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Always on. he was mocked and an agent said what do you have a meeting to go to. just granular detail were able to get talking to him humanizes this picture even more. >> from a broad perspective, how many are there out there? >> jacob and i got a report based on 30 children who had gone through the same facilities. we understand thats the tip of the iceberg. there are over 200 reports they call significant incident reports. not always clear what happens down the road. thats just in yuma. we unde...

Times" and el paso times report describing the unsanitary conditions in detail. he did tell us he disputes that. take a listen. even at this point, you still dispute the characterization of the care that these children were receiving inside the clint facility? >> absolutely. we have added showers and lou d laundry facilities and clean clothing for them to wear. >> reporter: should this not have been added months ago before it got that bad? >> we have a entire contract in agreement. the illegal t...

That this is cruel and unusual and intentional punishment of children who havent done anything, who are coming here, fleeing draconian circumstances. theyre children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you cant throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. th...

Theyre children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you cant throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. this isnt a situation where you throw money. this is a question of the choices we make. and the choices that we make as an american people. >> jacob, yo...

Trying to relay the story of whats going on in the clint facility. >> and the higher up commanders in the department are claiming that they didnt know anything about this and the sources you have are all insisting weve been pushing this information up the line but in effect, they just havent cared about it. >> well, it wouldnt be for me to say whether or not they care about it, however, whenever i talked with the border patrol agent, whenever i talk with the cbp agent, their first thought about ...

The government itself, its a heavy lift. especially given when cnn was allowed into the clint facility last month it was a sham. a official with firsthand knowledge telling cnn, the agency prepped for you guys adding its a never ending cat and mouse game. the burden of proof on the administration. so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible it look at whats really happening inside. sper spective from the new acting director of citizen and immigration services. >> i want to talk a...

2018 at the severe devil by dhs and secretary nielsen when she was the secretary spoke about it in 2018 and it took all the way until june to get some help particularly focused on the children with the recent small appropriations bill. that helped clear out a lot of the children taken down from about 2500 in these facilities. once they got in the case of the children the facilities that were appropriate for the numbers were seeing, the problem was alleviat alleviated. before that, there was over...

Firsthand knowledge telling cnn the agency prepped for you guys adding quote its a never ending cat and mouse game. given all that, the burden of proof would seem to be on administration but so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible to get a look at what is really happening inside these facilities. the new acting director of u.s. citizen and immigration services, i spoke to him earlier this evening. acting director, i want to talk about these facilities weve been hearing so muc...

We havent seen before as thoroughly and that is border patrol agents themselves as sources and former border patrol agents as sources and we get a wider frame on the picture of who they are as human beings. they -- many of them seem very, very concerned about what is happening to those kids. >> sure. plenty of border patrol agents are neighbors, many of them joined the agency here in el paso and certainly many people in el paso know a border patrol agent or cbp agent and this reporting, yes, you...

Absolutely critical. >> still, there have been reports that -- "new york times," for example, reported that they did a deep dive into this clint facility, drew it out, they named the guy who runs it and quoted him as saying questionable things, hes known as an immigration hard-liner, and the facility was rejecting donations of diapers and food and other things. how do we, you know, maybe sure that the people running these facilities are doing it in a way not just with our values, but with our la...