today we went to an immigration court hearing in brownsville, texas. of our colleagues went to one yesterday in mcallen, texas, and dozens of parents are there and they are led in shackles and responding to the judge in unison. supporters of the policy say you need to streamline the process and that the justice department is sending more process to this area in order to ensure these cases are dealt with in a straightforward manner. now we're hearing from the a.p. report that the shelters are housing children younger than four years old. >> we're joined now from mcallen, texas, by msnbc's chris hayes who has been covering this story here on the southern border. also joining us from mcallen, texas, maria teresa kumar from voto latino. chris, i want to get your reaction to the report about these tender-age shelters. >> it's horrifying. it's a moral abomination. it's a procedural and practical abomination. you can't stand up something like this that will care for kids at the rate they're doing it. we knew this was coming. the question is there is an infras

one is in brownsville right on the mexico border from where . this report. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants fleeing poverty and violence to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means to cross into the u.s. illegally they then are often arrested and families are separated. and the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when the zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started to be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative ligh

to brownsville and taxes which is on the front lines of the crisis near the u.s. mexican border. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants poverty and violence to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means to cross into the u.s. illegally or the dead are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when there's zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative light for

i have been in brownsville, laredo, and el paso.hat you see is somewhere beeen 20nd 40 something ,eople from all triple shackled not to each other but individually, their hands in handcuffs chained to the waste and their feet shackled. they clunk and clang into court. there is this clanging sound of chains. they go through these mass processes in less than an hour come usually. answer innstructed to groups or answer enmass. so you'llll ask -- you will hear 40 people asked a question and they will say si all at once or they will say no. it is uncanny. it is shocking. it does not feel like to process. e ononr one tewith only one lawyer they plead guilty. it is just -- it just feels like something -- i mean, the photo itself added to the sounds really makes you think of something like of a great except it is completely legal in this country now to do this. it is quite shocking to see. very few people go to see it, which i think is another reason why it is happening on the border and with so little oversight. i've had trouble getting in

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well to be someone in brownsville where this separation is happening in in our communities and then to hear that when we go to court and we hear that these cases are being brought against migrants on behalf of the united states as someone who's a citizen of the united states who was born here and has lived here my entire life i strongly disidentify with the fact that a case is being brought against someone seeking asylum on my behalf using my tax dollars there's a lot to go on thank you very much christine we appreciate your time here heard it right there for someone very much on the front lines here in brownsville texas we continue to seek more information about what the ramifications would be for any sort of executive order from the white house but for now julie back to you in london gave them the songs of their life from brownsville gave. now the e.u. is set to start charging import duties on a range of u.s. products from this friday that's in response to washington imposing its own tariffs on the e.u. steel and aluminum at the start of june the european commission formally adopted

first up, my colleague lawrence o'donnell in brownsville. this is now the biggest story in the country. >> reporter: chris, it is. i've spent the day in brownsville. this is the biggest facility housing children that we know of. and i just want to begin with the mysterious quality of this story because let's remember, we don't know the exactly how many children are being detained. we don't know where they're being held. one of the great mysteries has been where are the girls. i believe i found one of the girls' facilities today. i'll report on that at 10:00 in my hour coming up. but chris, the mystery of what goes on behind those walls behind me is the story that we're really trying to get at. all we have are government-issued photographs, very few reporters who have been allowed extremely limited controlled visits where they're not allowed to speak to any of the kids in these facilities. and so the story we're working on, sadly, is mostly a mystery. we're trying to really get at the truth of what's happening inside these facilities. >> all

rosendo which is either brownsville texas. back live to gabriel now in brunswick reports of seemed today of shelters in texas being used to house bury young children can you talk us through that one quickly if you thought this story got any worse well it just did the associated press reporting overnight that they are hearing that there are at least three maybe four shelters called quote unquote tender age shelters for children that have been forcibly separated from their asylum seeking parents or guardians these are children that are infants or newborns very very young in special shelters we've got multiple calls out to various different agencies of the u.s. government trying to confirm this we're going to keep on this trying to figure out where these shelters are try to go to them but we're told that at least two of them could be here in the southern texas region where we are now but this is part of the problem i just spoke to the a.c.l.u. american civil liberties union representative here in texas and they are on the front l

