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Remember, the president says it is the democrats licy. the president admitting there is a policy. he admits it is a democratic policy. she said there is no policy. thes not speaking with clarity. >> cnn has a first hand look inside the immigrant processing center in families brought through a warehouse facility separated by gender. 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 ...

Through there, i was just so struck by the lack of sound. there were small children in there. and they werent doing anything. they were just sitting there. they were well clothed. but, again, it was interesting to see. customs and border patrol, john and alisyn, pointed out this is what the facility has looked like for years now. they have more paperwork but how it looks is not changed from years. >> no. they are children separated from their parents. based on what you saw, any sense how long th...

A fathers day of action. they visited a processing and detention center to see the facilities where children are separated from their parents. joining me now is jeff merkley and chris van holland. we know you made a trip previously there. tell me what you saw over the we weekend. >> we went to five different centers, including the port of entry and different status of processing. and the facility where children are being kept, almost 1,500 children. finally we went to a facility where the adults...

Said no, i wouldnt. the white house had to walk it back. the reason this matters is the president is the linchpin to any successful push to immigration and theres work to be done before those bills hit the chamber floor. >> msnbcs jacob soborov is at the processing center that has become the epicenter for these family separations. jacob, you have been down there for the lastweek, opening our eyes, giving us access. so at the processing center, what did you see? i know well seen the videos that h...

Country is the deliberate decision by the president of the united states is to make it a crime for a mother and father and a son and daughter to make a treacherous journey, to knock on the door of freedom and be put in handcuffs. and that is whats happened. and after the parents are in handcuffs their kids are taken away to parts unknown. that is appalling. and it is un-american. [ applause ] >> i want to thank senator merkley for bringing us together. we just visited the processing center, and ...

The children being separated? >> theres a very wide age range. i think if you -- they made a policy if youre under 5 they are not going to take you from your mom or dad. we dont really know. this is a lot of chaos down her there are some things that we can see very clearly, they are deliberately enforcing this new policy of separating moms and dads from their sons and daughters. >> senator murkily, you were talking about the processing center where parents are working through the immigration sys...

Lawmakers who are inside the facility behind me touring at this point. they brought the press in by themselves earlier. i actually walked out of this holding facility, this processing center. its called a centralized processing center in the rio grande valley. they deal with an issue of the highest volume of individuals. you can probably hear the protests going on around me. im going to kind of show a little bit of that as we talk about it. we couldnt bring cameras in, they say, for privacy reas...

I had photographed her and her daughter and several other children, other families. the mom told me that they had been traveling for a month. and coming from honduras through mexico over the kofrs a whole month is a very difficult journey for these folks. often very dangerous. and so by the time they had reached the u.s. side theyd probably been through a lot already. >> what was going through your mind when you took the picture? >> well, they had been body searching people as they were loaded i...

Some of these similar tours as well take place in other parts of the country as well. this is what were seeing from some of the democrats in the house trying to get that message out there that they are hoping to fight back against this directive thats been issued by the trump administration. >> democrats in the house and in the senate, which takes us to dianne gallagher there on the u.s.-mexico border where other u.s. lawmakers were visiting today. tell us about what theyre doing there, dianne. ...

Will, they are very full. there are a lost women inside those. as you go along not as many. on the other side the same thing with men. there are far more men than women in this facility. theres also something theyre calling a vishlt processing center thats in that area. he we saw several men with ver ies that were standing in that virtual processing center. theyre dealing with agents who are assisting the processing either for prosecution or for something else theyre going to do with them who ar...