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After the supreme court ruled there was no sufficient reason to do so. joining me is judy chu, also the chairwoman of kpak, the asian pacific american caucus on the hill. thank you for being with us. we saw video here, representative, of you at the border facility. what is it that brought you to be the most emotional based on what you saw there? >> i was just so shocked and dismayed at seeing these women and these children locked up in these cells, and to hear their stories about the conditions that they faced. they were separated from their children, they were there for long periods of time n...

That's due in no small part to the influx of asylum seekers from central american countries where conditions are certainly bad, but the trump administration policy has also played a big role. instead of finding ways to process more asylum seekers, bring more judges on, the administration has taken steps to make it harder for them -- longer waits, less chance of actually getting asylum. when death row inmates in federal prisons get better medical care than a 5-year-old in a federal detention facility, when prisoners of war under the geneva convention get better toiletries, when conditions are b...

That's due in no small part to the influx of asylum seekers from central american countries where conditions are certainly bad, but the trump administration policy has also played a big role. instead of finding ways to process more asylum seekers, bring more judges on, the administration has taken steps to make it harder for them -- longer waits, less chance of actually getting asylum. when death row inmates in federal prisons get better medical care than a 5-year-old in a federal detention facility, when prisoners of war under the geneva convention get better toiletries, when conditions are b...

Officials describe the migrants even as banging on cell windows and holding up signs for help. and then there are these images. these are images drawn by children who recently were released from border facilities. the drawings appear to show children -- you know exactly what your eyes tell you. in cages, in jail. the american academy of pediatrics released these pictures, saying these facilities, in their words, are no place for children. it's a painful reminder of what these children are going through and are going through right now. let's get straight over to cnn's nick valencia at a border ...

Next to a fedex shipping center, a subway sandwich shop. right there on the corner. there's a little strip mall there called the veterans plaza. a bunch of churches nearby. it's basically right next to one of the campuses of the university of texas, their rio grande valley campus is right there to the west of that facility, just a stone's throw from this border patrol facility that is run by the federal government of the united states with our taxpayer dollars, and according to the homeland security department's inspector general, and it is the homeland security department that is running that...