the center in brownsville, texas. but now sources familiar with this investigation and with that franz pierd now telling us that that child made it to mexico and is in contact with their parents or at least relatives, rather, in the united states and is in the process of trying to make it back to his native honduras. ana? >> polo sandoval in mcallen, texas. senator warren there early likely responding to president trump calling for deportations without judges or court cases. the trump administration today also revealed its plan to reunify immigrant families separated near the u.s.-mexico border. still there is confusion and lots of questions lingering on about the current status of hundreds of children who had already been separated from their parents. though the homeland security department insists it knows the location of every single child in question. i want to go now to cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez. what are we learning today about the president's evolving policies on immigration? >> hey there, ana

government was trying to keep it quiet and gave ease any of this you are seeing in brownsville and all across the media and the public is it moving the dial it's all in terms of reaction from the white house. well two points on this we're hearing in the last few minutes that president donald trump may be signing something what that something is we don't know yet but we think it might be related to immigration i want to caution we don't know what he'll be signing we've also heard rumors for a lack of a better word out of washington that the homeland security chief could be keyword could be drafting some sort of executive order that could into this child separation that's point one in this hasn't happened yet but this is what the talk we're hearing out of washington the second point this is critical is that activist groups are saying that that we can't assume that just because donald trump signed something that that is going to end this crisis we have to wait to see if he signs something then clearly analyze what it is and if it really is going to end this policy that his government put

once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when the zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started to be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative light for i guess the environmental community everyone's kind of turning hostile it's a really negative impact on people in general i know i mean i don't know why they're doing it but i just know it's not right kids not being with their parents i don't like what's happening but they have to come in legally. speaking was there on the welfare system and it's just not fair to our all our homeless in our citizens that are in poverty it would be some people here say the parents bear part of the responsibility for protecting their kids. on that issue alone is difficult i wouldn't be able to handle it i would hate to be you away

brownsville texas well since signing that executive order donald trump has been addressing the immigration issue again he says he is they wrecked thing agencies to reunite families. i'm directing h h s t h s and d.o.j. to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite these previously separated groups but the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that if you will the child smuggling industry well let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how still kimberly as i guess you know he is making more statements since the executive order was signed but it's still a little bit unclear on on a lot of the details especially this issue of the twenty day the tension limit for children. right and that's not a new problem while there are twenty three hundred children approximately according to the department of homeland security secretary who were affected directly by this child separation policy of the trumpet ministration according to her numbers in the last two years or more the proximately ten t

miguel marquez is on the ground in brownsville.l us what's happening there. >> reporter: we're at a federal courthouse in brownsville. want to show what is happening at the moment. protesters were in the park across the streets. and then en masse moved toward the courthouse. they are lining up, trying to get into the courthouse. i have to say, the security here has been incredibly forgiving and open to them, allowing them in in small groups now. the temperature has sort of come down in the last 10, 15 minutes or so as most of the people were here in front of the courthouse, they've moved back across the street. it looks like for the most part people are going to stay lined up here, waiting, hoping to get into immigration court which started in 15 minutes here in brownsville. they say they want to get into court, they want to sit there, not disrupt. but they want to represent, let people know in the court that they support them. the crux of this are the 2,047 children that remain detained and that a federal judge's order telling the

