and senator jeff merkley is also with us. jacob, tell us what you saw, and can you show us anything that you saw inside there? >> i think right around the same time we're coming on the air with you, we're getting some of the firsthand out photos from the department of human health and services. we were not allowed to bring our cameras inside.

senator jeff merkley. >> merkley. how do you spell it? m-e-r. >> yes. m-e-r-k-l-e-y. >> k-l-e-y. and your date of birth, sir? >> yes. october 24th. >> october. >> 24th. 1956. 1956. you said you're a u.s. senator. >> i'm a u.s. senator. >> senator merkley was in fact d to leave the property. and it seemed like he kind of figured that would be the case. but in so doing he found a way to show the public how the trump administration is going to great lengths to keep the public, to keep members of congress even from seeing exactly what they're doing here. ever since announcing this policy to take kids away from their parents, the president, it's interesting. instead of boasting about it like does about other things that people find outrageous, he's avoided talking about it at all. when he has talked about it, he has tried to blame democrats for this policy. we reached out to the department of health and human services today to ask about this facility that senator merkley tried to get into yesterday. they told us that no one arriving unannounce

jeff merkley is actually a u.s. senator.kids away from their parents, that's fine. senator merkley says he was granted access to a processing center over the weekend in mcallen, texas. he says in that facility he saw hundreds of kids who were being kept in cages. joining us next is somebody who has been fighting this new trump policy in the courts. stay with us. comes from the southern coast of ireland. i think it's why we've been doing this...forever. my dad has roots in the mountains of northern mexico. home to the strongest runners in the universe. my dad's ancestors were african bantu. i bet they told the most amazing stories. with twice the detail of other tests... i...ancestrydna can show dad where he's from-. and strengthen the bonds you share. it's only $69. give it to dad for father's day. it's only $69. ♪ ♪ legendary jockey vÍctor espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. ♪ ♪ so is his horse. ♪ ♪ when it comes to snacking. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that's why he uses the chase mobile app, to pay practically anyone, at any b

>> senator jeff merkley. u.s. senator jeff merkley. >> how do you spell? >> m-e-r-k-l-e-y. >> and your date of birth, sir? >> october. >> 24th, 1956. i'm a u.s. senator. and u.s. policy is involved right now with children. are you familiar with this policy? >> no. this is not something that we specifically deal with. but just so i can id it and advise my sergeant that you're here. >> the supervisor is here. if he wants us to leave the property, he can ask. but he hasn't asked yet. >> would you guys mind? >> have i now been asked to leave the property. so i'll comply with that. >> and senator jeff merkley, democrat of oregon, joins me now from washington, d.c. it's good to see you, senator. i want to be clear on. this you reached out to dhs through your staff through official channels to arrange some sort of visit before going down there, correct? >> well, i was seeking to get into three different places. one is a processing center run by dhs, the department of homeland security. and i was given permission to do that. the second was a respite center run by

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and senator jeff merkley is also with us.and can you show us anything that you saw inside there? >> i think right around the same time we're coming on the air with you, we're getting some of the firsthand out photos from the department of human health and services. we were not allowed to bring our cameras inside. that is because there are 1,500 boys almost, between the ages of 10 to 17 years old, that are going to sleep in there at night. at 9:00 the lights go out. it's essentially a prison or jail without cages or cells for these young boys. the majority of them who arrived in america as unaccompanied minors, crossed on their own.bu know are separated from their parents because of the trump administration zero tolerance policy. it's hard to wrap your head around but you go inside and there are hundreds of kids at a time in line for chow, doing activities. but eye all there because they were picked up by the border patrol and locked up. and they're not going to be able to get out of there for the next couple months. at least

. >> i want to thank senator merkley from oregon for inflation and my other colleagues are coming to the floor this afternoon. mr. president, like so many people across the country i have been deeply affected by what's happening on our southern border. children are being away from the parents, placed into mass detention, deprived of adequate legal counsel and isolated from everyone they've everr known. millions are rising up and sorrow and horrible over what's happening, and with good reason. the president of the united states and this administration are playing games with the lives of these innocent children. and when confronted they hide behind excuses that they are just following theaw law. this is just another lie from the president and and administration that hasns institutionalized lying to justify their unconscionable policies. there is nothing in the law that requires zero-tolerance policy approach of the border. it was a choice that donaldio trump and his administration made, and these children are suffering theth consequences. the president's actions are unnecessary and cru

