s on the other side, Willie, weighing the decision of whether or not to cross over to the U.S. She says she still hasn’t made up her mind, because this issue of family separation is something that she wasn’t expecting when she left her native country. She does not know what to do. But what she knows for sure is that if she goes back to Central America, her boy, which is seven years old -- you know they start recruiting them at nine, ten years old. So that’s why they’re making the dangerous journey over here. And that’s why they’re even considering getting prosecuted by this administration, having their kids taken away. Because it will mean these kids’ life if they go back. And just on a final note, you know, I’ve also been to places like the Syrian border and spoken to mothers there and it’s hard not to make the parallelisms and to look at these mothers and children as refugees who -- you know I ask them, what is your message to the Trump administration? And that mother said, we need help. Please help us."