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celsius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents. this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation has just giving way to another it's a creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is a separation of up of the innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's on dough brownsville texas. immigrant children as y

in brownsville in texas thank you. now these really military says its air strikes have hit at least twenty five targets in gaza linked to hamas it says they were response to around forty five rockets fired from gaza towards israeli territory several of the rockets were intercepted but three landed just inside israel tensions have been high since late march when palestinians began protesting at the gaza border fence israeli troops have shot dead one hundred thirty two palestinians and injured thousands more during several weeks of demonstrations herefore said has more now from west jerusalem. israeli army says that more than forty five rockets and mortars were fired from gaza and territory into israel in the course of the night and in response the israeli military struck twenty five hamas targets within the gaza strip most of them understood to be empty military compounds training areas and the like all the palestinian sources do reports at least two palestinians being injured in those strikes on the israeli side the is

which is either brownsville texas thirty afghan soldiers have been killed in the first major attack since the end of a cease fire between the government and the taliban government forces were ambushed in the box a district province the taliban said they would resume fighting on monday after a three day cease fire for. saudi moroni coalition forces say they have taken control of parts of it and airport and yemen as a fight hit the rebels they many army is also blocking the road between head out of province and the capital this would cut who they supply lines and stop reinforcements from sana hominid joe as on the other side of the red sea and ship it where much of the aid for yemen is stocked. the intensity of the bottle for what they've. captured in a mobile form the u.s. backed sodium not to call the ship has been fighting for control of the airport for a week while calling on the fighters holding them back to start and on condition that the host response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until humanitarian catastrophe the problem always is hig

this is the border fence that divides brownsville texas with mexico on the other side this is also the front lines of president donald trump's new ciro tolerance gratian policy. though that story coming up. hello again as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've still got some showers in eastern areas without sharon the southern side of the caspian sea but otherwise it's looking fine looking pretty woman tehran at thirty five now a hot one in baghdad forty two we've got some heavy showers affecting parts of turkey through into georgia and armenia says the fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean should be another fine day in beirut with highs of twenty seven degrees heading down into the arabian peninsula on the western side it's looking fine and hot with forty five degrees a mix of both mecca medina here in qatar we've got some fairly brisk winds over the next few days but it doesn't physical it's not great but temperatures still up at forty three degrees celsius so let's head across into southern parts of africa where it's lo

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celsius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another. it creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of a innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's and oh i'll just see to brownsville texas seven former de

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celsius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents. this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation has just giving way to another it creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of the innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's on dough brownsville texas margo schlanger is a law pr

. >> migrante adolescente que se fugÓ este sÁbado del refugio casa padre en brownsville texas, arantxanos costÓ trabajo confirmar esto, tratamos de contactar a las agencias que administra el refugio, centro de detenciÓn para casa padres, tambiÉn al departamento de salud y servicios humanos, pero la confirmaciÓn del rumor no llego hasta hoy, el adolescente se saliÓ y aÚn no sabemos cÓmo. bomberos y policÍas de brownsville llegaron al centro de casa padre luego de haber recibido una llamada al 911 alertando que un menor indocumentado se habÍa fugado del lugar y habrÍa pasado a un pequeÑo lago, en el agua no encontraron nada, pero tampoco ubicaron al adolescente de 15 aÑos que no tienen mayor informaciÓn. >> nos informamos que un joven fue extraviado, un muchacho que no tiene papÁs, nadie, que no sabemos quÉ pasarÁ con Él. >> pero, ¿cÓmo se pudo fugar el menor?, la respuesta en el tipo de instalaciones que manejar. nosotros operamos las 24 horas, 7 dÍas a la semana centro de cuidado de menores, no somos un centro de detenciÓn y no tenemos a menores en jaulas dijo el portavoz que a raÍz de

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celsius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another. it's a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of a innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's andro brownsville texas it's going to live to washington d c wh

on thursday where they plan to hold another big protest brownsville is where i'm at now is as you can see from the border fence behind me right at the epicenter of this immigration debate this is one of the main entry points where migrants from all over south and central america try to reach the united states to find a better life these human rights groups that will be here on thursday protesting say their message is to continue to keep the pressure on u.s. government authorities until every last child that has been separated has been reunited with their parents many thanks i was there as gabriel as on to the brownsville texas. germany's chancellor angela merkel says that an e.u. wide deal on the migration crisis won't be reached at a summit on thursday merkel's been meeting spain's prime minister and then she's under pressure from her coalition partner to find a solution to stemming the flow of refugees and immigrants into the e.u. but the block is divided over what approach to take germany wants the number of migrants spread more evenly across the e.u. but some countries such as ita