joining us is senator merkley. we had you on monday just after you had tried to enter that detention center. you were blocked by officials even after you showed your credentials. were you ever able to get in and see what's happening inside there? >> no. i wasn't getting in. a supervisor came out to talk to me. when he said he came out he said he wasn't able to actually converse about anything going on inside the facility. so i didn't get it, nor did i get any information about what was going on with those children. >> do you still think 1,000 children are in there without their parents? >> well, we don't know the number for sure. that's the -- we have heard from others that's the guess. i wanted to ask how many children are here, how long have they been here? how many came unaccompanied from the united states? i didn't get any answers. >> the white house is very, seems to be he, very upset about you trying to expose this story. they put out a statement. and i just want to go through it line by line. there are so ma

merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, many members of the democratic caucus are coming down to the floor to speak to the abomination of a policy of separating children from their parents when people are seeking asylum in the united states of america, and the senator from minnesota is going to speak first, followed by the senator from hawaii, the senator from hawaii had and then the senator from washington followed by the senator from illinois. i yield to my colleague. ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i want to thank senator merkley, the senator from oregon, for his leadership, his calling atten to the tragedies that have been going on right on our border, and i rise today to join my colleagues to express my deep concern about the policy that was adopted by this administration to separate families at the border. what we have seen over the past several days and weeks and actua

i'm sorry, senator -- >> senator jeff merkley. >> reporter: and merkley not allowed in. >> the childreneing separated from their families, warehoused here. >> reporter: one of those families separated, profiled here last week. we brought you the story of jocelyn, who told us she was fleeing an abusive husband back in brazil. but when she crossed illegally into the u.s. with her 14-year-old son, james, back in august of last year, immigration officials took her child away. she says, "he looked at me, like, mom, help me, because i don't know where they're taking me." her son taken more than 1,000 miles away to a refugee center in chicago while she's seeking asylum. but today, after eight months of separation, mother and son back in each other's arms. the government finally reuniting them. the trump administration has recently separated around 700 children from their parents. it's part of an enforcement tactic under a hardline immigration policy. >> if you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. >> tom llamas continuing his reporting on thi

introduced by senator jeff merkley avoids most of these pitfalls. it is about as smartly and tightly crafted as a war authorization can be. limited to two countries, iraq and targetstan, must be published and not classified. and it turns things right side up. part, the president is required to come to congress to add new countries and new groups. even this resolution bypasses the debate we ought to be having about each of the core groups that are included in each , that is alaumf qaeda, the taliban, and isis. instead, john and i argue for a war powers reset. f, keeping ite aum separate from a debate on new war authorizations, and restoring america's default setting to peace. that asident decides group represents serious long-term threats to our national security, he will be free to make that case to the people's representatives and secure normal authorization for war in the way the constitution envisions. told, for example, in the quarter-kaine resolution, numerous terrorist group now pose a dangerous threat for the united states. the united states

the aumf introduced by senator jeff merkley avoid these pitfalls. it's about as tightly and smartly crafted as a war authorization can be. limited to two countries, iraq and afghanistan, and three groups of the countries and targets must be push liberiaed, can't be classified and it turns things right side up. for the most part the president is required to come to congress to add new countries and new groups. even so, even the merkley resolution bypasses the debate that we ought to be having about even the core groups that are included in each alternative aumf, that is al qaeda, the taliban and isis. we taught be debating why continuing war authorities are necessary for those groups. instead, john and i argue for a war powers reset. restoring -- sunsetting the aumf, keeping it separate from a debate about new war authorizations, and restoring america's default setting to peace, not war. the president decides that al shabaab or boko haram, for example, represent serious long term threats to our national security, he'll be free to make that case to th

as senator merkley said, they have a fair share of kids here from the separation policy.hat have been separated from their parents are at other facilities in this area. some of them that are run by this same organization, and they are under 10 years old, and what they told us was most of the kids who are being separated from their families are under 10 years old and most of them are this area. and make no mistake. that is a direct result, a direct result of the trump administration policy of separating parents from their kids because they have told us that they have seen a huge spike in the number of those kids over the last six weeks, so clearly it's a result of a policy decision, and what is so cynical about it, as senator merkley said, number up, it's supposed to try to send a deterrent effect which it doesn't when you're trying to flee violence and a threat to your life and your family's life, but in recent days, the president. united states is literally holding these kids separated from their parents as hostage to try to pass his version of some kind of immigration l

i also want to take this opportunity to give a strong thank you to senator merkley. when i heard what happened to him, i felt extremely empowered and that led to me deciding to stand up. the main problem with these detention centers is their lack of transparency, which allows them to basically turn it into a prison. , i want to get your reaction to southwest key's spokeswoman cindy casares, who responded to concerns about whether the non-profit is prprepared to housuse children o have been separated from their parents at the border and are coping with trauma.

