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Exclusive reporting tonight from our own jacob soboroff, as a court-ordered deadline to reunify migrant children with their parents approached last summer, 37 kids ages 5 to 12 who were meant to be meeting their parents again were instead left stranded in vans for anywhere from 11 to 39 hours because the i.c.e. facility holding their parents wasn't ready for their reunification. msnbc correspondent jacob soboroff who just broke this exclusive story along with julia a ainsley joins me now. this is wild and awful stuff. >> it's beyond awful. there was that refrain over and over again during the ...

The officials who have taken care of them have gone home for the night. >> when jacob soboroff and i started going through these emails, it stunned us too. what we found, i simply wasn't prepared for anything out of the ordinary. they were under the entire government, the trump administration was under a mandate to reunite these children. instead of staffing up to prepare for that, ice started clocking out. when these children showed up, there was no one there to do the painstaking work to make sure each of these children were properly united with the right parent. we know about these. childre...

Facility in texas, the largest immigration facility in the united states. the letter sent on behalf of the american immigration council catholic legal immigration network and american immigration lawyers association claims the children are held along with their mothers without receiving the proper medical care or attention. they say that some of the mothers report their children have lost weight drastically, others are having trouble sleeping, some have even gotten sick, which is why the advocacy groups are calling for immediate release of what they call a uniquely vulnerable population. i.c.e...

>> harris: that's not what either of us are talking about. you called these people real criminals. the ones committing violent crimes. >> i want to make that distinction. those that are committing violent crimes, i'm sleepy round them up. we should not limit any facility they may be needed to detain them. whether that is an ice facility or a county jail, or a state prison. >> harris: okay. >> we shouldn't limit that at all. that is where i'm coming from. i think that's where the democratic party is coming from. >> harris: they are not saying it as plainly as you are, though. from the reporting...

Secret, i.c.e. is rougher and tougher. they're tough people. these are tough people. >> donald trump says it's good that i.c.e. is, quote, tough but some agents have been ordered to use tactics that have been associated with human rights abuses in got. united states border agents are reported to have force fed six men who are on a hunger strike. relatives say they started the hunger strike to protest verbal abuse and deportation by the guards. this occurred at the i.c.e. facility in el paso, force feeding a controversial practice opposed by humanitarian groups. the agency says the procedure in...