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Tonight, we're going to give you a first look at the cramped conditions inside the main detention facility in texas where thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are being held antonia hylton is there. >> reporter: tonight, after facing backlash for keeping journalists out, the biden administration allowing a news crew inside this overcrowded border patrol detention facility in donna, texas. over 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children packed together in the middle of a pandemic lying on the floor with a thin foil blanket no covid tests are given unless a child shows symptoms they're allowed ...

For their kids to come up through a dangerous journey where they are sexually abused all the way to this border. it's one of the saddest things on the humanitarian site and as a human being you can possibly see. the sad thing was it was all self-inflicted and self manufactured. it could have been stopped. i'm urging the secretary of state in a letter to reinstate these asylum parts of vocative agreements that worked. that's why we saw the numbers going down. of the trump administration got this right. the idea ministration and end naïve or willful blindness date were, but we can reinstate the...

He went on, what did you make o what we were able to see inside of that facility? >> seen this many times before as a federal prosecutor in texa to the chairman of homeland security committee the republican leader on foreign affairs committee. this didn't have to happen. now the entire world is now seeing that humanitarian crisis that was caused directly by the president. we are sending these agreements that we have mike mexico and central america that work so effectively and what they basically called for was that migrants had for political asylum outside the united states . >> congressman, c...

Business and guess what, they'r coming and until we change this policy we are going to continue to see this abuse of our children which quite they don't want to lose a generation of children. >> i will rind everyone as we continue to see new images that continue to come into us as we speak. we continue to put those up on the screen as that happens. i only got a minute or so glad left ear. ted cruz also said we understan the numbers of children that we are dealing with now. that we are now seeing double the number of unaccompanied minors and cvp custody that we did in june of 2019, double. fina...

Together, i see kids one on top of another. they are crammed in this facility. in the border patrol agent who spoke on camera a few moments ago said he's had 39 kids there for over 72 hours as the legal limit. he said he's holding 4100 in that facility, the limit was supposed to be to hundred 50 fo covid, there is an unbelievable situation playing out there. what are we going to do about this. what is the biden ministration going to tell the american people is an answer for this. >> it is a crisis first of all. it's the saddest thing you can see when you go down to the border, and i'm glad the...