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Being separated from families and coming across alone that the department of health and human services is having to open more and more of these shelters in addition to this tent city in tournio outside of el paso in the chihuahuan desert. this is the newest place we've heard about. >> i was on a plane saturday just to broaden this out as well listening to your story on npr of the family, nine people, right -- >> yes. >> -- came up from guatemala. crossing the bridge seeking asylum at the border. the father told you, if we go back home, they will kill us, they being the drug lords whom nearly k...

Welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. live pictures of the hearing with the fbi inspector general on capitol hill. we're waiting for the major reck reckoning. we'll be hearing from the i.g. with the report out slamming the way the fbi handled the clinton investigation. the powerful image up folding at the u.s./mexican border. this 2-year-old honduran girl screaming as her mother is searched and detained. photographer john moore captured this. he's writing a book ten years of his work. his images. john is with me now. john, welcome.

Her mother, and here's the piece that i think not as many people are talking about but i'm just wondering about these border patrol agents, john. i mean, so many of them obviously are doing their jobs. they're doing what they're told to do and they can't speak out. have you talked to any of them? >> sure. i mean, it's a force of more than 20,000 border law enforcement officers so it's a very large group and many people have different opinions. by and large i would say most agents believe that they're just doing their jobs, and as we've seen, the law right now is the same as it's been for years...

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>> homeland security finds it's not working. first, let's discuss this practice of separating people at the border. he is john bernet, the npr southwest correspondent in texas. he had just toured the largest youth center in brownsville where more than 1400 migrant poise are being held and has reported extensively on the immigration crisis unfolding at the border. thank you so much for being with me today. if i may, before we get into the details, just about you and your perspective. it's my understanding you've been covering this border off and on for more than 30 years. >> that's true. >> hav...