caitlin dickerson the immigration reporter for the new york times called out the official lies surrounding this story over the years tweeting 1st to the department of homeland security said mass separations weren't happening they said the documents my sources provided were fake then they said separations were an unintended consequence when in fact they were always the point years later the i.g. confirms again the truth. and speaking of barbaric practices let us now jump over to the great state of oklahoma where according to charges filed on monday oklahoma county jail detention officers took a page out of the old one tom obey torture playbook and physically chained incarcerated people to walls and forced them to listen to the popular kids song baby shark on loop at extremely high volumes over and over and over again for hours on end. is this the united states we were taught about in schools when we were growing up when then wantonly terrorizes families whose only crime was crossing an imaginary line one who tortures prisoners for what laughs at the end of the day. these are the actions of

caitlin dickerson brokthe story, and fills in the rest of the picture for us now. lin, welcome back to the "newshour" and thanks for being with us. you have covered a number ofab storiet the care and custody of migrate children by the tatrump adminisn, family separation, kids being held ino tells before they were depored, but you said this practice that ve uncovered has potentially more devastating complications. why? what did you mean by that? >> well, i think the easiest way to underand it is tout yourself in the shoes of a parent. an, you know, there are a lot of different circumes that are leading kids to cross the american border alone,but at ast one of them which is quite common is, you know, parents end acup staying bk in home country, and a child makes the journey to the united states on their own tbecause they do feel safe, you know, again, for a number of fferent reasons they cross the american border alone and the parent has an expectation of where their child is going to end up and almost in every case when we know a chirold ces the border alone, they ha