Congress are wrestling over what they should do about the growing immigration battle as the flood of people continues. Hundreds of parents and their children crossing the border. The space is becoming more and more limited. The pentagon is ready to provide up to 20,000 beds they say in tents that will look like these on military bases. A plan borrowed from back in the obama administration. And it appears that there is no end in sight with the potential next president of mexico saying that migrating to the United States, he believes, and he is in first place in the race, should be considered a basic human right. Phil keating live in homestead, florida, where he toured a temporary shelter. What did you see there . Hi, martha. For days the health and Human Services has denied politicians and media access inside the homestead temporary shelter for unaccompanied children drawing strong criticism all week. Well, today, a. H. S. Reversed course and let us in to see for ourselves what its like. Originally this place was a Labor Department jobs corps housing and training facility. So inside it appears for what you expect a boarding school to look like. But here you cant get out until they let you out. There were two rules. There is no cameraer to phone inside and no talking to the kids. There are 1,200 kids housed here between the ages of 1317. We saw boys playing soccer and basketball. The vast majority of the kids crossed the border illegally without their parents coming in solo but the shelter says 70 of the kids here did enter this year with their parents and have since been separated from them while their parents are held elsewhere. According to the federal office of Refugee Resettlement which oversees this facility, the 1,200 teenagers come from el salvador and honduras and all were captured by Border Patrol agents in texas, california and arizona. Two nights ago h. H. S. Released a handout video from what its like inside. What we saw on the structured tour that is how it is. Clean classrooms where the kids have six hours of academics every day. The cafeteria, three square meals. We saw breakfast. Scrambled eggs, biscuit, fruit and hash browns like a school cafeteria. Segregated dorm stories for the boys and the girls. There are 12 kids to each room. This afternoon florida senator marco rubio got inside as well and told us afterwards the whole situation is sad and he supports keeping the families together. Every country in the country has migratory laws. By the way, much stricter than ours. I would say of course we do. Like my parents, people continue to arrive every day in the United States. They do sow there a legal do so through a legal process. Reporter h. H. S. Tells us the goal at all of the 100 shelters in 17 states similar to this is safety and security for the children. Until they can be taken out and placed in homes. Preferably the parents or a close relative, a good family friend. And a last case scenario, foster care. Then, of course, they have to go through the immigration process. One thing we did not see here today on our tour were any chain link fence rooms, cells that have been criticized heavily this week as cages. We asked were those being hidden from our tour route . They said no, those simply do not exist here. Martha . Martha interesting. A quick question for you. Obviously its hard to make generalizations. We heard so many heartwrenching stories about parents divided from the kids. Generally how did the children you saw today appear to be doing . Reporter they all appeared to be fine. The boys really werent smiling too much. The girls were all smiling in single file as they walked past us. And the interesting aspect of it all was that you have a group of 20 reporters just eyeballing every kid so we could digest and assess how they appeared. But the kids were doing the same to us, because we were also an oddity inside that place. So some of the girls actually smiled at us and said, good morning. They do have some e. S. L. Classes for basic english inside in the classrooms. Martha all right. Phil, thank you so much. Great reporting today on that. So, joining me now is the Vice President of the national Border Patrol council. Its good to have you with us this evening, art. What are your Border Patrol agents telling you about what they are facing right now there . Its the same thing we have always faced. We are out there apprehending the illegal aliens. We are out there an rehenning the drug smugglers. That hasnt stopped. Its very frustrating for the agents right now. Because we are seeing so many people in certain parts of the media that are portraying everything with their own agenda i guess, their own agenda. Its just false. False lies that they are out there projecting. Its upsetting for agents. Martha in terms of what they are told to do and i want to get more in the point you made in a minute. Well play a sound byte in a second from synth in cynthia nixon. In terms of what they are told to do, are they referring them for prosecution or put them in facility to be held until they go to a court or is this catchandrelease all over again . We are arresting the individuals like we always have. We turn them over to another entity. They are the ones that take care of where they will be placed. But the problem we are seeing with the unification again and i mean, lets get this straight. We are not asking to be mean to the children. No one has been mean to the kids. I think