What's Your Point? - President Trump immigration policy reversal

WASHINGTON (AP) - An about face, an 180-degree reversal. National outrage over the forced separation of families who illegally immigrated into the United States has triggered an executive order from President Donald Trump, halting the practice, but not before thousands of children were taken from their parents and placed in detention camps.

The “zero tolerance policy” initiated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to be in limbo as prosecution of adults caught crossing the border with their children has been suspended.

Unless federal authorities can rapidly establish large scale internment camps for families, analysts predict a return to the “catch and release” policy which President Trump's administration vowed to end.

The frustrated President has taken to attacking his political opposition saying, “extremist, open border democrats” are to blame.

To top it off, President Trump withdrew his support for an immigration bill proposed by moderate Republicans, which he had fully endorsed just two days before.

Why exactly did the President back down and what happens next?

The What's Your Point? panel includes Republican strategist Jessica Colon, attorney Nyanza Moore, Breitbart Texas associate editor Bob Price, host of "Sunday Morning Live" and business owner Marcus Davis, former Texas State Representative Steve Toth & Chicano activist & educator Tony Diaz.

President Donald Trump is trying to cast doubt on wrenching tales of migrant children separated from their families at the border. He's dismissing "phony stories of sadness and grief" while asserting the real victims of the nation's immigration crisis are Americans killed by those who cross the border unlawfully.

Trump is being bombarded with criticism condemning the family-separation situation as a national moment of shame. And he is firing back, sometimes twisting facts and changing his story but nonetheless highlighting the genuine grief of families on the other side of the equation.

He focused Friday on the fact that young migrants separated from parents are likely to be reunited, unlike the victims of murders.