condemn the trump administration state policy of separating families at the border, we're joined by renee feltz, democracy now! correspondent and producer who has long reported on the criminalalization o of the busis

producer renee feltz followed them as they dropped off donations sunday at one of the busiest ports ofntry in the rio grande valy.y. >> were on the bridge that connects mexico to t u.s. we a are right in the ddddle poinint the bridge, right overhe river behind me are three border patr agents, asking for individuals' documentation. they are not scanning emem anything. they are just checkingoo e that tyy havthee documents. border patrol agents do tt rmalallytand a athat int. i have lived in the s.s. st o of life.e. i first heard about the indiduals stndeded o susuay. the main rson is i just saw it, imagine if i were there, standing on a bridge, day dd night with very few resources, just whatever i brghght on me. on wednesday, we were gettg g readto headutut. we had been on the bdgdge for r anour anana half distbuting what some peop m might need. werere out toto head t and one of the ladss who , go talkut told us to ttt woman tt is standing she was about six yards ay fromhe main ououp of asylum-seekers. she was stanng there with a little girl. she looked sad and confused and lost. we aske

correspondent renee feltz and producer, long reported on the criminalization of immigrants,ily dentionand the business of detention. this is democracy now! when we come back, we talk about yemen. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. returned to yemen where there are reports that hundreds of fighters have been killed and more than e c fled their homes since the u.s.-backed coalition led by saududi arabia and the united ab emirates has launched an all-out ofnsive against the key port city of hodeidah last week. early this morning, coalition aircraft bombarded hodeidah's main airport, wounding dozens and preventing aid organizations from reaching parts of the city. this is a father who was displaced from hodeidah. people were stuck and could not leave. they told us that some humanitarian organizizations are going to send buses, but then they said no buses could come in or out so we started walking on foot during our children, sitting once in a while for rest while the apaches hohovered aboe us. we were scar

in fact, you're going to centers -- a reporter renee feltz was going to these centers w where fafamilies were held for overa year. >> right, because the obama administration did not want to comply with that legal settlement, either. it took committed advocacy by plaintiff's lawyers for the floresis children children and many others to hold the obama to that short-term 20 day limit. when the obama administration resisted to did family detention ter eradicating it, eradicated inin 2009, reads to to didnn 14, , th attememed to hold people iefinitel amy: befe we go your g rertn iceetention and the terrib conditis when it comes access to mecal care and pele dying in ic detentn, i wanto go ba to bbie natn. th woman w callserself delia came herbecausef dostic vlence. will ta about tt in a moment bause it oks like st lost debbie. we're going to go back to clara long to talk about the new report that she has just come out with. clara long is a senior researcher at human rights watch, code red. that's the name of an expxplosie human rights watch report released this week that exposes dangerously s