migrant children are being detained in at least three shelters across southern texas one is in brownsville right on the mexican border gate in a zonda reports from their. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants fleeing poverty and violence want to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means crossing to the u.s. illegally then are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when the zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started to be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divide

let's take you now to brownsville texas where gabriel is just outside what the government calls a center of the tender age children for infants two years old and and so gabriel we were just hearing there about obstacles in implementing president trumps order to keep immigrant families together what do we know about has any progress been made in reuniting children with their parents. well a senior trump and minute men administration official says they think that they have three united about five hundred families or children with their parents since may the the twenty three hundred roughly twenty three hundred that were separated since may that comes from a senior administration official however here on the ground in brownsville texas we spoke to the texas civil rights project a very well established non-governmental organization here that works with asylum seeker immigrants for many years down here they have been going into the courtroom cyr every single day tracking down cases and they have currently three hundred eighty one families that are currently separated that they are in contact

polo sandoval is in brownsville, texas. how surprising is it to learn that this shelter, this children's center is not allowed to prevent kids from just walking out? >> reporter: it's certainly prizing, ana, and you have covered what we know at this point, this 15-year-old child walked out of the child squacar facility and you heard from this statement of that child care facility. they are not allowed to hold them against their will, they're not even rallowed to put their hands on them. the only thing they can do is walk with the children to the property line and talk to them, but once they get past that line, they have to let them go. they received a phone call calling officers to southwest key location in brownsville, texas to report the location of a 15-year-old boy, we now know that it was a 15-year-old child from honhonduras, and we do understand based on information from sourcers close to this investigation and with knowledge of what happened there, that this child is now in contact with relatives and in the process o

gabriel is on those in brownsville texas thank you for the vents and money on a watching on facebook live who asked what about the already separated children what about the missing children are going in opposite there from gabriel well the separation of children from their parents hasn't been limited to that southern border area with mexico some children been sent as many as three and a half thousand kilometers away to the other side of the country in new york is this secretly filmed footage showing social workers in new york taking a group of miners to false to homes the mayor of new york is a critic of the family separation policy and says he was unaware of what was going on. we're all shocked and what we think is something happening far away i have to tell you i am further shocked to find out today how much this policy has now come home right here to new york city one of the children i talked about earlier young man named eddie nine years old from honduras he was sent here two thousand miles on a bus to this location and does not know when he's going to see his mother again this i

i spoke to a spokesperson from the brownsville police department who got called out there at 4:30 forhing for a 15-year-old boy in the water ways around the area, in the surroundings around that facility, but they were unable to find them. what happened next, that child was then input into a database of missing children across the country. if that child appears somewhere else in the country they will likely know who he is. important to point out who he is. we do not know who that child is and what circumstances surround his stay or at least why he was in or around that facility. we do know that southwest key, the program who runs this operation has released a statement sharing a little more investigation. i'll read you that statement that came in to cnn, the spokesperson, as a licensed child care center, if a child attempts to leave any of our facilities, we cannot restrain them, we are not a detention center, we simply talk to them and try to get them to stay. if they leave the facility, which call the police department. a 15-year-old boy left the facility in brownsville yesterday an

well we know that welcome to brownsville texas which is very much ground zero for president donald trump's zero tolerance policy on migrants that are crossing into the united states it's in this very town where there are shelters if you want to call them that they are detaining hundreds of young children that have been separated from their parents and to get a better sense of distorts very confusing and in many ways i want to bring in an expert here that we can talk to that give us a better perspective on it it's michael seaford you're from the american civil liberties union here in brownsville thanks for joining us number one i first want to ask you we're on the u.s. border right now we see the border fence right behind us that's mexico right behind us i want to first just ask you quickly the u.s. just pulled out of the human rights council at the united nations is it somewhat ironic that we're here discussing the us separating migrants from their children. parents from their children on the very day that that is going on at the u.n. i would say tragic as opposed to ironic one of the basi

