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Children. they say that's part of privacy reasons. a big part of it is because they want to show you that government narrative. they want those pictures out there. they wanted to show what is in a lot of ways normal teenage life, kids playing soccer, arts and crafts projects, people getting together and going to school like you would see any normal teenager. but we were able to talk to a few children on the sidelines, we won't disclose their names for their privacy reasons, they are minors, after all, but we really did get what was at the heart of this. there was a 16-year-old girl from guatem...

It has been nearly four month since donald trump was forced to reverse his policy of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents. two weeks ago the trump administration reported that 136 of those children are still in custody, still separated from their moms and dads. that includes three kids under 5 years old. today the administration invited reporters to tour its tent city in tornillo, texas. where the government is detaining migrant children who came across the border without a parent, unaccompanied minors. this is u.s. government video of the facility released today which we're...

Or sponsors. officials say the champ now has around 3,800 beds and that there are currently 1,500 kids age 13 to 17 being held there. they say children who pass through the facility are kept in the system at tornillo or elsewhere for an average of 59 days, up from the 30 days common for unaccompanied children under the obama administration. joining me now from outside the detention camp in tornillo is justice reporter julia ainsley who toured the camp today. thank you for being here, julia. >> reporter: thanks, joy. >> we have a little bit of a delay. so i was last in tornillo in the summer. a...

Ruben garcia runs a migrant shelter about half an hour from tornillo, an area where the department of health and human services houses about 1,500 teens who crossed the border without a parent. the facility has had to extend its deadline for closing and has had to expand. >> we're out of space, unfortunately, given all of the increase in numbers. >> reporter: so the immigrant advocates we're talking about are telling us we're seeing more children, more families coming in, crossing the border, and the facilities aren't able to handle them. they don't have enough beds or places to care for them....

To get any sort of report from the fbi. for now, he conversation the facility is expected to keep taking care of these teens through december 31st. >> they're risking their life. so you have to ask yourself, what would it take for you to risk your life and that of one of your children or several. what would it take. i think that's what gets lost in this discussion. >> reporter: in the meantime, children continue to wait to one day be released, to one day be reunited with family and try to find a better life. layla santiago, cnn, tornillo, texas. all right, hello again, everyone, thank you fo...