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>> look at the people in the caravan. >> i am not a global nation. i'm an american citizen. >> i'm going to give you a mirror so you can look at what you are. >> let's leave it there. >> an american citizen. >> i am an american citizen, too, but i don't forget where i came from who or who i am. and most americans, most americans come from immigrants, including you. >> anna, steve, thank you very much. >> love legal immigration. >> not that much. you want to cut it down. we'll talk about it another: thank you. >> don't put words in my mouth, chris. >> just to be fair. i don't want to ut palomin...

You are. >> let's leave it there. >> an american citizen. >> i am an american citizen, too, but i don't forget where i came from who or who i am. and most americans, most americans come from immigrants, including you. >> anna, steve, thank you very much. >> love legal immigration. >> not that much. you want to cut it down. we'll talk about it another: thank you. >> don't put words in my mouth, chris. >> just to be fair. i don't want to ut palomino words in steve's mouth. that's not what we do on this show. the president doesn't want to cut illegal immigration. he wants to cut legal immigration...

We're at capacity. this country helped write refugee laws after world war ii. you should be allowed to present yourself to cbp and have your asylum request started. the other thing i would say and i'm not advocating this facility, its ridiculous we're putting kids in the middle of the desert and isolating them from rest of society but right now there's 2700 children in that facility and 3800 beds so there's 1100 beds not full. >> where do we go from here? any effort on capitol hill to deal with the crisis at the border? >> unfortunately, not, mika. we see congress in a lot of ways has thrown u...

Officials knew and when they knew it. she died and three days later we heard from the commissioner of cbp testifying on capitol hill. hanging over this story, lawrence, is an administration that has not been honest what is happening down here at the border. the bridge behind me two months ago you could come to this bridge, present yourself to customs and border patrol and your asylum request would be processed. that deal was to keep migrants in juarez at a center that we gained access to today. and what you see at this center are children with their moms and their dads with numbers written on ...

Desperate. what would cause you to take your child and make that journey unless it was the only thing you could do to save your child's life. >> joining us now from the border in el paso, texas, and juarez mexico is nbc news correspondent cal perry. what more do we know about this case. >> reporter: we know she died the morning after being taken into custody. 105 degree temperature to the hospital. what is unclear is what officials knew and when they knew it. she tied and three days later we heard from the commissioner of cbp testifying on capitol hill. hanging over this story, lawrence, is an...