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11,800 children. 80% of those arrived at the border unaccompanied. as we were talking about last night 2,047 of those are children who were separated from parents. >> we heard from the call yesterday -- i mean, have you gotten answers about questions from hhs about are they getting in new kids now that are being separated still? >> no. we have not. cnn had specific questions for hhs after that call that went unanswered. today, they still do remain unanswered. we have asked pointed questions. questions like, are you still receiving children who are being separated from their parents? what is th...

Very orderly, very structured. every child inside has a badge around their neck that has a barcode and when they enter and exit any building on the premises, whether that's the dining hall or the school classrooms or the recreation areas, they are scanned by personnel inside to now exactly where every child is at every time. they are also given sort of uniforms, jeans and t-shirts so they're all dressed alike and they all march in orderly lines. so it is a very organized, very structured facility. there are more than 1100 children inside this facility. we're sold 70 of them have been separated...

And unusual, an unannounced visit but one that the first lady clearly wanted to get out to the world, bringing our kate bennett and our camera crew and our live equipment to show her first stop at a detention center in texas, in mcallen, texas. she had these discussions. i want to talk about this with our panel, with the federal and local officials who are running this detention center, trying to get information. one thing that was noteworthy is it sounds like the majority of the children who are there came unaccompanied, about 10%. there are 60 kids, so about five or six, were separated from ...

Foremost, the imagery and the import of what we just saw and the fact the first lady was and is there. >> it's important. most of the children there, as you noted, are not the children that were taken from their parents. they're children that have come unaccompanied across the border. we heard a lot about this, actually, during the obama administration and he received lots of criticism for how he dealt with that crisis a couple years ago. yes, it's important that she's taking the press through. it's important that she's drawing attention to this. that said, that briefing was a little bit like ...

Catatonic. there could be permanent damage to what has already occurred with them. forgive me for looking at it with a bit of a skeptical eye. >> and these are 60 children but the age range is 5 to 17. so this is not the tender age facility of one of themve been hearing about and talking so much about. these are kids, presumably, who can community unlike some of the babies who can't and just want to be held and be held by their parents and can't. most of the kids here did strike the border unaccompanied. >> this is a hand-picked place to give the government an impression of what these faciliti...