Theres been a lot of questions about the girls but what about the babies. The Trump Administration has decided to call them tender age children. The crisis here in our southern border is growing everyday and it becomes more grim and more difficult to bear everyday. Nbc news and msnbc have sent dozens of correspondents to try to capture this story, to cover this story and we have been doing it from one end of the border to the other, we have had people in san diego all the way across the border to right here where i am tonight in brownsville, texas, on the east end of our southern border. We also have correspondents in Central America tracking this story, tracking the story of how these immigrants are coming north, including the story of what are now thousands of imMigrant Children being held in some of these mysterious Detention Centers. One of them is right behind me. Its one of the largest ones, the largest one for children. Some of these Detention Centers are in unknown locations. Im right here in front of what theyve now called casa padre, the largest Detention Center site of its kind in the nation. This is one of the rare facilities that reporters have been allowed to enter. But they have not been allowed to take photographs or speak to any of the children in custody inside this building behind me. The only photographs we have of the inside of this building are governmentissued and government approved photographs, the photographs of what the government and only the government wants us to see. With all of this pressure mounting on this story, the president s held an emergency meeting tonight on capitol hill with house republicans. President trumps public position on the crisis is that he will stop arresting children and stop arresting babies and separating them from their parents only if republicans and democrats in Congress Vote to pay for the trump wall on the mexican border. In other words, the president is arresting children and arresting arresting children and arresting babies because mexico refused to pay for his wall. One question that has continued to worry many observers of this crisis and continues to worry us tonight with this new reporting is where are the girls . Where are the babies . Theres been a lot of focus this week on where are the girls and yesterday the secretary of Homeland Security in charge of implementing this policy did not know how to answer the simple question where are the girls . Reporter where are the girls . Where are the young toddlers . I dont know. Im not familiar with those particular images so i have to reporter you dont know where they are . Do you know where the girls are . Do you know where the young toddlers are . We have children in dhs care both but after 72 hours theyre transferred to hhs so i dont know what pictures youre referencing but id have to refer you to hhs. I got off the plane here in brownsville this morning with one mission above all others which was to find the girls and i was told about one of the facilities that has girls in custody in brownsville, it is a place where the secretary of Homeland Security or the first lady or the president can go tomorrow and see how the girls are being treated and listen to the girls stories, the stories of how they got here. I couldnt do that today. The best that i could do was standout side and look at it and now show it to you. Everyone has been asking where are the girls . Where are the girls . Were told there are girls in this facility. This is casa president e. There are also infant babies here, people who have been at this facility told us they have seen diapers and this is a new development for this facility. This was teenage girls only until recently but now that theres the zerotolerance policy and theres been a big rush of babies coming into the system and younger girls this is where some of them are. We dont know how many. It is a windowless facility as far as weve been able to see it from this angle. But this is the one place we know that is housing girls, housing teenaged girls and housing infant babies and younger girls so we have found the girls but this is as close as we can get. Trump Administration Says that it is housing some children in what they want to call a tent city that was built last week tornillo, texas. Thats about 800 miles northwest of brownsville where i am tonight and about an hour south of el paso. Nbcs cal perry joins us life now from tornillo, texas. Cal, what have you discovered there . Lawrence, about a quarter of a mile behind me is the tent city. We have just some aerial photos to go on about what it looks like, 18 to 20 tents fitting ten unaccompanied minors in each tent at a time. We heard from a local congressman here, his district, he said theyre possibly expanding out to 4,000 bed. Lawrence, we cant get inside, we go to the road, we are escorted back by the border security. We saw vans leaving. We assume that was taking unaccompanied minors to dinner. By way of reporting, lawrence, i landed here recently as you did, i came from london, i cover government strife around the world. Its incredibly uncomfortable saying to you and the country on camera the American Government is not letting us inside these facilities. The American Government is not showing us inside these facilities. The American Government is offering Jacob Soboroff photos from two years ago. Im used to saying these things in countries overseas. The thing that has always and this is by way of reporting the thing that has made america different than countries around the world is the fighting of individual liberties and its allies and in the past year that has gone away. The view from here is limited. We cant get in, we will certainly try. Cal perry in tornillo, texas. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We are joined here in brownsville, texas, by ephraim olivares, the director of racial and justice program. Also, the executive director for the refugee and immigrant center for education and Legal Services and ophelia de los santos, a retired attorney working for the Catholic Diocese of brownsville as director of Jail Ministry and immigration services. Ophelia that place theyre calling casa president e, youve told me theres evidence there are infant babies there because theres evidence of diapers going in and coming out of the facility. Correct. How long have we nobody that . Thats just been within the last month. After i talked to you, i made another call to a source that we have and there are 11 babies in casa president e. 11 babies. You believe there are young girls . Yes, there are, because at one time it was all young girls, 15, 16, 17yearold. I know that for a fact and some have been moved to make room for toddlers and babies coming in. And so now theres a range of girls in age from infant babies up to teenagers. Diapered babies. And is that the only facility we know about that has girls . No, the earlier facility, colmes, esperanza colmes, we went out there and did an interview with one of our volunteers, that has