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>> this is what happens. when you call mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, this is what happens when you call asylum seekers animals and an infestation. it is only when the president has given permission to see kids put in cages or detained in tent cities like this one. >> welcome back. those were some of the 2020 democratic candidates last week speaking outside homestead as the miami area detention center holding groups of migrant children. today in an nbc news exclusive, they are reporting, quote, the government's own internal watch dog warned as far back as may that conditions in el p...

An internal report showing that back in may conditions at a border station in el paso, texas were so bad that border agents feared riots. the documents challenge claims from the acting dhs chief kevin mclean an on friday, complaints from lawyers about poor conditions were unsubstantiated. i'm joined by nbc's julia ainsley who's been following the story from the beginning. what did the reports say about living conditions for migrants being detained at this station. >> craig, this report was done by investigators with the dhs internal watchdog, the inspector general and they dropped in on severa...

Course and does make us a little more optimistic and that is that congress passed $4.5 billion in funding at the end of last week which will open up more space in other facilities that are for longer-term migrant care. for children to get help from health and human services and go to i.c.e. custody. those are places that are meant to have food round the clock, to have showers, toolgt brushes, beds for everyone, not like what we saw there. so that does seem to be a ray of hope. what isn't clear is that d.h.s. learned a lesson that they need more than money to fix this problem. it really came do...

Welcome back to "hardball." the trump administration has called reports of poor conditions for migrants at border facilities unsubstantiated. but now nbc news has exclusively obtained internal reports from the office of the inspector general for the department of homeland security warning about the consequence of those terrible conditions at an el paso border station. there it is. those documents from nearly a month ago raised concerns about overcrowding, pronged detentions, high incidents of illness and concerns that rising tensions could turn violent. in one report documented 155 adults bein...

I can't stop thinking about this picture and whether it will finally be the catalyst for change. then think about everything we knew before and it still didn't change, all the children who wound up in facilities that are so overcrowded with conditions you would never wish for anyone, especially a child. think about the border station in clint, texas and the description from a researcher with human rights watch who went to visit about the children who were covered in filthy clothes, some without socks or shoes. the kids had colds and were sick and said they didn't have access to soap to wash th...