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Have been hearing about. what will it take to keep these families together? >> reporter: $775 per child per day in a facility and look, i visited these facilities and looked over the fence of this one. here is how the government defended this facility. you have 20 days to hold minors. most of these kids are held for much longer than that. the government said this is an emergency and temporary influx city. that's all good but it's been re-opened since march of 2018. it becomes clear the trump administration is using this as a continuation of its fear tactics. >> thanks to the both you have. a...

Neglected. it's critical people conduct their congress person and demand adequate oversight over this, and that these children be removed from this facility and all border patrol facilities immediately. talking about theme being overwhelmed, we are nowhere near the height in immigration that we've seen in recent decades. so it's not really a problem with the numbers coming across is border, it's a mar -- an issue of mismanagement by this administration. they are paying $775 per day to put these children in facilities when these children have family members in the united states and under flores...

$775 a day. that's a waste of taxpayer money when over 70% of these children have family in the united states who can take care of them at no cost to the taxpayer. so basically what we're seeing is a massive waste of taxpayer money and then we're having the administration come back to us and say they need more money stofl th solve this problem. when you have somebody mismanaging money for them to come back and say they need more someone unfathomable especially at the same time they are literally abusing children. >> they are children. they are children. >> and they are young children. they are...

Go ahead. >> we passed in the past appropriations bill billions of dollars for border security. we have requested a report on where those funds have been spent. we are not receiving any answers on that. it is very interesting they're saying they were short on cash when they provided a contract to this for profit company managing the center, they are right now making about $775 per kid that is being held in homestead, which is close to $2 million a day. i also requested for more information on this, if you recall the former chief of staff john kelly is on the board of this for profit company th...

It will be a hard thing to do. but he has some speech writers that i'm sure are working on a speech. it will hopefully hit some high notes, and for one moment, at least, recall the moments we were together with our european allies at this very critical moment. >> peter, i realized tonight the first one of these anniversaries i covered was the 50th. here we are on the 775th. we have live pictures tonight of that beachfront which almost becomes a place of religious significance tomorrow, and of course all those able-bodied veterans who are able to be there are there and in place. we're going to ...