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Visiting the centers in san diego. this is inhumane. it is critical that the american people stand up to this president, to this bullish way of trying to gain control of congress over an issue that should be separate and apart in dealing with very small babies. >> and tell us what youve been able to see. i know youve tried to see facilities on the california border. what have you been able to see? >> so we visited, first of all, a processing center where parents come in with their children. they...

Say jails that it is running right here in south texas where i am for babies. and that they are planning a fourth which they would like to locate in first of all, thank y the opportunity, lawrence, to share with you my experience in visiting the centers in san diego. this is inhumane. it is critical that the american people stand up to this president, to this bullish way of trying to gain control of congress over an issue that should be separate and apart in dealing with very small babies. >> an...

They are obstructionist. the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. we went safety and we went security for our country. >> reporter: the images we see our heart wrenching, many as families were separated, the processing center behind me, democrats like nancy pelosi, jumped to point blame at the president. >> this is so heartbreaking, challenges the conscience of our country. it must be changed immediately. but the president said not my fault, i d...

Listening in. what are your thoughts tonight? >> my first thought is the child unaccompanied minor is nothing new. the town hall published photos from inside of a processing center showing these children coming across the border and being detained in these facilities under the obama administration. there were a number of journalists who were doing this work but he did not blow up into this national narrative. fast-forward to today and there is a lot of focus on the enforcement side of this polic...

System set up to track parents and children concurrently once they have been separated? are you confirming that? >> after we met that young mother with her 7-year-old daughter who had been arrested hours before and in hours were going to be separated, they didnt know that. i went to the processing center where you can see the kids in a 20 by 20-foot cyclone-fenced cages. given a tour by someone whose job title includes consequence delivery. >> the job title is consequence delivery? >> consequenc...

If not longer than that. i met a family in arizona turned away five days in a row. thats what makes people think im just going to come here. im going to walk cross the river and turn myself into a border patrol agent, and then im just going to end up here in this processing center and get through the process. >> are they willing to do that because what theyre fleeing is so awful? and do they realize what theyre in for? the idea is once they realize their kids are ripped away, theyre going to sto...

This is the question weve all been asking, what happens to these little kids? according to the texas tribune, some parents have told attorneys their children were taken from them immediately at the border. others say they were separated at processing facilities. and we have shown you some of these facilities in the past few days. government has provided reporters videos they shot, but they will not allow us to shoot our own video or take our own pictures. please think about that. even if the chi...

This has to stop. and we can keep the families together while these cases are pending. >> we are live in texas this morning in front of a centralized processing center. its one of the places where the trump administrations policy of separating families is sparking a lot of attention and many say of crisis. early this morning my colleague chris hayes pointed something out. it stuck with me. there is an obvious through line connecting the worse moments and policies of this administration. think ab...

Here for up to 72 hours. the physical separation happens when the parent is brought to the processing center on the way out the door. the parent doesnt know if theyre going to go with their kid or if theyre going to be prosecuted at this point because theyre not doing 100% family separation prosecutions yet. they may not get to say good-bye. the parent goes to processing and there are so many people being processed that theres virtual processing sometimes through video conference with agents and...

Brought down here to a processing center. then they will get out and get on buses like this one. these buses go all over guatemala. here is the thing about these deportations that a lot of people forget. some of these people being deported have trouble speaking spanish. here in guatemala theres something like 32 mayan dialects. in the united states there arent translaters for a lot of them. those kids you hear about dont have basic says to even being able to vocalize whats going on and their par...