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Acting secretary kevin mcaleenan is that they simply need more space. in yuma, they did open a soft-sided facility in the end of june to move more children there just outside the border station where all these incidents took place. y, that alleviates overcrowding. one boy described he had to wait for someone to stand up before he could find a place to lie down and go to sleep. it alleviates that but it doesnt alleviate the misconduct weve seen and it doesnt hold accountability for a lot of these...

Amber tonight, we would still be full for the rest of the week in terms of stuff to talk about. just in terms of scandals and legal stuff. but i mentioned that we have a scoop tonight, and this is something that im sure you havent seen anything about today. i know that for sure because this is a brand-new story that has just been broken by nbc news. now, the reporters on this story are jacob soboroff and julia ainsley. were going to be speaking with jacob in just a moment. but the origin of th...

Health and human services. my nbc colleagues write the following. kids who spent time in theuma border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure by-products of overcrowding. sleeping on concrete or outside with only a blanket and feeling hungry before their 9:00 p.m. dinnertime. in a statement about the yuma allegations a cbp spokesperson told nbc news, quote, the allegations do not align with common practice at our facilities and will be fully investigated. well, the dhs ac...

Nations that are apparently free of such fires. that is our broadcast for this evening. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this morning, there are growing calls for labor secretary alex acosta to resign. hes defending his role in securing a plea deal for wealthy sex offender jeffrey epstein more than a decade ago while top democrats demand that he step down. plus, new reporting from nbc news. details how migrant children held...

In "the new york times" about the ties of donald trump and accused human trafficker jeffrey epstein. reports from "the times" at a party where the only invited guests were two dozen women, epstein and donald j. trump. we will bring that to you and the reporter who wrote it. and also an nbc news exclusive, migrant kids in an overcrowded border station alleged sexual result in realation from u.s. agents. holding up for a hero, we need one, enter u.s. soccer star megan rapinoe. shes chicken sou...

Texas, and reported by this 12-year-old girl who was held at that border station in clint, texas for almost two weeks who says they slept on floors, were not allowed to play and were locked up if they cried for their parents. today more members of congress visited the facility in homestead, florida, that holds the largest number of unaccompanied minors in the country. it is a for-profit business called "the homestead shelter." and one of the big profiteers of that business is former white house ...

We ought to prosecute. >> as soon as we went to the el paso border station, we insisted on talking to these groups of women. tears were rolling down their faces as they talked about their conditions. they said that they had no idea when they were going to leave. they have been there over 50 days. they said that they had been separated from their children. >> just ahead, were going to have more on this with

Me, and im going to stay on this and find out what is going on with these girls in this facility. because we have the super bowl coming up in 2020 right here in miami, and i dont trust that facility. i dont trust people with adolescent girls. >> congresswoman barrigan, how does that compare to what you saw in your visits? >> well, when i went down this time, there wasnt that many people. they actually said to me you came at the wrong time. now, when i went three months ago, we saw overcrowding, ...

I dont trust people with adolescent girls. >> congresswoman barrigan, how does that compare to what you saw in your visits? >> well, when i went down this time, there wasnt that many people. they actually said to me you came at the wrong time. now, when i went three months ago, we saw overcrowding, people crammed into cells. we did see a group of women that were crammed into a cell at the el paso border station. thats where you saw some footage of us talking to women. people being held there for...

Quotes one official calling the situation "a ticking time bomb." the inspector generals report says "children at three of the five border patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers, despite the standards requiring that reasonable efforts be made to provide showers to children approaching 48 hours in detention. we observed that two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals, as required by the standards. some single adults were held in standing room only conditions for a ...