jeff merkley / he sign reads welcome to casa padre- but after senator jeff jeff merkley was turned awayand other lawmakers returned for an official toursen. jeff merkley / oregon (d) they went from 500 kids here in april to almost 1500 here now. theres no place to put them, theyre talking about putting a tent city for children near el paso. as lawmakers visited various detention centers... people gathered to protest the separation of families.in the past many immigrants were simply deported with their kids. some call that policy catch and release.the trump administrations new zero tolerance policy means all adults are charged and their kids are separated from them when the parents head to court. the administration says its necessary to discourage people from trafficking drugs and committing heinous crimes manuel padilla / rgv border patrol chiefthere has to be a consequence for entering the country illegally.but lawmakers say the practice of separating from their families causes irreperable harm and trauma.rep. sheila jackson lee / texas (d)my fear is that there may be loss of life, and

this is we should point out the same facility senator jeff merkley was turned away from. give us a sense of the situation inside what you witnessed. >> reporter: as you said it is almost at capacity. there are 1,460 kids that slept in there last night. capacity is 1,497. there have never been more kids inside this former wal-mart since it opened doors in march of 2017 specifically because of the trump administration's policy. until the policy was announced most kids came without parents. now that the administration is trying to charge every undocumented immigrant that crosses into the country illegally, those numbers are sky rocketing. i saw some footage that was

merkley or hogan lying? let's talk about decency. >> i think the senator is shedding light on an important issue. the administration's policy is overcrowding the system. and so they're intentionally separating families that's now overcrowding border patrol stations which in tune are going to overcrowd the rest of the system. we are the ones jamming the system, because the attorney general announced this new policy. so those facilities are intended to match those children with their parents. we're the ones taking two-year-olds from their parents, and so that's what needs to stop on the front end so that system is not overcrowded. >> and nick, it doesn't seem that jeff merkley is lying about this. he went there and tried to get in and saw what he saw. >> yeah. i think the senator is telling the truth, and the fact that he was not allowed in suggested they have something to hide. but my own fact check would be that the administration, that there's a series of things that are absolutely false here. one is the no

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you heard jeff merkley offer criticism of the particulars of that bill.cornyn said in a speech on the senate floor he intended to do the same thing given beta o'rourke took the lead on there issue. also in a letter, house speaker joe strauss asked the president move immediately to rescind the policy of separating immigrant families and then made it clear this is not a binary choice between ramp in crime and tearing families apart. tanya chavez is a strategist with immigration rights group and democratic state representative terry carnales. what are your concerns your organization has what the effects of this policy are. >> one of the fears that we have is that we have dealt with the issue of immigration for many years and families who have resided here for many years are now wondering are we next. right? and. >> this has cast a pall over the community. >> exactly. now we're starting to get some calls into our office and how to reunite the children with their mariners. our biggest concern is that when children get routed through the system and they're read

. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they descend on theder detention centers to try and find some answers. >>> now, every president, every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. the reagan administration's amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some nservatives pause today. the bush administration had its faults. the administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. but at the moment, the current administration is separating families from their children at our bor with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. so far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, what's missing from this story are a flood of images of these young children. it was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. so far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. stop and look at her for just a moment. and remember that there are thousands -- thousands of other fac

senator jeff merkley has just toured a facility.ar what he has to say. >> and on the parents,hen it's totally unnecessary when they're wading for their hearing. we're going to spend two minutes apiece, and if we keep to that time schedule, we can take a couple comments afterwards. i'm going to turn it over to senator chris van hollen, and he'll pass it on to the members of the house. >> thank you, senator merkley, for bringing this together. we just came from a processing center. we were able to talk to a mom. her daughter had been separated from her in that processing center. sheer charged with illegal entry. under the new policy, they will deliberately separate moms and dads from their sons and daughters. this is a choi that the trump administration that is made. it is inhumane, it is cruel and we are calling on president trump, who has total control over this decision today on father's day, to end the policy and allow these families to eunite. i'm pleased to it ove to shielda -- sorry, either one of you. >> thank you all for bei

