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Brought here as a result of the presidents recent implementation of the zero-tolerance policy? heres what we do know. this facility is owned and operated by southwest key programs, a non-profit that owns and operates that old walmart in brownsville, texas, thats housing some of the children that have been recently separated. we are also trying to find out what the capacity of this facility is. we have heard from the director of this non-profit group that they are receiving this wave of children ...

White house briefing. some of the words being used to describe this immigration practice of separating children from their parents. adding to the outrage, picture from inside a detention center showing some of those children housed in chain-like cages. our correspondent polo sandoval is joining us from outside a facility in brownsville, texas. polo, what can you tell us about whats going on inside in that huge structure behind you? >> reporter: wolf, its an old walmart thats been repurposed. a...

Taken to other facilities. officials told us this afternoon that none of thesetories are true, unsubstantiated allegations at this point. weve heard this from a numbe of attorneys and activists here throughout south texas, don. >> i understand you got a tour in one of the shelters where children are being held. were looking at that video, its up right now. tell us about that. whats happening here? >> reporter: one o my colleagues, bob ortega who covers immigration issues for us quite a bit as we...

When i was at the center at the mcallen border station, this is a processing center earlier, and i was admitted there, and i did see people, hundreds of children locked up in cages there at that facility. >> you recently saw chilen beinkept in cages? >> yes. >> when? >> yesterday morning at the mcallen border station at the fencing,nd wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people cant climb out of them. >> cages first then shelters like at old walmart, but those are filling up. more t...

In the past obviously there have been kids who have crossed the border illegally alone and so the u.s. has had facilities to handle those young people, mostly teenagers. but babies and toddlers with their parents until the government stepped in to take them out of their mothers as? thw. the first place we think they are taking them is to these border stations where nobody is supposed to be kren hours. thats the place senator merkley says he saw them in cages with space blankets and thats it. aft...

Their parents until the government stepped in to take them out of their mothers arms? that is new. the first place we think they are taking them is to these border stations where nobody is supposed to be kept more than 72 hours. thats the place senator mkley etlankand thats it. after 72 hours at the most theyre supposed to be moved out of places like thatthe border to shelters like the one he went to at the old walmart. those facilities were never supposed to be taking in unaccompanied babies an...

Being kept in cages? >> yes. >> when? >> yesterday morning at the mcallen border station at the processing center. they have big cages made out of fencing, and wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people cant climb out of them. >> cages first then shelters like at old walmart, but those are filling up. more than 11,000 kids so far. now nbc news reports that the trump administration next wants to put the kids in military facilities. joining us now is nbc news reporter courtney kuby. ...

Years old, up through youth that are 16 or 17. >> so here is what we thk is ds and babies have never been ripped away from their moms and dads at the border. this is a new policy put in place by the trump administration. in the past obviously there have been kids who have cross border illegally alone and so the u.s. has had facilities to handle those young people, mostly teenagers. but babies and toddlers with their parents until the government stepped in to take them of eir mothers arms? that i...