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A way to pass immigration reform so we don't have scenes like we've seen this entire week. >> there have been protests elsewhere. expected to be more over the coming days. what is being planned. >> we're planning on july 4th instead of having hot dogs and fajitas we'll go from every immigration center from new york to texas and we're going to demonstrate there for the freedom of those children and the reunification of families. that's what america stands for and on this day of independence we'll do that nationwide. >> dough ping go, thanks for talking with us. we're here at the ursula processi...

This is public portion. they now go to off camera portion off the record she will tour the facility and of course there are children in some of the spaces so no reporters, no cameras allowed is what we understand. this is the first of two visits today. the first lady will also go to the ursula processing center in about mcallen along the border, a d.h.s. intake facility. will participate again in a round table with the border patrol agents and i.c.e. they will look at the processing that goes on at the border. these are two different avenue to get to the fact of what is happening at the border...

You spent your day there and the kinds of stories you're hearing. >> brian, i was a shelter run by catholic charities a couple of blocks from the ursula processing center behind me, where i just want to emphasize over 1,100 children are spending the night alone, away from their parents. these are the children's parents who were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally. but at this shelter, where i've actually spent four days now, you see people who cross the border illegally with their children, were processed by i.c.e., and actually released with ankle monitors because nbc has learned tha...

Kinds of stories you're hearing. >> brian, i was a shelter run by catholic charities a couple of blocks from the ursula processing center behind me, where i just want to emphasize over 1,100 children are spending the night alone, away from their parents. these are the children's parents who were prosecuted for crossing the border illegally. but at this shelter, where i've actually spent four days now, you see people who cross the border illegally with their children, were processed by i.c.e., and actually released with ankle monitors because nbc has learned that the zero-tolerance policy isn't...

Point. all we have had access to as journalists is where these boys are, which is the images we have seen from that facility in brownsville. in this facility behind me now, this is the epicenter of these family separations that are happening. over 1,100 children that have been separated from their families at the ursula processing center behind me here. but there's been very little access and that is part of the problem with this administration's new policy. i mean, today you heard that pro-publica audio about the children wailing inside one of these facilities. it's with these little things w...