>> senator jeff merkley.. >> and your date of birtrth? >> november 24, 1956. >> and you said you are a senator? >> a u.s. senator. are you familiar with this policy? >> this is not something that we specifically deal with. >> we won't takeke up their time anymore b but i think it is important for you to be the children n who were previously kept with their families under a newew policy just implemented by the attorney generalal are being separated d from their families and warehouse here. -- warehoused here. amy: thatt was senator jeff merkley, unable to get into that walmart. well for more we go now to the epicenter of this zero tolerance crackdown. the rio grande valley in south texas is where more than half of all migrant families and children have been apprehended by border patrol agents since mid-may. we begin in mcallen, where democracy now! correspondent renee feltz went this past weekend to spepeak with residents who are taking action in response to the widely condemned practice of separating famililies. among those she met with w

>> woodruff: senator jeff merkley of oregon, just back fr the border with xico. we thank you. >> you're welcome. thank you,udy. >> woodruff: the president is i engaging agaa bitter cultural battle with n.f.l. players over the national anthem, questions of respect for it and the right of players to protest. as amna nawaz reports, this time the stakes involved a trip from the super bowl champion philadelphia eagles to meet the president, and a decision by mr. trump uninvited the team after many players opted out of seeing him. >> nawaz: these are some of the superbowl ampion philadelphia eagles the president was planning to meet at the white house today. a meeting that's become almost as much a tradition, as the victory parade itself. but president trump cancelled that meeting saying too many players opted out at the last minute, and that they disagreede with his inse on standing during the national anthem. du fact, none of the eagles players took a kneng the anthem last season. today, the white house hosted what they called "a celebration of america" instead. flan

merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, many members of the democratic many members of the democratic >> mr. president many members of the democratic caucus are coming to the floor to speak to the abomination of the policy of separation children from their parents as people are seeking asylum in the united states of america.en the senator from hawaii will see and then senator from washington then illinois and i yield to my colleagues. >> mr. president this senator from minnesota. >> thank you leadership and calling attention to the tragedy going on on the border advice today to join my colleagues to express my deep concern about the policy adopted by this administration to separate families that the board will but we have seen over the last few months is unacceptable and now the president has recognized publicly we should not be taking children from their parents, this should not be happening in our country. according to the department of

i also want to take this opportunity to give a strong thank you to senator merkley.hen i heard what happened to him, i felt extremely empowered and that led to me deciding to stand up. the main problem with these detention centers is their lack of transparency, which allows them to basically turn it into a prison. , i want to get your reaction to southwest key's spokeswoman cindy casares, who responded to concerns about whether the non-profit is prprepared to housuse children o have been separated from their parents at the border and are coping with trauma. she said -- "our staff have great expertise in dealing with this population. we have very high professional development standards. we cannot operate if we do not have the legally mandated number of staff required. for the last 20 years we hire staff that have a child care or social work background to be prepared to support the developmental and emotional needs of all children who arrive to our facility." antar davidson, is that your assessment? f facility, not the case. i can personally -- i was personally asked b

i'm senator jeff merkley from congress. my team contacted this facility and asked for permission for me to come and see what is going on inside with these children. >> we don't have any -- i'm going to have to ask you to step away. >> senator jeff merkley joins us now on the phone from texas. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. good to be with you. >> good to have you. tell us what happened. did you try to enter that facility yesterday and what exactly did they tell you for banning your access? >> yes, i did try to enter the facility yesterday. this is following up on president trump's new policy of removing children from their parents when the families are seeking asylum. these are families that have gone through traumatic experiences abroad and we've always treated such families very graciously as they waited adjudication of their case. now they're being treated in an enormously cruel fashion, a fashion that rips children out of the arms of their parents, sends them off to places unknown while the parents are

