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That the money should be targeted to the purposes for which it was intended. these are important provisions to make sure that the money goes exactly where it is supposed to go. and i was very, very disappointed that the senate bill passed and our bill did not pass because we have to hold the government accountable. the taxpayers expect it. >> what is your sense, the conditions that you saw, is your sense that it is more the result of, because you hear the case from the administration here, as we...

To whether a child can go out and be placed with that relative in the united states. >> so you have called for shutting down these facilities. how would you like this -- what would you like this process to be, to look like? how would you like the process to be handled for one of these children? one of these children who is unaccompanied? >> there are alternatives to detention. and in fact, its less costly. but if there is proper care, then these children can be placed. and in fac, if they get le...

How many, do you have a sense, collectively when you look at all these facilities that are out there, how many folks are being detained right now for extended periods of time at these facilities? and also, do you have a sense how mane of these people are children? >> we do have some reporting that were working on. we know that the numbers have gone down. for example, in may, the numbers were at their highest. that was at 144,000 that you point out. thats how many immigrants were apprehended or t...

Immigration is a complicated topic and there are areas where trump has tapped into things where theres more support, more of a popular sentiment than maybe democrats will admit or say, but when the conversation is overwhelmed as it was a year ago by child separation, by the stories people are absorbing, by the pictures theyre absorbing right now about the conditions in these facilities, that seems to be the only thing people are going to notice. >> this is what donald trump was concerned about a...

Go, and it also would facilitate the movement of these children out from these facilities. >> what was your assessment just of the management of the facility you saw, of the work that the border agents are doing? i know theres been some discussion today about this facebook group, some current and former border patrol officers. the officers, the agents that you saw doing their jobs, do you think theyre doing their best in a tough situation or did you have concerns there too? >> i was extremely di...

Thats the administrations case. how much do you think that is valid, or how much of this do you think is a result of the management directly in these facilities? >> i think that the it has a lot to do with the management at the facilities. its my understanding at clint, the border patrol station where the unaccompanied children were, was there were open spots at the orr facilities where they could have been placed but they were not placed, and as a result, theyre being held for longer than the 7...

So theres still -- i think that theres still a chance that they should be given for asylum and have that opportunity with due process. >> i have to ask you, the biggest concern, especially for these young kids, for whatever reasons, theyre not reunited with their families, their parents, the reasons based on a range of concerns from the question of safety to the adults there to identity to the parents already deported, what happens to these kids who have nowhere to go? where are they? whos takin...

Entering illegally at some other point somewhere along the border. and so generally this has been the way people have tried to enter to apply. >> i have to ask you, with this clock ticking with the administration and this deadline here, two weeks to reunite or determine the eligibility of those kids, its going to be tough. well see what happens there. very quickly in ten seconds, whats going to happen after that? >> after the -- after july 26th? >> right. where will the children go? where will t...