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In june of this year, this country and the whole world rose up in horror when we saw that america was ripping children from their parents at our borders. and yet, today, just a few days before the christmas holiday, we have 15,000 children in this facility here in tornillo and around the country that are basically in child prisons. this is unacceptable for this great country. >> minnesota senator tina smith part of a delegation at the border this weekend. touring a detention center where thousands of migrant children are still being held. their mission is to highlight the young children at the...

Wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration. this is a very, if it comes to it, absolutely. >> that's the face of the policy. >> and this is the end result of this zero tolerance policy that this administration put into place and now what they're doing is it's called metering. they are pushing people to wait to come in legally and to follow the law and present themselves as asylum seekers at the border, so then they go around and they try to come in any way that they can and it's really shocking what's happening. we have 15,000 children that are in these detention facilities, like...

Girl in the custody of customs and border patrol. she died hours after she crossed the border with her father in a remote section of new mexico. cal, members of congress, they are right there behind you in tornillo, texas. what are they saying? >> they're trying to gain access to the tent city. as you'll remember it opened in june, only 450 children at that time. it's now swollen to 2700 migrant children. the themes that you tack do congress members is a sense of shock. you will here from congresswoman chu. >> i am shocked and outraged. there are 2700 children, ages 13 to 17, who are in essenc...

By the federal government in june of this year and it is gigantic, as well. 2,300 people are being held at this brand new facility in texas. that makes it bigger than every single federal prison in the united states except for that one old mega prison in new jersey. but this big, new facility in texas, it is not a federal prison, not technically. what it is, is a giant de facto jail for kids who haven't been found to have committed any crimes. this is the shelter built by the trump administration to detain kids who cross the southern border. it was built in tornillo, texas, during the height o...

All because of the overflow of migrant kids its separation policy called. it's in the 23rd, and on this trip i went there for my first time. out this way is the tornillo 10 camp. it's the facility for the separated kids that the trump administration set up. it's almost as many people as the population of the nearby town of tornillo. living side by side with it, the obvious question is whether it is what matters most to the residents here. and frankly that wasn't so easy to find out. i stood around looking for someone, anybody, until this guy showed up. what does this say? it says. >> pomegrana...