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the tour came after senator jeff merkley was turned away when he tried to visit the facility earlier this month. merkley's visit was motivated by his and other people's concerns about the detention of undocumented minors. some kids crossed into the u-s unaccompanied, and others were separated from their families. merkley linked his concerns to "zero-tolerance" border policies calling for taking away children and prosecuting parents who cross the border with them illegally. it was cooler around the bay area today but still warm in the valleys. highs there were still in the 80s but 5 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. on the satellite image you can see low presure moving closer to the bay area. it will conitinue to deepen and usher in more fog and cooler weather into the weekend. it will be partly cloudy tomorrow with patchy coastal fog. highs will be in the 70s to low 80s inland with cooler 50s and 60s at the coast. more clouds and breezy weather will bring even cooler weather into the weekend. warmer weather is expected toward the middle of next week. (grant) san (grant) (grant) sa

jeff merkley rand paul elizabeth warren and ron wyden so you know a lot of democrats obviously but at the end of the day it's like you could put legislation. and should have been put legislation in place to curtail this kind of spending or say you know what like we do with other things that if you are going to have this in the budget every year must have a cost of living pay raise if you're making amends are you don't pay your soldiers the same amount of money when they're sitting at home as when they're getting shot at right and then you don't come back and go well we can't quiet for the money to fix the v.a. we can't find someone to fix the v.a. that's exactly right there's a grid and it's and it's when you see these like massive numbers and then your mind merely goes like will who are the people that say this is ok who are the people that like a line up and say hey let's spend more money on nuclear weapons let's do this i mean just a name a few of them look a lot of these are part of the so-called you know resistance which also doesn't make sense to me because why would you then if

senator jeff merkley trying to get inside this very center last week. >> can you please give me a tour of it? >> a tour? >> reporter: but denied entry. >> what is your name again, sir? i'm sorry, senator? >> senator jeff merkley. >> reporter: and tonight attorney general jeff sessions invoking the bible in defense of the administration's hard line immigration policy. >> you know that the lord told nehemiah that when he got to come back home to jerusalem, to build a wall. that's the first thing he told him to do. it wasn't to keep people in, it was to keep bad people out. >> reporter: this mother telling us "what is happening is inhumane." her 5-year-old daughter taken from her for days after she illegally crossed the border. she now worries the little girl may have psychological trauma. >> tom llamas with us live from houston. tom, you said the government is running out of space with these facilities. what's the plan moving forward? where will they put the children? >> there are more than 100 facilities across the u.s. they're reaching capacity. they'll have to open emergency and tempo

be that as it may, until he does that, senator merkley, what are you going to do about this?ow will you help fix this problem? >> well, the biggest thing is to shine a spotlight. we have seen the evangelical community weighing in, the southern baptist community starting to weigh in. we are starting to tear away some of the fallacies the station is conveying to the american people. they said we are just trying to get people to enter at the port of entry. what we see is it is essentially shut down for people seeking asylum. four border guards were at the port of entry stopping people who did not have papers, those who are seeking asylum. we heard there have been requests from the u.s. to the mexican side to not even allow them to the bridge to begin with. that part we weren't able to check out. they can seek sa sigh hrupl. the families are arriving. they were an impossible situation. to remain on the mexican side, subject to gang attacks because they are so vulnerable, the administration says, see, they're breaking the law, we're putting them in handcuffs, we're throwing them i

we heard senator merkley tell it as well. now look at the crowd that is behind us now. they know that they are garnering some sort of momentum and that especially on a day like father's day, they're not going to let this go. in listens to the press confer from the six lawyers, i can tell you, one of the biggest takeaways for me, just in fact talking to asylum seekers here at the border as well is how hard, according to these lawmakers this administration is making it for asylum seekers to turn it into ports of entry they said that they're seeing people on the mexican side of the border, waiting out for six, seven, eight days with their young children, in the 100-degree heat. because of according to the lawmakers, they're forcing these people to cross the border instead of turn themselves legally at ports of entry, which is their international right as asylum seekers. they said you willy that's what this administration wants. >> incredible reporting there. thank you so much, mariana. >>> for more on what's happening to these families:joined lee the deputy director of the

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jeff merkley rand paul elizabeth warren and ron wyatt so you know a lot of democrats obviously but at the end of the day it's like you can put legislation. and should have been put legislation in place to curtail this kind of spending or say you know what like we do with other things that if you are going to have this in the budget every year must have a cost of living pay raise if you're making amends are you don't pay your soldiers the same amount of money when they're sitting at home as when they're getting shot at right and then you don't come back and go well we can't quite find the money to fix the v.a. well we can't find someone to fix the v.a. that's exactly right that's exactly it it is and it's when you see these like massive numbers and then your mind immediately goes like will who are the people that say this is ok who are the people that like a line up and say hey let's spend more money on nuclear weapons let's do this i mean just a name a few of them look a lot of these are part of the so-called you know resistance which also doesn't make sense to me because why would yo