brownsville texas. seven former detainees of prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen describe what they call systematic sexual torture they told the associated press they were right and abused by yemeni guards working under u.n. offices but the u.a.e. denies managing or running prisons in the country korea reports a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture and impunity these drawings were smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one caption in arabic says it's real terrorism and another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed seven former detainee spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. mission in geneva tweeted that it has never m

has been following events for us in brownsville texas where a form a wal-mart store is now being used to house migrants. brownsville texas really is the front line of the immigration debate in this controversy that's sweeping the u.s. of kids being taken away from their parents this building behind me is a former wal-mart supercenter now it holds about one thousand five hundred young boys between the ages about eight to one thousand years old that have been here detained essentially by the u.s. government we're told that about one hundred ten of the children that are in this building behind me are kids that were separated from their parents crossing the border just within the last couple weeks or so the government has showing no signs of backing down from its zero tolerance policy they're looking at opening other shelters or detainment centers just like this here and other cities on the border in terms of people we've spoken here to here in brownsville most of them say they're heartbroken by what they're seeing taken place but some others say that laws need to be enforced everybody ag

univisiÓn camino a brownsville fue testigo de la detenciÓn de varios inmigrantes.e detenidos. francisco: el flujo de migrantes por la frontera no se detiene. este es el momento en el que la patria fronteriza arresta a dos adultos y siete menores de edad, justo despuÉs de que cruzaran el rÍo grande. minutos despuÉs, otra camioneta llego y uno a uno los subiÓ para llevarlos a un centro de procesamiento en mcallen. >> hemos visto que en las Últimas dos semanas el número de personas se ha incrementado, lo que quiere decir que esa clase de proyecto no le estÁ dando los resultados. lo que estÁ dando resultados es que estamos viendo qu nuestra sociedad americanaesta deteriorando de valores. francisco: hoy en el centro, camiones siguen en constante movimiento. con la nueva medida que hoy firmÓ el presidente trump, no se sabe ahora cÓmo serÁ la dinámica. como este que se convirtiÓ de un walmart a un albergue de la noche a la maÑana. aunque acceso a la prensa y activistas ha sido restringido. los activistas tienen sus reservas sobre la medida anunciada por donald trump. >> e

was going to cover those under who's in brownsville texas outside a former wal-mart store which is now being used to house migrant children what's happening where you are. yeah this is really the front lines of the immigration debate and this is a former wal-mart that you see behind me huge huge facility and inside are about fifteen hundred kids all boys and out of those fifteen hundred we're told by a local lawmaker that toured it yesterday that about one hundred and ten are children that were separated and are currently separated from their parents or legal guardians because of this new zero tolerance policy that's been put in place the facility that you see behind me is a private facility run by a private organization a private company basically but it's over the auspices of the whole health and human services department essentially the u.s. government and business is the facility that's really overflowing with young migrant children right now these are children that cross the border with their parents children usually between ten to eighteen years old roughly in that range across t

what is your sense in brownsville of what is happening?now, i have not heard about people being reunited en masse. the lawyers and is loose coalition of people in texas that have been trying to find these people and interview them and give them representation. the case a reported on is the first one they know of where somebody was actually reunited. i'm not really sure what that means. it is certainly not something we hear about in brownsville, which is the thick of the situation. beenpeople who have separated have been in this area. amy: i want to talk about the director of the office of refugee resettlement, scott lloyd. is the agency tasked with caring for the thousands of children who have been forcefully taken -- forcibly taken from their parents. according to a political article headlined "meet the antiabortion trump appointee taking care separated kids," they write -- lloyd also served in the george w. bush administration as an attorney at hhs, health and human services, cowriting the no care on moral grounds. that is the piece of p

