Democrats, we want to hear from you, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Isependents, your line 2027488002. You can always reach us on social media, on twitter and facebook. House members on friday in the House Oversight committee described what they saw during their tours of the Detention Centers and they also sparred with each other about who was to blame. One of the first senators lawmakers to talk was representative alexandria ocasiocortez. Heres what she had to say. [video clip] much has been made about cbp agents in this hearing as well. This is not their fault. Agree. Respects, i woul it is the policy of dehumanization implemented by this administration laid at the feet of Stephen Miller causing the violence and dehumanization where hurt people hurt people. I would like to seek unanimous consent to submit the record of 17 women i met during my trip to the border. Universeswo different and it feels like we are speaking in two different worlds. One of the reasons for that, i believe, is because when we took our tour of the border, one of the first things we were told was that we were not allowed to speak to the migrants. We were not allowed to have contact with them, that we shouldnt. This was given for reasons of their safety. After we were asked to surrender our cell phones at the beginning and oneour, we went in a secretfficers Members Group where cbp were planning to harm or encouraging harm of myself and mocking the deaths of Migrant Children. We walked into this facility. We were asked to surrender our phones. We went in and one of the officers attempted to sneak a photograph of myself and other congressional members. At that point, we asked to enter one of the cells. We were allowed to speak to the women. It is their handwriting. While we were asked to only speak to officers, we are not getting the accounts of migrants of mistreatment, of what they are experiencing. When these women tell me they were put into a cell and that working andot they were told to drink out of a toilet bowl, i believe them. I believed these women. Sores ied the canker saw in their mouths because they were only fed a nutritious food. Were forcedhat they to sleep on concrete floors. Host house members have also toured some of the detention facilities. Roys texas republican chip talking about what he observed at these detention facilities. [video clip] i represent texas 21 off the san antonio. Texas 21 is 95 miles from the border with mexico. Ive been to the border multiple times. I didnt just come recently, putting on a show for the media. Its been a career of trying to secure the border and do our jobs. My chief of staff went to the border after hearing all the horror stories. My chief of staff had a very different experience in terms of what he saw, in terms of the cleanliness of facilities, in terms of Border Patrol trying to makingjob, in terms of sure they do have portable water where we were told they didnt have water to drink. Having the toothpaste, the food, the diapers, the things that are necessary to take care of people after a long, hard journey. After we created the very magnet that is causing these migrants to come through and be abused by cartels while this body cowardly sits in the corner while doing nothing about it. As certainhe stories station gangs or the trains and demand a toll. They said they would hold us until we arranged to pay. If you couldnt pay, they would throw you off the roof. Ago, a 19yearold woman fell from one of these trains. The train stopped and the woman hopped off to buy cheese and roles. And rolls. Yards. In dragged her 100 coyotes take advantage of our system. One in three women are sexually assaulted. This is the reality of whats happened between the northern triangle and texas. Because we refused to do our job. Host lets go to the phones and see what arguers think of this what our viewers think of this issue. Joe, good morning. Caller good morning, sir. 1030 adults have died. Hypocrite is such a for saying they are taking care of very well. The hypocrisy of these two persons i thought the gop were christians. I cannot believe it. Hitler exactly how adolf did his country. They are not humans for god sakes. Somebody needs to help us. For privateson prisons . This is not right. Come on. Host dean calling from louisville, kentucky on the republican line. Caller good morning. Ive heard about the people drinking out of toilet. When i went to the va hospital , they told me to give a stool sample they said open up the sink and the towel comes out. Sink. P part of that was a people do they in vietnam,e they called me baby killer. Here come the gis mistreating them. The Democratic Party thank you. Host and calling from washington, d. C. On the callingic line ann from washington, d. C. On the democratic line. Caller i think the blame goes all around. We send our children to these good schools, these colleges, they go to cambridge, they have harvard, yale and we are behaving in this way toward another country. To theme goes also people who are helping the. Eople at the border they know all about germany. They know what happened in germany to people. They know what the conditions are like in the concentration camp. The blame goes to all of us. Our leaders in the last 30 years have not made good laws about people coming into this country. We have sent them to congress, we have sent them to our government and they have not worked, theyve been not working. Theyve been sitting on their hands and doing things to one another instead of making laws that protect and keep our country a good place to be. Host what do you think should be done . What do you think are the steps that need to be taken right now to help solve this . Caller as an emergency thing, there should be some i hate to say this, but to be honest, i think that all im not a trumper and i would never agree to anything except you have to all of laws you cant a sudden start making laws. Those laws have to come from the beple weve set that cant