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Been the case that you got hundreds and hundreds in places for 40 days in a cbp facility designed to hold people for 72 hours? >> i don't have the specific numbers of how many children or adults were kept over a matter of more than three or four days or definitely 40 days, but have i definitely in previous years, certainly during the obama administration, spoken with children who had been there weeks, in some cases longer than a month. >> wow. >> i don't know if it was exactly 40 days, but it did happen. i think anecdotally it's probably happening a lot more under the trump administration. but...

Many of them not knowing what's going to happen, not knowing where their children is. i talked to a grandmother who has been there for 40 days, had not seen her grandchild that she came with, doesn't know he is. and another woman who is 30 years old, found out she was pregnant while she was there, has not seen an ob/gyn. she has been there for 27 days. she doesn't know how far along she is. but also what you saw in the eyes of many of them is fear, is the sense of loss, just glassy eyes. they look exhausted and one of the things that i noticed is just holding their hands in those moments of re...

Many of them couldn't answer some basic questions of when is the last time they've seen seen a doctor, how long have they been in the facility. that alone tells you there is a complete chaos. many of them, all of them, every single one i ask specifically from the chief down that gave us the tour said throwing money at this is not going to fix the problem. and that's one of the key things that needs to be really pushed forward is when the administration asks us to continue to fund the separation of families, continue to fund the camps at the border, i'm asking many of my colleagues, many people...

That is something that needs to be very, very clear to my democratic and republican colleagues in the congress. >> on a final point here, but respectfully, the private atngt contractors that are dealing with some of the -- are housing the immigrants that are coming through, that's not the cbp facility. >> oh, absolutely. >> the cbp facilities you're touring are the government ones where it does seem the most acute and worst humanitarian wh crisis are taking place. >> absolutely. that's one of the things the agents said to us as we went through.e they said go see the hhs facilities. go find out...

Next week the house committee plans to hold a hearing on the mistreatment of children. none of that, however, is stopping the president from making still more threats against immigrant communities. >> after july 4th, a lot of people are going to be brought back out. so people that come up may be here for a short while, but they're going back to their countries. they go back home. i.c.e. is going to be apprehending them and bringing them back. >> here with me now, house oversight committee member rashida tlaib of administration who is among members who toured several border facilities yesterday...