that's according to brownsville police. we got a statement from southwest key as a licensed care center we cannot restrain them, we are not a detention center. we talk to them and try to get them to stay. if they leave the property we call law enforcement. we also spoke with a source with direct knowledge of the incident. he said this 15-year-old boy ran out of this facility, search crews were called in, it is now believed that this boy, according to the source with direct knowledge, he's believed to be in mexico. there's a dna test underway, some discrepancy in it, he was in the process of being reunited with the man he called his father here in texas and now the boy is in mexico according to a source en route back to honduras. this does raise questions about the security of the children in these shelters. however a source tells me it's not unheard of that the children run away from the shelters but it's a small percentage of the cases. in the last fiscal years, according to this source, in all of the shelters which has th

if we go to gabriel elizondo he's at the border town of brownsville in texas tell us more about where you are and what's happening there. yeah we are here in the town of brownsville right on the border with mexico and we're outside of what's called casa pod drain that's the name of it's a private facility that used to be a giant wal-mart store that has been converted into depending on how you look at it either a jail or a shelter officially they're calling it a shelter but this a huge building here behind me is where the u.s. government has fifteen hundred young boys césar from migrants that have crossed the border and then have been taken in custody essential out of the fifteen hundred that are here in this facility behind me we're told by a local lawmaker that toured this facility and held a. talk to some of the representatives here that about one hundred and ten of them are young boys under age that were specifically separated from their parents or guardians as they crossed the border into the united states looking for a better life now these are young boys that crossed with their

>> reporter: just to set the scene where we are in brownsville, we're outside of the largest children immigrant detention facility child care facility in the country. we're waiting to that group of democratic lawmakers that have been touring the border all day long to make their next stop here. we are getting news of a tragic crash a few hours north of here involving a vehicle carrying 12 undocumented immigrants driven by the u.s. citizen smugglers. according to a sheriff's office there the vehicle dispute started noon local time involving border patrol and also one of his sheriff's deputies. that vehicle was giving chase 100 miles per hour eventually going off the road catching gravel and flipping killing at least five people inside. the local sheriff's office used this incident as a chance to highlight the border and security saying this is just another event that happens every single day near and around the border. some of you at home may be wondering what border patrol was doing involved in the situation. they have a large swath of jurisdiction, not just physical lithe border here

a year old in brownsville. weav verified the photo.k me through what is happening here. >> sure. it is a real photo supplied to me by the person who took it. it's a person i trust. it wasn't a random stranger at all. someone was in that shelter in brownsville and took that photo and gave me that photo. what you're seeing is a shelter in brownsville where there are about 80 children. many of them young girls. and many of them infants and toddlers. and here you have a little girl who is about 1 year old. you know, it is clean. you see the boot this on their shoes. there is that concern. but a lot, a lot of people that visit these shelters, they come away not talking about the conditions. they come away talking about the situation. and it's the situation. and the trump policy that is really sparked outrage. not as much the conditions. >> we just continue to ask the question, why ethically, politically, financially, why do this. i want to bring in cal perry, cal is outside the tent city in texas. cal, tell us what you see there. i've been

vamos una vez mÁs con maity que se encuentra en esta ocasiÓn en brownsville, texas.s al sur de estados unidos, que si pasamos el puente fronterizo quema que estÁn nominados de donde me encuentro ahorita podemos llegar a la ciudad de matamoros. quÉ nos hemos venido hasta acÁ? porque es en brownsville donde se ha dicho y se ha dado a conocer que estÁn varios de los albergues donde se encuentran varios de los niÑos que han sido separados de sus familias. justo en este momento estoy frente a casa el presidente, donde ha estado la noticia toda esta semana porque se supone que es aquÍ donde estÁn los menores, estamos hablando de menores de meses de nacidos, aÑos, los infantes o toddlers como se les dice en inglÉs. quiero comentar un poco que a raÍz de toda la noticia que ha salido se han descubierto varias irregularidades en estos albergues y es una de las grandes preguntas, inquietudes que tienen las personas, cuÁl es el trato que estÁn recibiendo los niÑos. en este centro que estÁ justamente esquer cometer que tiene capacidad para 304 personas o 304 niÑos, asÍ que es un

