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After the supreme court ruled there was no sufficient reason to do so. joining me is judy chu, also the chairwoman of kpak, the asian pacific american caucus on the hill. thank you for being with us. we saw video here, representative, of you at the border facility. what is it that brought you to be the most emotional based on what you saw there? >> i was just so shocked and dismayed at seeing these women and these children locked up in these cells, and to hear their stories about the conditions ...

Thats due in no small part to the influx of asylum seekers from central american countries where conditions are certainly bad, but the trump administration policy has also played a big role. instead of finding ways to process more asylum seekers, bring more judges on, the administration has taken steps to make it harder for them -- longer waits, less chance of actually getting asylum. when death row inmates in federal prisons get better medical care than a 5-year-old in a federal detention facil...

Thats due in no small part to the influx of asylum seekers from central american countries where conditions are certainly bad, but the trump administration policy has also played a big role. instead of finding ways to process more asylum seekers, bring more judges on, the administration has taken steps to make it harder for them -- longer waits, less chance of actually getting asylum. when death row inmates in federal prisons get better medical care than a 5-year-old in a federal detention facil...

Officials describe the migrants even as banging on cell windows and holding up signs for help. and then there are these images. these are images drawn by children who recently were released from border facilities. the drawings appear to show children -- you know exactly what your eyes tell you. in cages, in jail. the american academy of pediatrics released these pictures, saying these facilities, in their words, are no place for children. its a painful reminder of what these children are going t...

Next to a fedex shipping center, a subway sandwich shop. right there on the corner. theres a little strip mall there called the veterans plaza. a bunch of churches nearby. its basically right next to one of the campuses of the university of texas, their rio grande valley campus is right there to the west of that facility, just a stones throw from this border patrol facility that is run by the federal government of the united states with our taxpayer dollars, and according to the homeland securit...

But just watch toward the end here when you can hear the discussion in the room and when it becomes clear that one of the things these members of congress are doing in the room is pressing the staff at this facility, this facility in el paso, advocating for these women who theyve been interviewing, who theyve been meeting with, and who need some very specific medical care they havent been able to get. there, for example, is a discussion about a woman who has had medication taken away from her. s...

On his turf and playing to an image that he likes for his base? >> number one, i dont think we have any choice. he has a huge bullhorn, and so hes going to make this an issue. so i believe that we have to offer a compelling strong alternative. now, ive said that we can maintain border security, but what im betting is that there are enough people out there that know that we can do this a better way, and if hes going to proceed with a dark heart of cruelty then i want to proceed with a heart of co...

Facilities run by the trump administration in south texas in the rio grande valley. and, again, this comes right after the head of that agency and some senior official of border patrol went on the record with these public proclamations about these terribly unsubstantiated hysterical allegations and how they dont really believe anything is wrong in these facilities. well, here is their own department spelling it out, and remarkably including pictures of what exactly theyre describing. start with ...

The u.s. government didnt used to get itself into, at least for this duration, because they didnt have the same kind of policies about holding on to people indefinitely. i mean, you can see these arent facilities that are designed to hold people for any length of time at all. this is a pen basically, a concrete floor. and theyre holding people in conditions just like this for weeks and months at a time. the inspector generals office has blurred out a lot of the faces in these pictures, but as yo...

This is weslaco, texas. which i think is the way you say it. its in between mcallen and brownsville. and, again, this is in the middle of a normal american neighborhood. this facility is right next door to an olive garden and a longhorn steakhouse and there is a lowes home improvement right there on the same side of the street, next to the local police station, across the street from a super 8 motel. and these are the conditions inside that facility in america. this is not like an overcrowded wa...