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Now are almost at capacity. they have 3,335 beds and at a rate of about 420 people families crossing the border every day. they would fill up in eight days. where do they go? what is the defense departments ren all of this and are they going to be kept in humane conditions because the flores settlement in the 90s was about addressing that exact question, what conditions are good muff for children. it was determined under the obama administration when they went back and revisited that agreement t...

Brownsville, texas, in mcallen, texas, there were dozen of these immigrants that are prosecuted daily in these. soot of questions. the immigratadvocates weve spoken of are very skeptical that this will be able to be irnld out any time soon. >> and one of the few things we can count on that you and i know as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow. if they ever put out the call to volunteers for parents to come care for these kids, to change them, rock with them, care for them, they would be inundated...

We dont know where they are. if the need is there. if theres allowed to be tactile contact from civilians. even good hearted people who just want to help. >> reporter: thats right. weve been asking to get inside these shelters and it has been very difficult getting any information. jacob has been as well for the last several days, asking for journalists to go in and film whats going on there. even to be able to witness some of these conditions. the information were getting is very limited. and i...

House because the images which were being linked to this administration and thereby to republicans were just so devastating. i think that that was all a part of equation. and then of course as we were zugts earli discussing earlier, his family members who weighed in. but this is a first at the white house. >> jacob, a few hours ago before this breaking news the breaking news that dominated the cycle this morning words that these so-called tender age children, toddlers, babies, were also being ke...

Kristen welker pressed kiersten nielsen and there was no answer. i hate that im leaving texas not having seen a single one. have you? >> we saw two vans. they left last night. there were young boys in the back of those vans. we think they were taking them to dinner. you talk about the contractors. the government is supposed to bid out contracts. we saw ice trucks and water trucks. it feels like not just from a security perspective but from what were seeing in the movement around here, again, aut...

Into the united states. then the question that comes into my mind is number one what happens to the 2500 kids that have been separated from their families. number two, where are these families now going to be detained together and will they be detained indefinitely in these i.c.e. detention centers that breaks the law and the reason they said they would separate the families so they can continue to detain the folks or do the parents continue to go to the u.s. marshal custody where they have been...

So purely emotion aside, this is a very expensive policy. and its more expensive than what we had in place previously. >> jacob, talk about this crisis, because for me spending two days here talking to people here, i dont see a crisis. i dont see people getting their jobs stolen. theres help wanted signs all over the place. whats the environment like here? >> do you feel scared standing here? i dont. >> its a warm, loving, quiet town. >> thats the message the trump administration wants u to beli...

Of like permanent microstate here, sort of federal jobs program, essentially, down along the southern border. the final thing i would say here when you talk about the sort of reality to his base and reality on the ground, we talked to people in mcallen. people in mcallen have all sorts of different views on immigration, but by and large, it is a place thats used to people coming across the border. it is a border town. people talked about growing up and going back and forth. before it got as mili...

Large this political crisis is for this white house. >> jacob, lets pick it up there. we had originally been told that only children four years old and over were being separated from parents. this reporting confirming what you had seen with your own eye, this reporting from the associated press certainly seems to confirm that infants younger than 4-year-old toddlers were involved. >> reporter: its not necessarily true. it depends on the boarder sector. i want to respond to something that kristen...

Enscription on the statue of liberty. she focused on political issues including the civil war, treatment of jews and immigration. in 1883, she wrote her most famous poemt abo about the stat liberty. whose torch shows worldwide welcome. the most famous line, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me. i lift my lamp beside the golden door. this is an extraordinary time in american history and we are honored, jacob, mys...