thbuildingas leasein march mvm, militarcontract.ow a w reporty reveal show mvm so operad a seco offi nearby,here a nghbor reportedeeing imgrant childrenathing tmselves throom sks. for mo we go tsan fransco for an update fr aura bodo, immiation rerter foreveal, from theenter fo investigive reporng. r latesttory is adlined, "immrant kidheld in cond phoenioffice seen bathing in sinks." her other recent report is headlined "immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims." give us the latest. aura: thanks so much for having me back. we just reported this first story out two weeks ago. back then, we knew that children, according to neighbors, were held overnight in this office, this unlicensed, unmarked office in central phoenix. at that time, ice told us its contractor, mvm, was not authorized to hold children overnight, that the contract only allows for same-day transport and that they are allowed to use that office for what ice calls a "waiting area." , theompany itself, mvm company with strong cia ties, a defense cont

mvm did have to acknowledge that that was the case.e know of two places that are unmarked, unlicensed, and neighbors sometimes know about the existence of them. mvm knows about the existence of them. these are not shelters. ey areot exact waiting areas. th are plas that he held childrenvernight a lot of themere chilen serated from tir paren. wre are the kid they fro these sarated children aura all othe kidsf iin ha been fr latin america theyostly arfrom cenal america,pecificay from guatemal and honras. somef the ki did appr to rive by themsves or wh a oup of frids,ut most the ildren 've bn able t idenfy that ve beenhrough there were serated fr their parents. i haveracked dneveral o the cldren, iave spok with several theirponsors, havepoken wi severalf thahas alson been rlly diffult nversatis to havwith the pares setimes. there a mothespecificly th i have en speakg wh, her son s only s years old when hwas takefrom her. n this oice builng, whicis againnot a shter, not licend to opete as such, its not auorized under it contrt to hol haden

meanwhile, a statement posted on "mvm's website june 18 reads -- "the current services mvm provides consist of transporting undocumented families and unaccompanied children to department of health and human services designated facilities -- we have not and currently do not operate shelters or any other type of housing for minors." talk more about what you , the amount of money they have gotten and if there contracted with ice. >> mvm, only first contacted them, they stated w what you jut read, we''re n not in the busins of p providing shelter or any kd of housing for children at all whatsoever. as it became more clear to them that we had a lot of evidence that many children were being detained for some period of time in this office building, they said, well, this is a temporary holding place. that is the term mvm has used to describe it, temporary holding place. ice did not respond immediately. i believe in a reporter who works on immigigration sort of takes that as a given. ice response when it was to respond and feels the need to respond. they eventually did respond. jennifer then telling

mvm had one version of what it was doing at the beginning. once they knew we had video and had a better idea of what was actually going on, i called it a temporary holding place. we can get into the smaemanticsf what's what, holding place, detention center, housing area, we can call it different things. what we know is children and including these toddlers, i mean, i've looked through the window myself and saw a box marked baby shampoo. i saw a booster seat on the floor. i've seen the videos. i personally have talked to the witnesses, the neighbors, and children were there for a while. whether they could walk out or no, i don't know. ice told us that it was a waiting area. waiting area as i've experienced is right in front of a train. not an in between place where i'm being detained before i then border a flight. >> we know the building confirmed the building is not allowed to be used for sleeping or cooking, but just for general office purposes, but we just showed thad video. this is a still photo, i believe taken by you guys, the reporter.

a spokesperson for mvm inc. told reveal the company had indeed held children in the building overnight, calling the staysys a "regrettable excxception" to the company's policycy to find hotel rooms instead. to see our full ininterview with aura bogado, who led the investigation, you can go to our website democracynow.org. a federal judge has questioned the trump administration's attention of mexican journalist milligan iteris soto and ordered in august during and whether immigration authorities violated his first amendment rights. gutierrez first sought asylum in the u.s. in 2008 after receiving death threats for reporting on alleged corruption in the mexican military. he has since won the national press club's freedom of the press award. speaking to democracy now! in a jailhouse interview last december, emilio said deportation would be a death sentence. >> well, if we are deported, that obviously implies debt. why? because ice, under the department of homeland security of the united states, by law, must give a

know that just a couple of hours ago reveal from the center of investigative reporting learned that mvmthe company that has small vacant office in mid town phoenix first told us that it didn't operate shelters, it didn't operate housing. it told us it had a temporary holding place for children. two hours ago they admitted to us that it did, indeed, sometimes hold children again in that office that several neighbors reported seeing. i eventually was able to garner databases and documents that corroborated what the neighbors were telling us and also what we were hearing within the immigrant community about what really was happening in that office building, and so there are so many parts to this story. the reunifications but also what happens in the in between time and where any immigrant is being held but particularly some of the -- some of these children in this particular facility we found that at least one girl was pregnant. one child ran away. he's still missing. again, this is a private contractor that has a generous contract with i.s.s. taxpayer contract money. according to that con

again, these are -- mvm is normally a defense contractor that manages facilities for folks in afghanistan. it is unbelievable. the fact that the trump administration is saying they should not be responsible, we should be demanding a government oversight hearing tomorrow. they need to bring in and basically get the record straight. every single agency head is singing a different tune because they have not been asked to testify before congress. we need to make sure that jeff sessions, that orr, the led of orr is being questioned because we need clear answers to make sure we can unify these children. there is one government contractor that has all of the information. it is the nonprofit institute. they are the government contractor that have managed every single entry of every single child that has been managed by orr. they cannot release the information by the public. in order to get the information, parents have to go to the institute to request this information. >> last night in montana the president went on attack of elizabeth warren in which he used the statement of calling her pocohont

three bathrooms that held children of tender age for over three weeks run by a government contractor of mvmfense contractor if manages facilities. it is unbelievable. the trump administration is saying they should not be responsible for this, it's not only on our watch, but we should be demanding a hearing tomorrow. they need to come in and get record straight. every single agency head is saying, see iing a different tu because they have not been asked to testify before congress. we need to make sure that jeff sessions, that orr lloyd is the head of orr, scott lloyd, is being questioned, that azor and sec naretary nielsen. there is one government contractor that has every single child that has been managed. >> last night in montana, the president went on an attack of elizabeth warren. he attacked her claiming to be of indian heritage. she responded. she said, hey, real donald trump, while you obsess over my genes, your administration is conducting dna tests on little kids because you ripped them from their mamas and you're too incompetent to reunite them. maybe you should focus on the life