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And sure enough, the deputy found marks car inside the apparently locked parking lot, behind this chain. except the lot wasnt exactly locked anymore. when the deputy looked closer to the chain link, he discovered that one of the links had been cut and the link was placed and attached to the other links, making it appear that it was intact. keith morrison: and then, this was pure chance really, the deputies spotted the suv just down the road and pulled it over. peered around the driver into the b...

The sheriffs dispatcher sent a deputy to have a look. and sure enough, the deputy found marks car inside the apparently locked parking lot, behind this chain. except the lot wasnt exactly locked anymore. >> when the deputy looked closer to the chain link, he discovered that one of the links had been cut and that link was placed and attached to the other links making it appear that it was intact. >> reporter: and then, this was pure chance, really. the deputy spotted the suv just down the road an...

Boys. there are mothers with their babies and with small children. family units are together if its a very small child, but little girls who are 12 years old are taken away from the rest of their families and held separately, or little boys. and theyre all on the concrete floors in cages. theres just no other way to describe it. theyre big, chain link cages on cold concrete floors and metal blankets handed out to people. people are all just waiting and frightened. i was very lucky to have someon...

About 26 legislators who traveled here from across the country trying to see firsthand exactly what it looked like and they described the scenes inside as heartbreaking, seeing women and children in these enclosures, many of them have described them -- many critics have described them as cages. lawmakers describe these chain link fences that people with kept in and theyre also really calling for immigration legislation. they feel that is the ultimate fix and at the same time, they also spoke to ...

Welcome back. im poppy harlow in new york. congressman peter welch, a democrat from vermont, went to the southern border in texas to see firsthand what the children are experiencing. the children being held away from their parents. he described the troubling conditions that he saw firsthand in an op-ed this morning and he joins me now. thank you for being here, congressman. >> thank you. >> can you walk me through what you were allowed to see? >> well, quite a bit. this is led by senator merkley...

Are chain link fenceors any type of caged facilities on this property and they assured us that there were none, that at this facility children ever old enough to understand order and rules and were not seeing any of those things inside this facility. >> and my last question if the you mentioned 70 of the children of these minors that you saw in this facility that are housed that the facility where you are in florida have been separated from their parents. any guidance from dhs? i know you asked ...

Where the majority of the american people stand and i think the administration needs to do the right thing and address this issue immediately. >> one of the most striking images of course showing the chain-link fencing and weve heard it described as a cage. is that mostly what is in the facility, these individual chain-link fence cages or whatever you want to call them? >> that is correct. it is 100% in the particular facility in the mcallen area, about a 75,000 square-feet warehouse with chain-...

Like cages. >> yeah. >> what i want to hear from you, john, since you were in the brownsville facility, what are we not seeing? >> well, first of all, those chain link -- those chain link fences were there in 2014 under the obama administration. when the kids came across, all the families were put in there as well. bow l bologna sandwiches, space blankets, its unpleasant. what we saw is a small tour of casa padre, the largest child migrant shelter in the country. 1500 kids in a converted walmart...

Fact, all their personal effects except for their clothes is all gathered into bags, each one, and put into a homeland security bag and as theyre loaded up and taken off, everyone drops those bags into a pile and theyll receive their personal effects when theyre either released or deported. >> heres my last question for you because, you know, weve seen these pictures inside some of these detention centers and the thermal blankets. i know the thermal blankets were there under the obama administra...

Every time a child rings that bell they are reuniting a family with a family or sponsor. everybody wants to get to that point. it not about politics. its just about caring for the kids. stev reason they are taking from the adults is becahe adults hav broken the law. if you have come into the country seeking asylum, you are not separated. one of the very incendiary terms is that inside these things are cages. and i have seen some of the images and there are some chain link fences is it appropriat...