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Texas, and reported by this 12-year-old girl who was held at that border station in clint, texas for almost two weeks who says they slept on floors, were not allowed to play and were locked up if they cried for their parents. today more members of congress visited the facility in homestead, florida, that holds the largest number of unaccompanied minors in the country. it is a for-profit business called "the homestead shelter." and one of the big profiteers of that business is former white house chief of staff and former trump secretary of homeland security john kelly, who is on the border of t...

We ought to prosecute. >> as soon as we went to the el paso border station, we insisted on talking to these groups of women. tears were rolling down their faces as they talked about their conditions. they said that they had no idea when they were going to leave. they have been there over 50 days. they said that they had been separated from their children. >> just ahead, we're going to have more on this with

Me, and i'm going to stay on this and find out what is going on with these girls in this facility. because we have the super bowl coming up in 2020 right here in miami, and i don't trust that facility. i don't trust people with adolescent girls. >> congresswoman barrigan, how does that compare to what you saw in your visits? >> well, when i went down this time, there wasn't that many people. they actually said to me you came at the wrong time. now, when i went three months ago, we saw overcrowding, people crammed into cells. we did see a group of women that were crammed into a cell at the el p...

I don't trust people with adolescent girls. >> congresswoman barrigan, how does that compare to what you saw in your visits? >> well, when i went down this time, there wasn't that many people. they actually said to me you came at the wrong time. now, when i went three months ago, we saw overcrowding, people crammed into cells. we did see a group of women that were crammed into a cell at the el paso border station. that's where you saw some footage of us talking to women. people being held there for 50 days, 70 days, women crying, really begging for help. completely unacceptable. and the homest...

Quotes one official calling the situation "a ticking time bomb." the inspector general's report says "children at three of the five border patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers, despite the standards requiring that reasonable efforts be made to provide showers to children approaching 48 hours in detention. we observed that two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals, as required by the standards. some single adults were held in standing room only conditions for a week, and at another, some single adults were held more than a month in overcrowded cells. we are c...