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Standing room only conditions for a week. in another, some single adults were held over a month in crowded cells. take a moment to consider what it would be like to live in a standing room only space for a full week, nowhere to lay down and sleep or sit. inspectors noted the lack of showers. most single adults had not had a shower while in the custody of border and protection, in some cases despite being detained as long as a month. in so facilities migrants got weapon wipes. even children were subjected to some of these conditions. i quote again. children at three of the five border patrol fa...

In your reporting, has it ever been the case that you got t 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 ma children who had been there ad 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...

In mcallen are overwhelmed. there are thousands of these children who do not need to be detained, spending $700, $800 a night, taxing the customs and border protection and thousands of family members don't need to be detained. >> are we under any obligation after those children are taken into an hhs facility to an orr facility, are we under any obligation to make certain were they go -- >> sure. >> is what is intended? >> yeah. >> i will tell you, when i the first started going down there in 2014 and orr was sending kids off to who knows where, no one called to check on the child after they go...

Figure out where they were keeping them. we talked to the chief officer and he indicated they recently expanded the facility but we couldn't see an expansion. after we were done with interviewing on the first day, we drove around the facility and the only thing we could see that appeared to be new as a metal warehouse with no windows. we couldn't fathom that the american government would truly be keeping hundred of children in a metal warehouse. yet, in fact, when we came back the next day and asked the border patrol and the children that is, in fact, where many of the children were being kept...

Appeared to be new as a metal warehouse with no windows. we couldn't fathom that the american government would truly be keeping hundred of children in a metal warehouse. yet, in fact, when we came back the next day and asked the border patrol and the children that is, in fact, where many of the children were being kept. >> why were these children -- they shouldn't be there. they should not be in this cbp facility. >> no. >> they shouldn't be there longer than 72 hours max. what category are they in? why were they there and where were the adults that they should be attached to? if there were an...