overturned. It was president ial preference. He had to do that. We are allhing is responsible and we all know what we are doing when we begin to hold people in that way. You cannot tell me everybody in that congress does not know about hitler and all that mess. Aspect is in any wrong for this country. Host mike calling from rocky point on the independent line. Caller good morning. Who has workedd since 16 and paid taxes, Social Security is the third rail of politics. These illegals are coming over here and working and not contributing to the Social Security and Orderly Society that our politicians put in place for us. Illegals of allowing over here hoping that sooner or later they will become democrat voters, they are liquidating the and theity of a future democrats want to turn and use these people as a pawn to turn this country into a socialist nation. Host speaking specifically about the detention facilities, what do you think should be done about that right now . There seems to be a crisis going on right now. Caller we should put more pressure on mexico, honduras and guatemala and all those places to stop the crossing of the illegals coming across the border so that the laws that are ,nacted can be used properly not just to gain access to our border so they can walk across it. Host lets go to george calling from inglewood, florida on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Bring to yourto attention that all the responsibility of the border and the people coming through mexico , do they have responsibility . I never hear the mexican its like hes obsolete from any responsibility. If they cannot control their country, should and they step aside and let somebody run their country . Everyplace is supposed to have their policeman, their army, whatever. Thereook at america, theident is letting ir president is letting these women and children come through and nothing happens. Host what should be done about the condition of migrant Detention Centers for those in this country right now . They areow working on that. Im talking about the border problem with the people being held and the people coming up in droves, thousands and thousands of people coming through the country. Not anye countries responsibility do they have any responsibility at all . , to thecan president leaders not hold any responsibility down there . I never hear them mentioned. Host walt calling from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im really disgusted with my party. This is in the Democrat Party anymore. It is communism. Trump tried to stop this two years ago. If they had worked with him, i dont believe that cortez. Shes an airhead who got elected. These children wouldnt be there if it wasnt for the democrats. They get dropped off. Who dropped them off there . Its not trumps fault they got dropped off. The money we are spending on these people im on Social Security. Im getting cut while in california, they are getting free medicare. Look at california. 16,000 People Living on the streets in los angeles. San francisco, right outside Nancy Pelosis place, they dont see it. The jewish people would have to get out of nazi germany. Host we will be talking about homelessness in america later on in the show. What should be done for the people in the Detention Centers right now . Got 4. 5 billion. That would have built that wall. Stop everything right now. Put them up for adoption. Happen,t going to either. Host bill calling from maryland on the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to pick up on an earlier comment. I think we need to send our military into mexican territory and interdict these caravans before they reach the border. Host are you talking about invading a sovereign country . Caller yeah. The purpose is this is a crisis. This is a lose lose for everyone, for the migrants, for the u. S. , for all parties involved. Once we go into mexican territory, that will light a fire under mexico. Your prior caller is right. What country allows caravans of people to enter the country with the intent of violating the border of its neighbor . What if we allowed these migrants to go up to canada . Would canada tolerate that . This is a situation that cannot continue. Regarding the abysmal conditions in these camps, we need to have fema set up some temporary camps. They have the resources to set up some temporary Holding Facilities until we can get this problem under control. This is just a total disaster. PenceVice President mike and several members of Congress Went down to tour some of the facilities on the border yesterday. Heres a bit from Vice President pences tour. [video clip] by shortchanging ice, its forcing you to keep people here at the Border Patrol stations. Lack ofbility ability to take them requires us to hold them longer. This station is designed to hold 382 individuals. Where did the general go . You are not going to let these folks go. No, sir. Unlike the families we saw. These are adult males, mostly. They are not going to be let go. If you start letting these people go, we will get everybody in the world coming here. Thats why we are fighting hard on the ice side. Thats why its so important we need to have more ice there. You are not going to let these people go. Correct. Host usa today went down with Vice President pence. What usa today reported about that trip. Journalists andi cameras as he toured a detention texas, wherena, families and children watched tv and lied on the floor under tinfoil like blankets. Tents and senators talk with Migrant Children pence and senators talked with Migrant Children. Pencecility that tends ured was a processing facility. In may onty opened the border just yards from an international bridge connecting the United States and mexico. It was broken into four 8000 foot plots that resemble a high school gymnasium. Theres a space for intake processing and restrooms with showers and laundry facilities. Every family i spoke to said they were being well cared for, pence said, decrying the harsh