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Other members of the house came to tour this facility. we did the same. i went inside and i'll be frank with you. it is a de facto prison. it is a holder area. it is a pen. you have the 12-foot change linked pens holding families. if it is a father, it is a large pen. there are 600 unaccompanied minors held in the facility. that number changes all the time. they are moving people in and out. this is a processing facility. they are supposed to be here for 72 hours. some of the people i talked to in here, they were here for four or five days. thats does vary. when i talked to border patrol, they...

Our arwa damon was there. >> reporter: a frantic dash after breaking through a police line. stay together, this man shouts, carrying his daughter as they charge in to the corn field. no one knows where they are going, just that they need to get far away. they had spent hours, for some days, waiting at a holder area that was supposed to be temporary and just couldn't take it anymore. stumbling over uneven ground, shouting out the names of the war zones they fled. >> syria, iraqi. >> jubilant, breathless, defiant. desperate to move. they are worried the police will come and potentially use viole...