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Border station repeatedly described poor conditions that are not pure byproducts of overcrowded. they reported being denied a phone call, not allowed a shower, sleeping outside or only with a mylar blanket or feeling hungry before their dinner time. joining us now is julia ainsley. she's one of the reporters who broke the story. julia, this is extraordinary reporting. as i read it, it's based on government reports of what's going on in this facility. >> and that's key, lawrence, because it's not that this is coming from their individual lawyers and that the government has not been aware of thi...

Supervising border patrol agent just denied all the accounts that we had heard. we know that when the flores immigration attorneys went to investigate, 60 children reported pretty much the same ho horrific conditions and now we have nearly 30 accounts of what is taking place at the yuma facility. this head agent denied everything. but you know what? i believe the children. and we should all believe the children. and we have to change these conditions. >> julia ainsley, quickly, is there any way for -- in your reporting to determine how common this negative experience is? is it something that m...

In julia's reporting, but that's coming from a government report. it's a government report that the congress has not seen. is there a way for the congress to get every possible report of any accusation of sexual abuse in these facilities? >> we need to get those reports and we can get those reports. we need to make sure that this sexual assault is investigated, but even more importantly, we need to make sure that there is fundamental change in what's going on. now, when we went to clint, i was just shocked that the head supervising border patrol agent just denied all the accounts that we had h...

About terrible conditions because of overcrowding in el paso, texas, like that clint, texas border facility we've been talking about for weeks and also in rio grande valley. this widens it to arizona, which shows it's not just happening in texas, there is something systemic in border protection where these agents are not being held accountable and it's more than just an overcrowding problem. overcrowding doesn't cause sexual assault. overcrowding doesn't cause agents to come in and retaliate against children who are upset because they're getting poor water and poor food and take away the only ...

But, yes, reporting that jacob and i have done previously did show that border agents have been concerned about this in the past. they were even in el paso arming themselves because they were worried about riots because they saw how these people were being treated. some of them were going into early retirement because they just couldn't take the treatment -- they couldn't take their jobs and the way these immigrants were being treated in their custody. they felt overwhelmed. so i don't want to say that all of these border agents aren't doing this job, but there is clearly something going on he...