cnn's nick valencia is joining us from brownsville. nick, officials, i understand, are scrambling to house all these kids. >> reporter: and wolf, i'm standing in front of one of those facilities where officials are scrambling. this houses 80 children, some as young as 8 months old, half separated from their families because of this zero tolerance policy. all of them, of course, wondering if and when they'll be reunited with their parents. this former hospital in brownsville, texas, is one of three detention centers for infants and children. housing around 80 of them. ten years and younger without their parents. the three facilities with a fourth planned was first reported by the associated press, and have been rapidly repurposed to serve the needs of children, including some under 5 >> our understanding as of our visit on monday, is that the 40 children who were separated from their parents are here directly as a result of the zero tolerance policy. >> reporter: texas congressman, developa, a democrat, whose district includes brownsvil

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celcius and in brownsvilleutside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents. this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another. creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of a innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's on do brownsville texas. hours after signing that executive o

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our gabe gutierrez is in brownsville, texas, with that. >> people united! never be divided! >> reporter: tonight, the border battle is escalating. immigration activists rallying outside a tent city near el paso. >> don't detain these families. it's not right. it's immoral. >> reporter: now new questions about the security of migrant children. police in texas confirm a 15-year-old boy ran away from this massive shelter in brownsville yesterday. a source with direct knowledge says he was in the process of being reunited with a parent and ran away first and is now believed to be in mexico and enroute to honduras. the nonprofit says we are not a detention center. we talk to them and try to get them to stay. if they leave the property, we call law enforcement. the department of health and human services says it's still caring for more than 2,000 separated minors and many say the process of reuniting them with their adult caregivers will not be easy. how confusing is the process for them? >> completely confusing. they don't know the law, they don't speak the language, and they're

that facility was in brownsville, texas. the old walmart. 1,000 kids. the same senator, says that on that same trip he also saw kids being kept in cages at a border processing facility in mcallen, texaut an hour west of brownsville also right on the border. >> the first room had a series of cages that look like dog kennels in which people had recently arrived and been put in them, very crowded. they had space blankets so you had all these silver space blankets, no mattresses. people looking distressed and upset. a number of women holding children in their arms. adjacent to that a larger wearhouse with larger cages. the children had already been separated away from the parents. one cage had young boys being lined up for food, and they started with the smallest in front so you had a little toddler, i don't know, 4 or 5 years old, up through youth that are 16 or 17. >> so here is what we thk is ds and babies have never been ripped away from their moms and dads at the border. this is a new policy put in place by the trump administration. in the past obvious

that's what makes this shelter different from the detention center that we have been reporting on in brownsville, texas, where they are keeping these children. for them this is a place it is refuge for everything they have been through. we have been hearing stories o f family separation within detention. especially children being separated from their adult fathers. that's something that would have happened and happened during the obama administration. what is different now is that these people know that they are some of the lucky ones, they're actually here united and something very different of what we we are seeing with those folks across the street from here at the federal courthouse who are being prosecuted by crossing the border legillegall. i want to talk to a parent who suffered from this trauma because it was still so traumatic and just to see what this family is going through. >> you came with your boy and separated in detention for several days, how many is he? >> just five. >> reporter: how long were you separated separated for almost three days from his little boy. how did you feel w

but police in brownsville tell polo that a 15-year-old has now been entered into the missing children date -- database. they say he ran away from the facility, i want to read a statement that southwest key gave to cnn just a few moments ago. as a licensed child care center, if a child attempts to leave any of our facilities, we cannot restrain them, we are not a detention center. if they fry to leave, we talk to them and try to get them to stay. we called local law enforcement and continued to work with them. police did tell p orollo that t have been searching the lakes and the streams around the area and they have not found any sign of him. they have put him in that missing child's data base. i'm going to be going on a tour of a safacility tomorrow mornin. we're going to go inside a tent city you have heard them talk about to see what it is like inside one of these facilities. this will be the third one i have been on at this point, there was a protest here this morning, most of them have put pressure on the trump administration to speed up these reunifications and stop this process.

remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celcius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents. this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another. creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policies brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's on to brownsville texas let's bring in our white house corresponde