rhetoric of democrats. A facility ind mcallen. Nearly 400 men were housed in sweltering cages. Some of the detainees shouted to reporters that they had been held 40 days or longer and they were hungry. Linesgo back to our phone and talk to todd, calling from West Virginia on our republican line. Caller good morning. Im all about god and country. As far as the atrocity going on along the southern border, it is lack of the congress doing their control security as well Ronald Reagan stated a nation without borders is not a nation. Administrations to not lock this thing down and get our country secure. As didnt have this problem, withrlier caller stated, migration to canada. They know when they get to this country, they have a free ride. It is sickening. It is a trojan horse of all trojan horses. Host what should be done about the conditions at the centers right now . Ler i was corrections its all about safety and security as well as dignity and respect. They want to clean these places out, mexico needs to hold their line and they needed to stop them there. They will go for asylum. They can go on asylum and weight. There is no reason for these people to be coming to our country with a false line. They can go on asylum and wait. They understand they have a free ride. Miss alexandria cortez, they can go ahead and take all these people. Why dont they take them into their homes . Host lets go to mike calling from new york on the democratic line. Caller good morning. Im a democrat. I opposed the immigration stuff. Good, butarent too you really shouldnt expect much. There are Nursing Homes that people are dying in that arent good. This could have been solved. Trump had a deal with the wall with loads of money a year ago and he said i will do it and then someone told him dont do it. If they dont have immigration as a Campaign Issue, they wont be elected. They had the house, they had everything for two years. They could pass a tax bill but couldnt do anything for immigration. If trump and his friends in the Hotel Industry like adelson didnt hire these people, they wouldnt be coming up. Host lets talk to richard calling from philadelphia, pennsylvania on the independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Let these bleeding heart liberals and people that are complaining and protesting about the immigration situation down there they needed to go down to the border and pick one of papersamilies and sign saying they will bring them back for the hearings, but in the meantime, be responsible for them, take them into their homes and feed them and everything like that and let the politicians do the same thing, bring them into their homes and feed them until they have their hearing. If they dont bring them back, then lock them up. They shouldnt be coming into this country illegally. Ok . Host lets go to alan calling from washington on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. There is one thing they could do. They could just stop feeding them when they come to the border, take their pictures, take their fingerprints, take their dna, then send them on their way. You would stop that caravan immediately if they didnt get food and clothing at the border. Host what do you do with the people who have legitimate asylum claims . Caller turn them loose. Take their pictures, take their fingerprints, turn them loose. Dont feed them, dont clothe them. Just like when they are coming up there mexico. Maybe the politicians will wake up. Is thatat youre saying are they not being fed coming across the border now . What would change . Caller dont feed them, dont clothe them, take their pictures and fingerprints and turn them loose. Host who do you think is feeding them and clothing them now . Caller u. S. Government host lets go to deborah calling from camden, new jersey on the democratic line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Ok . Ack in history, when they got put out of their , they were murderers, warmongers and thieves. Arent they immigrants . Is immigrants. They came here is immigrants and took over the country. As immigrants and took over the country. Wait a minute. Where did they come from . Host what do you think about the conditions at the Detention Centers on the border right now . Caller we should let them go. If theyve got families, let them go. Didnt they come here on a boat and do what they had to do to make their lives happy, too . Come on, now. Host dan calling from woodbridge, virginia on the independent line. Caller good morning. I understand the need for compassion migration. A lot of people are coming from countries where its tough. Ot of people overlook weve had two republican president s who gave amnesty and said come on over. What are we going to do . You want to have hope, but at the same time, people want to lock down the borders, you cant just give away amnesty. Used to say ife you want to come over and youre here already, why not give them a tax they had to pay into the system so its not a free ride . Host chuck calling from dayton, ohio on the republican line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. T pence to the border. All these christians are forgoing to other places to help people. Where are these christians now . Why arent they standing up for americans . They have a crisis at the border. We can solve it by using the christian faith, but they failed to do it. Where are your christians . Thank you for cspan. Houseduring fridays oversight committee, a member referred to the plight of the children she met at the facility and blasted the immigration policy. [video clip] while working at Human Service and Community Advocacy organizations, i learned early on that you have to bring people in the room who cant be here. Im asking for jacqueline, age died from guatemala who from sepsis while in our care. She the same age as my son. When i heard about it mr. Speaker, we do have a crisis at our border. We have seen this current sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in our america an