the media is the one trying to portray as as the evil people or the nazis as they said, which im still disgusted by that word. But the reality is we have hardworking men and women out there. I, myself, was out there working since early today. I came out here to do this show. We have a very, very tough job. Its very difficult because its frustrating because of the lies that are being portrayed. The agents are upset. Not upset. But they are confused i would say. Because if you dont have any consequences for these individuals, there are certain laws that prevent us from holding the individuals, the children past 20 days. Im referring to reno versus flores. We know the law exists. So when you cant detain them for a certain amount of time and you dont have enough judges the problem will be that it will start catchandrelease all over again. Martha i completely understand what you are saying. In terms of the way that some of the agents, both Border Patrol and i. C. E. Agents are being portrayed, listen to this from the former Actress Cynthia Nixon who is now running for mayor of new york city. I. C. E. Has strayed so far from its mission. Its supposed to be here to keep americans safe. But what it has turned into is frankly a terrorist organization of its own. That is terrorizing people who are coming this country. Martha she wants to be governor of new york. She says that i. C. E. Is now a terrorist organization. I mean, i dont even know what to say to these people anymore. You guys have shown, you were shown the facility where the children are being held. The picture that the media likes to continuously show, certain members of the media is pictures from the obama administration. They refuse to admit that its not this current administration. We have agents that are out there taking their own food, toys, you name it to take care of these children that were apprehending. And to be portrayed by these people. You know some of the individuals that are putting on the twitter pages and attacking agents, they are individuals that were out there, that grew up with a silver spoon. We have agents out here that they are hardworking American People that are defending the country. Thats what they are doing. They are defending the country. To be portrayed as nazis or to be attacked, you know, there was a twitter that was sent out by peter fonda where he was saying they need to come and terrorize our kids. Martha yeah. Terrorize the schools, find out the addresses and terrorize us at home. Who does that . He is asking for terrorizing martha not only the former director of the c. I. A. Michael hayden made a comparison to the nazi concentration camps where exterminations were done. Its unconscionable and very difficult to understand. Its disgusting. Martha attar, thank you. Its disgusting is what it is. They need to go back to history class and redo history. They were probably sleeping in history class and they had Nothing Better to do. So they went to sleep and pick up a quick oneliner to make the headlines and sell sol books. Martha i know you are not getting a lot of sleep these days, artment you guys are very busy. We thank you for making time for us in the middle of all of this. We appreciate it. All the best. Thank you for having me on. Martha you bet. My next guest is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist charlie la duff who spent time on the border to document this in all different ways. Watch. Here is a coyote. A smuggler. He has two women on the back of his jetskis. Yes, they are using jetskis now. One woman is pregnant. The coyote tries dropping them on our shore, until he sees us. Martha here now, charlie author of the new book blank show. You can figure it out. Its great to have you on the program. I thought of you when i watched this. I want your take on what you think is actually happening here and who what are the motivations of the people coming in the country at this point, knows they may be separated from the children for a short period of time. Well, now they are not going to so that was used as a stick. We dont even know if it worked. Right . Any study will show you, any survey, any reporter knows its an economic crisis. Its an economic crisis. 80 to 90 of Central Americans come for jobs and wages. That is what its about. Its less to do with the terrorism and asylum than a better life. So when we are trying to get a grip on this thing, to call Border Patrol or i. C. E. Agents nazis, look im a regular middle of the road person. That does nothing but start a war. It doesnt solve anything. To talk about going after peoples families, im surprised to hear it. But its an economic situation. If you want a solution, i can give you one. If we talk about trade and we have mexicans at the table and the canadians. Part of the trade negotiation has to be about people because they are economic refugees. Canada has a full blown refugee crisis as well because we have an agreement with the canadians saying if they came from your Country First and came through a border checkpoint you have to take them back. We dont have it with the mexicans. Martha no, they flow through from guatemala and honduras and say okay, here is the entrance. The person running for president in mexico, i think his name is obrador. He says you have every right to move through mexico and go to the United States and seek a future, a life. I dont know why the goal for the mexican president wouldnt be to provide an economy