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And looking at surveillance video to try to figure out how an inmate got a deputys gun. tom? >> clayton, thank you. next to the battle over immigration. the department of homeland security reporting in the past two months, nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents and are now being held by federal authorities. so many that this new facility is going up in a remote part of texas. tonight as more children being moved to the site, why the white house says theyre not to blame. h...

Previous administrations. in this case this is new. were talking about toddlers and babies who have been taken out of their mothers arms by the government and then the government has to figure out what to do with them. the trump administrations latest solution for handling these kids that theyve taken is that theyre opening a tent city for kids theyve taken at the port of entry in tornillo, texas. 40 miles from el paso, on the mexican border. a reporter for the local nbc affiliate went there to ...

Latest solution for handling these kids that theyve taken is that theyre opening a tent city for kids theyve taken at the port of entry in tornillo, texas. 40 miles from el paso, on the mexican border. a reporter for the local nbc affiliate went there to see the setup. >> you take a look off in the distance, it might be difficult to tell with our camera, but off to the left of that brown building you can see that large white tent. our crews who were out here yesterday did receive confirmation th...

And also locking up the kids, but theyre locking them up separately. this new policy from the trump administration is jarring enough but we now know as of today that its also a very large-scale policy. 2,000 kids taken away from their parents and locked up already? the knock-on effect is hat trump administration is scrambling to find somewhere to put all of these kids that they have taken from their mothers. and remember, this isnt like older teenagers who got caught crossing the border on their...

Setup. >> you take a look off in the distance, it might be difficult to tell with our camera, but off to the left of that brown building you can see that large white tent. our crews who were out here yesterday did receive confirmation that this is where the children were going to be temporarily housed. >> its just under 100 degrees in tornillo today. but the trump administration, third-place not a proposal. they have picked that spot to hold 360 kids in tents outdoors. some of them have reported...

>> reporter: its pretty chilling to go in there, chris. again, they call it a shelter but it feels more like a jail or a prison and to hear the attorney general say that its not at unusual situation to separate children from their parents for a short period of time, i mean, thats absolutely untrue. its completely unusual and its never been done before in this capacity. the reason there are now 30% of the kids inside that facility behind me the old walmart, 30% of the 1500 kids in there that have...

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Country. and the presidents hasty u-turn is causing confusion at the federal level. ill read a quote from "the washington post." after cbp officials said there would be no referrals to the justice department of adults with children caught crossing the border, justice department officials became irate because that is want how they understood the policy, according to people familiar with the matter. lets go to my partner, cal perry from tornillo, texas, what is a tent city. whats happening behind ...

>> i want to be clear here, post deportation, the individual you were talking of is back in guatemala and his daughter is still in u.s. custody? >> correct. its not just him. there are other cases, the advocates we were talking to said there are five cases that are very similar. one of those cases is a 6-year-old girl. theyre trying to reunite a 6-year-old girl who is still in the united states with her parents here in guatemala. so theres a lot of confusion just because of the way that the bure...

Being held by the government. as for this facility, theres still a lot we dont know about it. but, according to democratic law maimers who have been inside nearly 300 minors are in there and at least seven girls have arrived within just the past 24 hours. joining me now is kerry kennedy, president of robert f. kennedy human rights, hulion castro and the former mayor of san antonio, texas, president and ceo of voter latino which organized todays rally. thank you all for being here. so were here i...