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Facility behind one of those chain-link fences and theres just a bunch of five and four and six and 7-year-olds with a guard looking at them? >> reporter: so heres what we found out. the way the separation actually works is, legally you can be in 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 t...

Came here and made this country great. and were about to lose it forever. >> are you confirming the reporting in "the new yorker" today that there isnt -- there isnt a protocol, there isnt a 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 whe...

Their parents at the border. joining me now, dr. marsha griffen. shes with the american academy of pediatrics folk on immigrant health. youve been in these centers. tell me what its like. >> its horrible. i can tell you that one time i went in with several attorneys that were immigration attorneys, but it was in the old processing center which is even worse than this. this facility was built in 2014 to hows the number of unaccompanied and families that were coming across because of the crisis. a...

Deportation proceedings. they didnt let us in when we went to go try and deliver some letters and some stuffed animals to the children who were there at the processing center. so i didnt get a look inside, but every now and then, there were buses of children that would come by, and they were being transported to another facility and, you know, these children are completely lost, completely out of their element. wondering what is going to happen to them next. obviously, in a lot of emotional pain...

Guards that we have, just guarding that one entrance over there. there is one pastor in the shelter who even warned us not to look outside, through that gate, because it could be potentially very dangerous. this is one of the most damgs ci -- dangerous cities in northern mexico. and may i add, for some local context, theres a presidential election happening in mexico on july 1st. and yesterday, every single one of these presidential candidates condemned this policy by the trump administration. t...

Where are the girls? where are the toddlers? we havent seen any images of them. >> thats a very good question, katy. there are a lot of folks that are asking that. i wish that i did have an answer to that. i dont. but my hope is that the secretary of homeland security will give us a better chance than she did yesterday, where she, as the head of dhs, basically said that she didnt know. and so thats a question that still needs to be answered. >> what did you see yesterday at that processing cente...

Reporting. she falsely claims we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. she goes on to say there is no reason to illegally cross between ports of entry for anyone. >> cnn has a first hand look at the processing sender in texas. inside a cold and dark scene. families are brought by a facility and separated by gender. dianne gallagher has more from texas. >> reporter: dave and christine, this is the rio grande valley processing center. they have a greater intake here than any o...

You saw in the processing center in the little time we have here. you said you didnt see many smiles. were -- >> i didnt see -- >> tell us what you saw. >> i didnt see a single smile. i didnt see a single smile. they are basically hurricane fence rooms or some people could call them cages or larger kennels that house younger kids and more adult men and have women separated and then a section of young girls. not a single smile. it was fathers day. it was a sad day. and i cant imagine what theyve ...

Many ways like its looked in other years on other trips that ive taken to the border. in fact, the people there, i dont think they knew that they might be separated from their kids after these pictures were taken. of course, i knew that that might be the case and probably the case and for me it was much more emotional taking these photographs this time because i had an inkling i had some knowledge of what would happen next. >> do you know what happened next to this little girl? >> they were all ...

Jeff merkley, whos been speaking out. hes been down to the border and seen the detention facility first hand. senator, you saw obviously what was happening in one detention center and now this audio is getting a lot of attention tonight. the homeland security secretary was asked about it today, it was played in the background of the entire briefing. does what we just heard reflect what you witnessed and saw? >> well, what i saw at the processing center were children who had been assembled into a...