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Ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful here in america. >> the update of public charge rule is expected to go into effect on october 15th. some 380,000 people are estimated to be impacted by this, but government officials say that caseworkers, individual caseworkers that are handling these green card applications, will still have some discretion. it will be up to them to decide whether or not this will severely negatively impact somebody applying for a green card. it will have a negative impact, but how severe? the caseworker will get a chance to weigh in...

Going on in this facility. >> and that's key, lawrence, because it's not that this is coming from their individual lawyers and that the government has not been aware of this behavior. some of these interviews date back to april. they go from mid-april to mid-june, and these are routine interviews. when a child is taken out of border patrol custody and placed in the hands of health and human services, they're assigned a case worker, and the first thing that person does is sit down with the child and talk about everything they've been through and often times they describe what they went flew thr...

Border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure byproducts of overcrowded. they reported being denied a phone call, not allowed a shower, sleeping outside or only with a mylar blanket or feeling hungry before their dinner time. joining us now is julia ainsley. she's one of the reporters who broke the story. julia, this is extraordinary reporting. as i read it, it's based on government reports of what's going on in this facility. >> and that's key, lawrence, because it's not that this is coming from their individual lawyers and that the government has not been aware of thi...

They've known about this for quite some time, they've kept this under wraps and it wasn't like this happened yesterday. they know where it happened. they know who is being alleged to be the perpetrator in this incident and still nothing from the department of homeland security, beyond what we've just gotten. >> and, again, the timing here is that this girl in early june, so a little bit more than a month ago, told a case worker for health and human services that when she was in homeland security custody previously in april, which for what it's worth is before she turned 16 years old. she descr...

>> and again, the timing here is that this girl in early june, so a little bit more than a month ago, told a case worker for health and human services that when she was in homeland security custody previously in april, which for what it's worth is before she turned 16 years old, she describes in detail what she says was essentially a sexual assault by an officer, by a uniformed officer. it took place in front of other people. this statement that you just got from customs and border patrol saying this is under investigation by the inspector general office at homeland security, that's -- that's ...