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Had 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 into advance to be taken to a processing center where they were possibly separating parents and children, and one of the last people to get on the bus was the mother of this child and her daughter together. when they went to body search her against the vehicle, they asked her to put down her child, and right then in that moment t...

Vote for us, were standing up. it is cruel and inhumane, all of us must stand of and own it and notinquish or agency in this. >> my colleague mariana atense i dont joins us from mcallen, texas. we see a protest behind you. what are you hearing, mariana? >> reporter: here in the valley is outraged -- standing right in front of the that processing center that jacob describe. you can see not even the 100-degree heat is deterring many families, and lets children inside know that they have a base of ...

Turns into politics? senator jeff merkley has just toured a facility. lets hear what he has to say. >> and on the parents,hen its totally unnecessary when theyre wading for their hearing. were going to spend two minutes apiece, and if we keep to that time schedule, we can take a couple comments afterwards. im going to turn it over to senator chris van hollen, and hell pass it on to the members of the house. >> thank you, senator merkley, for bringing this together. we just came from a processing...

. welcome back, everybody. you see it on the screen there, protests over the border of the zero-tolerance immigration moment form the biggest heartbreak, migrant children taken from their parents and placed in shelter jacob has had a firsthand look at a facility there, a processing center there. jacob, good to see you on this sunday afternoon. tell me about what you saw inside, jacob. >> yasmin, this is not just any processing center. this is a central processing center for mcallen, the busies...

>> im in front of the processing center where i was told by a pio from border patrol families and children who have been separated from their parents. there is this fathers day vigil/protes just beginning over to my left. in fact, i have secretary julian castro whos going to be one of the keynote speakers at this protest. secretary, can you tell me, just as a father. were standing in front of a facility where children are being yanked from their pares arms. what made you want to be here today? >...

Parents are. they dont know what tomorrow will bring. they dont know if theres a future. what happened in this country is a deliberate decision by the president of the suns is to make it a crime for a mother father and a son and daughter to make a treacherous journey, to knock on the door of freedom and be put in handcuffs. whats happened. after the parents are in handcuffs, the kids are taken away to parts unknown. that is appalling, and it is un-american. >> i want to thank senator merkley for...

Sacrificed everything to bring her daughter to safety, and now we take her away from her. >> let me make sure. so it is an open -- what i hear from you is it is an open question whether theres a central data base that at least stores the matching numbers between the parents and children were ripping away from them. it is unclear whether that information is stored centrally across the different agencies that are managing the parents and the kids. >> the people that ive spoken with in customs and ...

Im not saying that it doesnt exist. but you know, a member of congress, somebody whos in charge of a processing center in the busiest border patrol sector in the country, an attorney whos working for a client, none of us have been able to find the answer. this is because in part my belief, this is brand new for the united states of america. at least in my lifetime. i thought we didnt do things like this. were not prepared to do things like this. but in fact, were doing things like this not too f...

Connection. im not saying that it doesnt exist. but you know, a member of congress, somebody whos in charge of a processing center in the busiest border patrol sector in the country, an attorney whos working for a client, none of us have been able to find the answer. this is because in part my belief, this is brand new for the united states of america. at least in my lifetime. i thought we didnt do things like this. were not prepared to do things like this. but in fact, were doing things like th...

That people arent being let in to see these facilities. i mean, there were a couple weeks ago when some photographs were tweeted out and, you know, the children sleeping on the floors, and that was actually under the obama administration, but it wasnt the family separation. it was unaccompanied minors so its difficult to be able to confirm what people are saying with respect to whats going on without getting access, and the senator was denied access. i have to say the congressman was actually gr...