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Unconstitutional. when and if it's challenged. but more broadly and fundamentally, this country is for a train wreck at the border because beyond those due process issues arising with respect to the asylum seekers at the ports of entry and the due process hearings, we're also threatening, i say we, the president is threatening to imprison tens of thousands of these individuals as he continues to prosecute them in camps that are very reminisce sent of the internment facilities for the japanese during world war ii on military bases at tremendous financial costs. in fact, i visited a facility ver...

Right. >> what does it say to you, or what do you hear when you hear the president of the united states while building -- going ahead with plans to build koompbs military bases, keeping their children away from their parents saying it's ridiculous, we need to grab people and deport them. what do you say to that? >> i think that this problem of parents being separated from children, this humanitarian human rights crisis, if there were due process, if people were entitled to attorneys and were able to see judges, this would have never happened. so i actually think this traumatic experience that ...

What is congress doing about that? >> the congress very sadly and unconsbly is doing nothing. and i believe, and i'm calling for it right now and in the next few days that congress must have hearings. we have an oversight responsibility. the judiciary committee where i sit should be having hearings this week to hold accountable the officials for turning away those asylum seekers, in effect denying them the credible fear hearing that they're entitled to receive if they're in this country. and abrogating due process. remember, due process is not only about fundamental fairness and the rule of la...

And there is deepening chaos and confusion, even among the border agents, the border patrol agents and the u.s. customs and board eprotection agents who say we need more judges. we need more resources to effectively and fairly enforce the law. so abandoning and abrogating due process has consequences not only financially but also morally. >> but let me ask you this. you're a united states senator, and we have consistent reporting that cbp is turning people away at ports of entry when asking for asylum. that they even in some cases have moved their checkpoint to the median of the bridge so that...

Deport them. what do you say to that? >> i think that this problem of parents being separated from children, this humanitarian human rights crisis, if there were due process, if people were entitled to attorneys and were able to see judges, this would have never happened. so i actually think this traumatic experience that america just went through could have been avoided if the opposite of what the president is saying had happened. so it's not only a violation of international human rights law and our laws, but what just happened is proof of what could continue to happen if no due process is p...