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Major issue. he said he is. he said thats what today was about it would be get us into that tent city and to try to get some of this information out. in fact, the emergency manager said that was his biggest concern, was that he felt like he was doing all of this in secrecy. >> cal perry down there in tornillo, texas, getting a first look at that tent city. cal, thank you for that. next, the politics of immigration meet the politics of civility. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psorias...

Ground in tornillo, texas. he took a tour of that facility this afternoon. so, cal, take us through first what you saw in there. and explain exactly, we hear so much about the kids, they have been separated. are these kids where the government lass a sense of who and where their parents are? or are these kids who are completely separated and theres no trace on that? >> reporter: yeah. so they -- hhs -- is saying that they have a beat on where all the kids are and they are going to be able ooh re...

>> put in cages and sent to camps, thats not america. >> the separation of families needs to stop. thats not the america the world knows and loves. welcome back. today from tornillo, texas, one of the epicenters of the family separation crisis that has sparked outrage all over the country, indeed all over the world. yet the idea that this is unprecedented and not who we are as americans is unfortunately a bit of recisionist history. the truth is taking children away from their parents by gover...

And were proud to offer so much more. welcome back to our special live coverage from tornillo, texas, where right now people are protesting the trump administrations zero tolerance policy, which is separating families at the u.s./mexico border and has been since early may.

There are west indian, there are african, undocumented people from china, undocumented people from ireland. are we going to see people respond to this at the polls? >> i think people are incredibly -- >> they realize what happens. joy, i have to say thank you for being witness. >> i thank you for giving us the opportunity to witness this. this is horrific. we need to face the things in our country. maria teresa kumar. this wraps up our three-hour edition of "a.m. joy." in tornillo, texas, at the...

>> yeah. and theyve also pled guilty to a crime. they quickie pleaded to a misdemeanor, to a crime. theyre not physically there. theres a lot to unpack. havent started to talk about family members that may want to take them in and foster them. they may be concerned about their own immigration status for fear of being investigated if they try to step forward. a lot to unpack here. were going to keep talking about it. thank you very much. appreciate it. coming up, more "am joy" live from tornill...

Give me your take. is this spiraling further out of control or my feeling sitting here for the first time in texas. >> watching you in tornillo, where we first reported last week that first of the new tent camps would be going up makes me think about what the future of all this will look like. and youre basically sitting in front of it. we may not see kids in cages by themselves for the time being under the trump administration executive order, but were going to see children detained together wi...

King of blame and the pauper of responsibility. hes somebody who always has a finger to point elsewhere besides the mirrors. every day mar yors have to accept the spoke responsibility for challenges in our cities. and while i love serves as a mayor, we speak the same language when it comes to real problems we solve. this president seems determined to create imaginary problems, not solve them, even though theyre imaginary, and continue to spew the lies we have heard. i was there in tornillo, beca...

Is if we keep that pressure up and my kudo is to local latinos for organizing this. >> we started this as an idea on sunday and it was because we saw so many people -- so many americans, regardless of political stripes who were angry and the only way we can bring attention to the first internment camp of children is to go there. its far away, hard to get to on purpose. it is by design. we encourage folks to visit, stop separation.org. weve identified local groups here in el paso who need resourc...

Attorney, former federal prosecutor. thank you, sir. meanwhile, of course, all of this is the focus on these protests today. related to it. that are taking place across the country. and this is against the zero tolerance policy. that michael wiles was discussing with us and statements coming from the president on the zero tolerance poli policy. this is one of the protests earlier today in tornillo, texas. nbcs cal perry was there. you heard the discussion about what the president said, saying ...