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Rescue her and the family by taking her north. it wasn't just an issue of a better life. any parent would want to do that to help their child. and then for us to respond in this way with this demonization, dehumanzation, to blame the parents and say what are you doing coming here and then for the u.s. to be paying $775 a night per child to house them when we don't have resources for other things but we are willing to rip up families and pay that much money. this lack of humanity at every step of the way. >> we always say is this hurricane katrina. is this whoever's katrina moment. how does thi...

For. as far as reunification of families of the as soon as the parent is addressed by the u.s. magistrate, addressed to criminal charges, we have a process with health and human services to reunite the families. steve: i saw a number on axe sy soes. the federal government spends $775 on each one of these kids per day in these tent cities. so let me ask you this. you've been in law enforcement your whole career. you know that if you listen to the democrats the president could change the law and say, hey, i.c.e. guys, don't enforce the law, or congress could do something. right now there are a c...

Been seeing play out over the last few months that's led to more than 2,300 children being parated from their parents. julia, what more do we know about how this process is going to work? >> so, again, craig, we are going to have agencies caught by surprise. those high figures that you posted a bit ago about how expensive the tent cities were for the children, we heard 775 a night, that's because they have to be built very quickly. the government has very little bargaining power get to cheapest amount and they will be in that same position with this new policy i building tent cities for famili...

Are 3,335 beds available for family detentions. these are special centers. they were created, a lot of them, under the obama administration that can hold children with their mothers. we right now, katy, have just over about 430 people -- family units -- that would be a mother and a child would be counted as two -- coming over every day. so if the president wants to hold these people indefinitely and not do catch and release and enforce his zero tolerance policy, these are going to start filling very quickly and those tent cities that we saw built for hhs to hold the children could likely have ...

M we have new reporting this morning on how much of your federal tax dollars are being used to house these migrant children. to put kids in permanent hhs facilities costs $256 per night per person. to keep kids with their parents in detention centers is 298 per night per person. then the tent cities at the border to house migrant kids separated from their parents. in those tent cities we're told it costs $775 per night per person to keep those going. we are near one of the tent cities. i understand you were closer to one minute ago? >> reporter: yeah. right over my shoulder you'll see the out...