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The indoor mask mandate came down and you dive into a little further and it depends what county your income how are you dealing with that? making sense of this? >> if you try to make sense of all this then you will go completely crazy. we are not trying to make sense of it. one gym in marin county where i dont seem to have members wear masks and then travel 10 minutes north to the yuma facility where you have to wear a mask and the different counties, different pools, it is a mess. nobody knows ...

There are now similar sites to this yuma facility elsewhere, which authorities say have significantly eased the pressure on detention centers. >> and will carr joins us live now. the homeland security chief also telling you tonight that the numbers of migrants crossing the border is down? >> reporter: thats right, tom. he tells me theres been a significant drop here in yuma and in el paso, but he says were still beyond crisis level and that congress needs to step up. tom? >> will carr for us ton...

Matter was ever followed up and no indication that they were investigated after this girl came forward to formally report it. there was no indication that matter was looked into until nbc news obtain and published the report earlier and called cvp for comment. now finally they said that matter is being investigated. today the chief border patrol official in charge gave an interview to a local reporter in arizona named victor kald roan in which he questioned him about the abuse allegation involvi...

You know. this is the man running a facility that has been holding hundreds of kids apart from their parents and any adult relatives. holding k ining kids alone cramo tightly they have to take turns sleeping because there is only enough room to lie down. one of the kids say that the officers took away the mats on which the kissed were allowed to sleep as punishment for complaining about the chlorine in the water making it too difficult to drink. >> we are not child care professionals. we are not...

The other subpoenas that he was authorized to cent out in addition to the allegations of obstruction of justice, potential corruption and abuse of power by the president, the other subpoenas he was authorized to send out is about the trump policy of taking kits from their parents and other family members at the border. we reported earlier this week on a trove of significant incident reports detailing alleged mistreatment of kids at a border patrol in yuma, arizona. they had a detailed claim by a...

These are how the trump administration has been abusing and mistreating immigrants in their custody. most of the protests are going to be right outside detention centers where immigrants and kissed are being held. vigils and rallies outside the border patrol and the ice facilities holding people. one of the vigils planned is outside the yuma facility. that one is expected to be a large event tomorrow night. again, we are expecting hundreds of these vigils and protests. the lights for liberty eve...

That this is cruel and unusual and intentional punishment of children who havent done anything, who are coming here, fleeing draconian circumstances. theyre children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you cant throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. th...

Theyre children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you cant throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. this isnt a situation where you throw money. this is a question of the choices we make. and the choices that we make as an american people. >> jacob, yo...

1. new and exclusive nbc news reporting exposes allegations of misconduct by border patrol officials at a detention facility this time in yuma, arizona, bringing what we know about the horrific conditions migrant children are facing to a new low. allegations of retaliation and sexual assault were among the dozens of accounts detailed in significant incident reports that nbc news obtained. these reports are ones prepared by government case managers between april and june of this year, which sum...

Going on in this facility. >> and thats key, lawrence, because its not that this is coming from their individual lawyers and that the government has not been aware of this behavior. some of these interviews date back to april. they go from mid-april to mid-june, and these are routine interviews. when a child is taken out of border patrol custody and placed in the hands of health and human services, theyre assigned a case worker, and the first thing that person does is sit down with the child and...