babies also. And what do you think, if the first lady came down here tomorrow to see how the babies and little girls were being treated, what do you think she would discover . Im not sure. But she cant get in. Well, i think if the first lady shows up she will get in. You cant get in, we cant get in. It seems like no one lower ranking than the president or the first lady can get in. Well, i would hope she would find them in good health. This reaction they are talking about three facilities for what sounds like infant babies and toddlers. Its mind blowing and the insidious part of this process requires one to take a step back and look not just at the facilities where these children are being held, many people can walk in and see bright bedspreads, an arts and crafts room and think this is fine but what is behind those walls is a largescale immigration deportation process that is being undertaken against each and every individual one of those children. They are being thrown into Immigration Court, in many cases with no attorney, and theyre asked to plead their cases. We have gone to just to stop there for a second so the audience understands the scene were talking about. Youre talking about a fiveyearold being in one of these judicial proceedings being asked to represent and answer for himself or herself. Thats exactly right. I myself have sat in court and seen children with their little feet dangling from the respondents chair, not touching the for. Little glitter shoes and a dress and a judge leaning over his bench in order to see her so as to speak with her. All they can discuss is what is your name . Thats a pretty dress. But nevertheless there is a lotz of money being spent by our government in the sole design of deporting each and every one of these children. Do these judges think these are real factfinding procedures when theyve got a fouryearold sitting in front of them without an attorney . Well, i dont have to tell you what i think. I know that one immigration judge testified he believed that toddlers as young as three or four years old who received these no your rights presentations from groups like raices in these shelters are perfectly aware and equipped to follow along in the proceedings. Its absurd. It would be laughable if it wasnt so sad. And ephraim, the president and his administration are incysting now that what theyre doing now, what theyve only started in late april and may, they were never doing it before but they just started doing it, theyre insisting this is the law and they have no choice. They dont explain why they had a choice before april and dont have a choice now but because theyre saying they dont have a choice, they are now talking about building, opening new facilities for infant babies because they have never had to deal with this number of infant babies before because this is a new policy. Its outrageous in 2018 in america were talking about building internment camps. And when they came claiming the law requires family separation, they dont say what law requires it because there is no law. Its a zero tolerance policy that the executive branch, the attorney general could rescind today with the stroke of a pen. What do you think we should call these places . Ive been in jails, ive been in prisons and people want to use a phrase like Detention Center. Theres a kind of it seems as though the language is being cleansed. When you have cages and locks and the conditions that im seeing in here these are what would be considered jails in any other setting. What would you call them . I am Jail Ministry for diocese of brownsville and ive been assigned to minister to these children. What do you think the right term is . I think theyre jails. If youre locked in a box and you cant get out youre in jail. Anybody in that situation would feel that way. Now when were seeing these tent facilities, now were talking about something that is different from jail because it is a lower le commodeus for a jail. Theres no air conditioning or things that some jails have so these things start to look like camps, the kind of camps that live in infamy in our history. Theyre internment camps. We saw the images of those tents in tornillo, those are internment camps in tornillo. And ofilia, the knowledge that the president of the United States could stop all of this tomorrow, is that something that everyone involved in this struggle understands . Is that something that the people, the adults being held under these conditions understand . Absolutely. I heard an interview earlier today on this very channel where the lady says she would ask mr. Trump to soften his heart to start thinking more humanely, that they are human beings so they understand where its coming from and who the stop it. Jonathan, the president is getting advice from people who have never been to these places, they are the ones with the strongest voices about how to handle this, if you could have a few seconds with the president , what would you tell him . I would challenge any person to step up and step in to one of these facilities. Step into court and if you dare, try to represent one of these children, one of these families in these cases. It wont just change your mind, it will change your life to undergo that experience. We work with many pro bonos and often times those attorneys are conservative republicans who seek to engage in this work and many times these are some of the people whose minds are the most blown by these experiences because they see sometimes the first time in their lives a government that simply doesnt make sense, that appears to be put in cruelty above justice for the mere sake of sending a message, a message of deterrence and a message of diswelcome, not just to these refugees but to all immigrants, all people of color, all minorities living in this country. Everyone understands this message. Its not a dog whistle, its a blow morn. What does it feel like for you people working on these issues who have been working on this from year in and year out to now have the countrys attention that the border hasnt had before. Well, its good we are having this visit so people interested in making the policy decisions can see what is really happening, the congressmen, the senators who were here this week and last week. Its good to have the Decision Makers here so they can see it for themplss and not just be reading about it. But hearing the stories from the parents who have been separated from their children is particularly heart wrenching. Having to stop the interview halfway through because a mom cannot stop crying thinking of the prospect of perhaps not seeing her fiveyearold daughter again. It does seem like what is happening here is finally reaching into the parts of americans all over the country. Efran efren olivares, jonathan ryan, thank you. As rachel tried to report twice at the beginning of the hour, weve just learned new information from the Associated Press that the United States government is housing hundreds of babies and toddlers in three