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In the past obviously there have been kids who have crossed the border illegally alone and so the u.s. has had facilities to handle those young people, mostly teenagers. but babies and toddlers with their parents until the government stepped in to take them out of their mothers as? thw. the first place we think they are taking them is to these border stations where nobody is supposed to be kren hours. thats the place senator merkley says he saw them in cages with space blankets and thats it. aft...

And now the backlog is apparently resulting in kids being kept locked up at the cages at the border waiting for a place. nbc ay that the trump administrations plan to solve this is at least for now to have officials start touring goodfellow air force base, dyess air force base and fort bliss, to see if the babies and little kids can be put there. so thats your tax dollars at work now, on orders from the president. its now the job of some federal government employees to forcibly take babies away ...

Grappling with the implications of this new policy is that weve been trying to figure out what our government is doing with the babies and the kids once they sunday senator merkley went to brownsville, texas, where he said a disused walmart super center is being used to house about 1,000 kids. he doesnt kw for sure because they wouldnt let him in to see the facility and called cops on him. that facility was in brownsville, texas. the old walmart. 1,000 kids. the same senator, says that on that s...

Years old, up through youth that are 16 or 17. >> so here is what we thk is ds and babies have never been ripped away from their moms and dads at the border. this is a new policy put in place by the trump administration. in the past obviously there have been kids who have cross border illegally alone and so the u.s. has had facilities to handle those young people, mostly teenagers. but babies and toddlers with their parents until the government stepped in to take them of eir mothers arms? that i...

That facility was in brownsville, texas. the old walmart. 1,000 kids. the same senator, says that on that same trip he also saw kids being kept in cages at a border processing facility in mcallen, texaut an hour west of brownsville also right on the border. >> the first room had a series of cages that look like dog kennels in which people had recently arrived and been put in them, very crowded. they had space blankets so you had all these silver space blankets, no mattresses. people looking dist...

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...

Deportation proceeding. >> jessica, hold on. i want to get lee to answer one more question before we run out of time entirely. detention centers. these detention centers that we are showing are from 2015. again, i want to make a point this crosses all administrations. this has been going on for years. this sort of thing, where immigrants are kept in these facilities and covered with these space blankets so they can keep warm in these facilities that dont have medical treatment or toilet paper or...

Avenue. right now i can see a bunch of people wearing -- or wrapped in those orange space blankets that they put on people in shock. so im assuming these are people who had been in the theater and the police are taking them out. i can see them getting put on a bus wrapped up in those orange shiny fwlanktz. theres still -- the boulevard is still completely cut off. there are dozens and dozens of police between us and the theater. and were basically behind police lines with the big media encampmen...