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Through. mexico has agreed to put up shelters meaning tents along their border and we are told by mexican authorities they are allowing 100 migrants per day to come into mexico, those people are told if they want to seek asylum in mexico they need to stay in a government shelter or charity shelter and their applications will be processed in 45 days. if they leave and run the country they forfeit their asylum request and could be deported. mike pompeo met with the mexican president and said the u...

>> reporter: he says he has lost close to ten pounds because of the poor diet at the medium security facility. according to him, not only are his basic needs not met, he alleges the guards discriminate against the mostly latino detainees. [ speaking in foreign language ] while hector afterand a half gaits the daily challenges of life inside detention, on the outside, he has advocates. >> this is working in the trenches. >> reporter: dan werner is with the southern poverty law center and provides...

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>> hectors future has been decided. a judge denied his asylum request. soon he will be deported. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the detainee that you heard from this in this report made a lot of claims. so we went to the organization that runs the stewart detention center to ask them to respond. heres what they said in part. any claim of a detainee being denied food at stewart is patently false. theres no circumstance where food would be withheld from a detainee. we take such allegations serio...

He was returned. he was a victim of bullying and he fell down some stairs after being tripped. >> your client was applying for asylum. can you tell us about what was happening in her home country. >> she was a target of a gang because they could not afford to pay the war tax. >> was her asylum request approved or denied? >> it was denied. we put in a request to be interviewed again.

5,171 applications for credible fear asylum request. 2016, 91,786. an increase of 1675%. do you think there is any fraud there, dinesh? >> i would like to step back for a moment and look at this a slightly different way. the founders looked at america as a kind of moral community. a group of people who have a common set of values and a common destiny. almost in some senses like an extended family. if someone came banging on your door and said listen, i am in fear because im being chased by a gan...

5,171 applications for credible fear asylum request. 2016, 91,786. an increase of 1675%. do you think there is any fraud there, dinesh? >> i would like to step back for a moment and look at this a slightly different way. the founders looked at america as a kind of moral community. a group of people who have a common set of values and a common destiny. almost in some senses like an extended family. if someone came banging on your door and said listen, i am in fear because im being chased by a gan...

Deadline of t deadline. and thats the key word, "eligible" to this administration. that means 463 mieg grant parents may have already been deported. the aclu claims they dont know where many of the parents of those children are. nbc news has obtained exclusive audio from an immigration hearing at a texas detention center earlier this month. listen to this. its a mom whose asylum request was denied begging a judge to be reunited with her young daughter. >> maam, i do wish you good luck in your ho...

Victoria di francesco also joins us. and the director of the aclu immigrants rights project. gabe, tell me about that family. i believe you have some new tape from a family involved. >> reporter: hi, andrea, good afternoon. that woman you just heard from, she had -- that was part of an incredible fear hearing. thats the first test for asylum. as you heard there, the judge denied the asylum request. in woman had a lot of questions about how she would be reunited with her child. we heard from her ...

Every asylum request, we cant. it is a hard issue to deal with. but the remedy cannot include putting kids in cages, taking them from their parents. theyre totally innocent. so the president knows that. it is a tough problem. but to use words like invade, infest, vermin, rapists, all of that, where it is desperate mothers by and large with a son or daughter, just makes it much more difficult to solve what is a very challenging problem. >> what the trump administration is now asking a federal jud...