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ofes senator jeff merkley oregon. >> tber bert f kenny, whose life was brutally, savagely cut short 50 years ago. robert kennedy was a presidential candidate. a u.s. senator, a member of this chamber. an attorney general. and naval officerfaa n, a hband, a brother. but more than all of that, he was acon of hope amidst turbulent and difficult times in our nation. he was an insti generations of americans. speaking at his younger brother's funeral, our former colleague senator ted kennedy said that robert kennedy "need ine idol o beyond what he was life." he saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. toas inspired by his efforts write wrong and heal suffering and stop war. inspired enoughhat wh i became a u.s. senator and was assigned in office, they happened to be the former office kennedy, i proudly pointed that out to visitors. here in my office once sat the great robert kennedy who did see wrong and trd to right itnd and try to stop it. in may 1968, i was in sixth grade. i was an 11-year-old out in oregon, and bobby kennedy, as we affectionately referred to him,

merkley: thank you it. i thank my colleague for letting us come down to talk about this trumped-up health care in america. prices are going up specifically because of the policy of president trump and his team. the sabotage is under full steam. ongbut l before the sabotage occurred, we had 2017 here on the floor of the senate five different versions of trying to wipe out health care for american citizens. they varied in range from wiping out health care for 22 million to wiping out health care to 30 million men's. how is it in a we the people republic that people could come down here and vote to wipe out health care for millions of people across this country? quite simply, we have a team in power that believes in poweul and the rich and they have health care, so they don't care autess. but we should be here fighting for the ordinary citizen in america. what's more important to peace of mind than the knowledge that if your loved one gets sick or injured, they'll get the health care they need and you won't go

what is your name again. >> senator jeff merkley, u.s. senator jeff merkley.now been asked to leave the property. so i'll comply with that.>> two jeff americacally tried to get a tour of a detention center at an abandoned walmart that houses children. he was not allowed inside. no one would grant him an was asked, jacob sober rof ce finally did get a tour. jacob, you were with a few other journalists let into the facility. what did you see? >> you know, chris, i have been inside federal a federal prison before, i've been inside several county jails. this place is called a shelter effectively these kids are incourse rated. there are over 1400 of them that are spending not weeks, months t they're not actually literally in canes in or in cells but i kid you not, one of the first things an employee said to me is when we walked inside, can you try to smile at these kids because it's weird to see people from the outside. they feel like animals locked up in cages being looked at. it was an extraordinary thing to see. >> talk me through what's it look like. it's a wal

merkley. >>> breaking news, the audio obtained by propublica from inside a u.s.order facility, you will hear it in full. children crying for their parents. one 6-year-old girl pleading for someone to call her aunt. listen. [ speaking foreign language ] [ crying ]. >> cnn has not been able to independently verify the source of that tape, but you heard in full what we have tonight. and i want to go now to the democratic senator from oregon, jeff merkley, who's been speaking out. he's been down to the border and seen the detention facility first hand. senator, you saw obviously what was happening in one detention center and now this audio is getting a lot of attention tonight. the homeland security secretary was asked about it today, it was played in the background of the entire briefing. does what we just heard reflect what you witnessed and saw? >> well, what i saw at the processing center were children who had been assembled into a 30 by 30 chain link fence space who had been, many of whom had been separated from their parents within the previous hours or previou

the sign reads welcome to casa padre- but after senator jeff jeff merkley was turned away the warehouse that now houses undocumented immigrant children has been the center of a hot debateon fatehrs day senator merkley and other lawmakers returned for an official toursot they went from 500 kids here in april to almost 1500 here now. theres no place to put them, theyre talking about putting a tent city for children near and paso.as lawmakers visited various detention centers... people gathered to protest the separation of families.in the past many immigrants were simply deported with their kids. some call that policy catch and release.the trump administrations new zero tolerance policy means all adults are charged and their kids are separated from them when the parents head to court. the administration says its necessary to discourage people from trafficking drugs and committing heinous crimes manuel padilla / rgv border patrol chiefthere has to be a consequence for entering the country illegally.but lawmakers say the practice of separating from their families causes irreperable harm and