where people can stay there. And have a good life right in mexico. But take a look at this time cover because this got so much attention. This little child. They photo shop it so it looks like she is tearyeyed looking up at President Trump and he is supposed to look down at her cold, uncaring. But the girl that was the poster child of this situation was never actually separated from her mother. What you have done in your book is go to places and try to tell the truth of the situation. How does it strike you that that is being pushed . Its needless. It doesnt get us anywhere. You know what it does . It makes us not trust each other. Because the fact, look, you are a mother. Im a father. When you talk to these kids, its sad. They are children. Theyre beaten, right . They are scared. When they come out, cameras are on them. Imagine a kid. We dont hate the kid. We have an issue. You dont have to make that up. You just have to do your job. I dont think its about hating women and children. This is about sovereignty. How do we support people . What do we do about our own kids . These are big issues. They are never answered. 2014, tremendous wave. In 2015, it subsides. In 2016, another tremendous wave. 2017, it subsides. 2018, here we go again. What is the answer . We immediate to get at a table and stop make up pictures and stop calling each other names and be serious about the country and its future. And that hungry huddle pass that is to the south of us, what are we going to do . We cant ignore it anymore. Martha charlie, thank you. Always good to see you. Good to see you tonight. Charlie leduff joining us. The putzerprize winning author who has spent time on the border. Coming up tonight the American Families permanently separated from their children. President trump the word permanently being the word you have to think about. Permanently. Not separated from a day or two days. They are permanently separated. Martha he is right about that. These people lost their children to illegal aliens. They were gathered in a large number today telling their stories with President Trump. They are called angel moms. They will share their stories of what they think about all of this after the break. Security boarding passes out. Sorry, one second its loading, look. Security lets speed this up please. Security thank you. Uh can we fix this phone tonight . Its really slow. You can turn off the Performance Management feature. Battery throttling. Or you could just upgrade it. The super fast galaxy s9. Available now. P3 its meat, cheese and nuts. I keep my protein interesting. Oh yea, me too. 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Everybody wants to blame but parents of those children are to blame. None of our kids had a minute to say goodbye. We werent lucky enough to be separated for five or ten days. We are separated permanently. Our separation is permanent. Sarah never gets to go on to be a wife, a mother. I brought my son. This is what i have left. His ashes. I wear his ashes in a locket. This is how i get to have my son. Martha stunning today. We are not hearing those stories enough. And most of what is on tv is families talking about their heartbreak while they face separation temporarily at the border. Its ugly to be separated from your kids without knowing what is going to become of them. I feel helpless, she says. It is hard to hear someone you love suffering. Martha so here now are three angel moms who were at the event today. Marianne mendoza, Laura Wilkerson and agnes givney. Ladies, thank you. I watched this afternoon. It was a very moving ceremony. Marianne, im sure you wake up like everyone else and you watch the focus almost 100 of the time of the conversation about what is going on at the border and it must be, you must feel very ignored, very left out of what seems to be so heart breaking and passionate for so many. Thank you for having me. More than the feeling of being ignored is feeling of just the desperate feeling that the American Public needs to really know what is going on. When you have a problem like what is happening at the border you cant start at the end result and start placing blame. You have to go back to the origin of the problem. That is what the parents, the mothers letting their children go with the smugglers and the cartel bringing the children to our borders. That is where the anger needs to be directed. It should not be directed at the United States for upholding the laws and quite frankly im happy that the United States was able to step in and save some of the children from the fate they were dealt and who knows what was going to happen to them. Martha its worth pointing out that for many of these kids the worst part of the journey has ended. You know, now they are in a safe place. They are in an unfortunate situation in many of the cases. But as you point out the vast majority of them are coming over as unaccompanied minors. They are sent over or brought over by coyotes in a situation that can be dangerous for them. Laura, you spoke today about your son. If you wouldnt mind give everybody a sense of what you went through and why this is so hard for you to watch. Thank you. Yes. Our story is horrific like the other moms. Josh went to school one day and he never came home. That is forever. An illegal alien brought here by parents when he was 10 years old overstayed the visa and he needed joshs truck to get some money. He beat him in the head with a clo