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Been taken away from their mothers and fathers. he's the one who's got them. alex azar. we can now report exclusively tonight on what alex azar has been doing as this crisis has spiked and as he has become responsible for thousands of children who have been taken away from their parents. as the number of kids taken away from their parents has reached critical mass, as the country has started to realize the reality and the scale of this policy, as his agency started to have to open their first new purpose-built facilities that they constructed specifically to hold kids apart from their parents,...

Cevallos is also in mcallen, texas, outside a federal criminal court and cal perry is in tornillo, texas near one of the tent cities housing children. kelly, start with what's going on in this administration. there seems to not ever be a real plan for how to enact their more extreme policies, their policies that anybody could easily say are going to cause a lot of drama. the muslim ban. that travel ban that he tried to institute eaon in the administration. no plan for that. no plan for the separation of the kids. now no plan for the reunification. what's going on? >> reporter: well, katy, the ...

Can help to be soothing to them, get them back to their families as quickly as possible? >> the big question is whether there's any change in policy of charging parents criminally for crossing this border gall the departmenf justice says there's no change of policy. the "washington post" says there in fact is a shift in policy. what we can tell you here on the ground in mccallen is, 17 points were in court today and the cases of all 17 dismissed immediately. back to you. >> trace: thanks, steve. as you can see, mccallen hit hard by flash flooding. another shelter housing teenage boys separated...

Tornillo, texas. we mentioned the president critical of mexico today. let's go to mexico with william la jeunesse live with mo >> this is america's door step, the busiest port of entry in the country. people come from around the world to ask for asylum or upthe fence. as for the separation policy, the women we spoke with said absolutely not. if they knew that their children would be taken away from them if they crossed the border that they wouldn't do it. agents say given time it may have been a deterrent. it's a moot point now. but as for the zero tolerance policy, everybody gets prosecuted. ...

Hundreds of kids without their parents. that will be first thing in the morning, so that should garner a bunch of attention, both in terms of national press tomorrow morning and in terms of the hometown press coverage from the hometowns of all of those mayors who will be coming from every corner of the country to protest what the trump administration has been doing to kids on the border. tornillo, texas, has become a focal point for these public objections to what the trump administration has done, because this past week, it really was the first place that was identified as a purpose-built new...