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With us and negotiate a real bill that allows us to keep criminals out of this country. >> okay. back with me are my panel. first of all, there is no bill. this is his own policy announced by his own department of justice head, his own attorney general. it is a policy of even separating children from people seeking asylum. let me play you one more sound bite of jeff merkley describing a processing center that he attempted to visit. >> the first room had a series of cages that look a lot like dog...

>> you have cyclone fencing and fence posts that look like cages. they&they do look like cages. they look like the way you would construct a dog kennel. >> and so when the department of justice says that they dont use cages -- >> its just a matter of them not being comfortable with that term to is describe you it. they are big boxes made out of wire and fence posts. call them whatever you want. that is not the really heart of this. i understand that the processing center you are going to separat...

Work now, on orders from the president. its now the job of some federal government employees to forcibly take babies away from their mothers where they are first locked up in cages at the border with space blankets fot. if theyre lucky, they might eventually get moved to a giant disused walmart with a thousand other kids. and since that system is breaking down, maybe military bases next? when i was at the center at the mcallen border station, this is a processing center earlier, and i was admi...

When i was at the center at the mcallen border station, this is a processing center earlier, and i was admitted there, and i did see people, hundreds of children locked up in cages there at that facility. >> you recently saw chilen beinkept in cages? >> yes. >> when? >> yesterday morning at the mcallen border station at the fencing,nd wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people cant climb out of them. >> cages first then shelters like at old walmart, but those are filling up. more t...

Being kept in cages? >> yes. >> when? >> yesterday morning at the mcallen border station at the processing center. they have big cages made out of fencing, and wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people cant climb out of them. >> cages first then shelters like at old walmart, but those are filling up. more than 11,000 kids so far. now nbc news reports that the trump administration next wants to put the kids in military facilities. joining us now is nbc news reporter courtney kuby. ...

Their parents, the president, its interesting. instead of boasting about it like he does about other things that people find outrageous, hes avoided talking about it at all. when he has talked about it, he has tried to blame democrats for this policy. we reached out to the department of health and human services today to ask about this facility that senator merkley tried to get into yesterday. they told us that no one arriving unannounced at a shelter will be permitted access to the children in ...

Like does about other things that people find outrageous, hes avoided talking about it at all. when he has talked about it, he has tried to blame democrats for this policy. we reached out to the department of health and human services today to ask about this facility that senator merkley tried to get into yesterday. they told us that no one arriving unannounced at a shelter will be permitted acces to the children in their case. "even those claiming to be u.s. senators." jeff merkley is actually ...

It has children, both who come unaccompanied and children who ve been taken way from their parents who are then housed in that facility? is that correct? >> thats my understanding. i wasnt able to get precise answers, but those who work with refugees there say that is the case, that there are roughly a thousand chin insideehind those doors. without adults. >> now, you went to a facility in mcallen, and you got to see a kind of processing center. what did you see there? what did you witness? >> w...

Unaccompanied and children who have been taken way from their parents who are then housed in that facility? is that correct? >> thats my understanding. i wasnt able to get precise answers, but those who work with refugees there say that is the case, that there are roughly a thousand children inside behind those doors. without adults. >> now, you went to a facility in mcallen, and you got to see a kind of processing center. what did you see there? what did you witness? >> well, the first room had...

That went viral that was so shocking for people because it showed children in cages and then it turned out, no, that was during the obama administration, it was an old photo. you recently saw children being kept in cages? >> yes. >> when? >> yesterday morning at the mccallen border station, at the processing center. they have big cages made out of fencing and wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people cant climb out of them. >> why do kids have to be kept in cages? why cant they ju...