facilities somewhere in south texas. Could be somewhere around where we are tonight. Joining us from south texas is msnbcs stephanie ruhle. Stephanie, what more do we know about this report. Lawrence, the fact that were even calling these Detention Centers tender age centers this is stunning. You and i came down here to look at this migrant crisis and when youre in these parts, it feels more like a migrant issue, we need to address the border. But whats happening . To create these centers for babies, for toddlers, for kids under the age of five, this is not about politics, this is not about policy, lawrence, its about humanity. President trump likes to call himself a patriot. To be a patriot is someone who vigorously fighting and defends their country. This happening right now, if youre a patriot you need to stand up and fight for the name of america because American Values and exceptionalism, we are the luckiest that were born in the land of the free and the home of the brave and we take Asylum Seekers think about those moms. Lawrence, youre a parent and so am i, i have a fiveyearold daughter at home and when i left yesterday i thought, man im not going to see her for two days. Think about those moms who travel the most treacherous path to asylum from honduras, from el salvador, from guatemala and they make their way here knowing it is going to be such a Difficult Run and then the thought, explained to me the policy, who does it serve to rib these babies from their mothers arms. I cant imagine as a mother something worse. If this is not an assault on humanity, i ask you, Melania Trump, ivanka trump, ivanka trump loves to instagram beautiful photos of she and her children. Besides the pictures she posts and how she shes an advocate for women, a devoted mother, when you become a mother, you become a sister to all other mothers. Those children are ours. And unless ivanka is going to stand up and do something, she no longer deserves the right to say she stands with us because this is a moment we must stand together as a nation, as parents, as humans with souls. Stephanie, there are moments when the news, the curve of the news or what the country is paying attention to becomes what i might call a first lady moment. A moment for the first lady to step forward and take a roll in what the nation is going through. This certainly would be one of those for any of the previous first ladies, none of the previous first ladies ever had to deal with this because this policy has never been used before. This is uniquely a donald trump policy. But what would it mean to the future of this policy if the first lady of the United States got on a plane and got down here and it would be easier for her to do than it was for you to do to get down here to go into this facility behind me and see the children in there but more importantly i think for her to visit one of the secret facilities that is housing the girls and the now ultra secret facilities that are housing the babies, the babies that she now knows are being held in custody by her husband. Can you imagine what its like for those little children . What i dont understand more than anything is why . Who does it serve . What forgotten americans are going to have a better opportunity and a better life because we are seeing babies taken away from their mothers who are not hardened criminals. Theyre mothers who are maybe going to fill some of those 6,000 jobs we have here in this country that were looking for people for. I simply dont understand this and i can hope that as terrible and scary a moment as this is, let this be a moment of opportunity whether its first lady Melania Trump, whether its first daughter ivanka trump or all the former president s or first ladies to come together and say we as a nation are better than this. This is a chance, lawrence, for us to say whats happening right now cannot be a breaking point. It must be an opportunity or we must come together and rise up. If we dont do this in the name of children, babies then who are we as a nation, lawrence . It seems like this is a unique opportunity for our first immigrant first lady. This is a unique opportunity and a unique obligation for our first immigrant first lady to come down here, to pick up one of these children, to pick up one of these untouchable babies who no one else is allowed to touch and see what the power of her hug immigrant to immigrant could do for one of those children and what it could mean to this story and what it could mean to her husbands understanding of what he has done here. And the thing is, lawrence, we dont know Melania Trump very well but if theres one thing that i could say that i observe, shes clearly a very devoted mother. Everything you see she does is centered around their son baron. Shes very protective of him. Before she was first lady, i have a 12yearold son and baron is 12 so before they were in this spotlight i used to see her around in new york and i saw her with him all the time and this is a moment right behind me where this Detention Center is, we cant even see the kids inside. Two hours ago there was an unbelievable rainbow and my team and i were in the car and we said you know who doesnt get to see it . The kids inside. We have to fight for the future of these children. Theyre not criminals. They deserve an opportunity, they deserve to be loved and cared about because that is what patriots and great americans do and just good people. Stephanie ruhle, thank you for sharing your feelings about this tonight. Were joined in our discussion by john sandweg, the former acting director of i. C. E. Under president obama. Also with us professor victoria di Francesco Soto of the lbj school of Public Affairs in el paso, texas. Can you tell us what the previous policy was in cases of these infant babies that the new administration is now planning to create new facilities for . It certainly wasnt take them away from their mothers. This is shocking to me. Border patrol and i. C. E. Are proud Law Enforcement agencies that are good at getting bad guys. Thats what the agents signed up for and this president has them ripping babies out of mothers arms. That doesnt make any sense to me. But our policy was keep Families Together. Keep Families Together at almost all costs because once you separate those families you run the serious risk that they never see each other again. Tell us about what is the likelihood of them seeing each other again and what happens, what are the stories in which they end up not seeing each other again . Heres the fundamental problem. When the children are separated from their parents theyre treated as unaccompanied minors. They go on a separate legal track than the parents. The parents can be deported very quickly. Theyre detained and they move through the system fast. The children on the other hand are treated as nondetained docket which means theyre not viewed as a priority. Their case cans drag on for months so now you have the parent back in honduras or guatemala and the child can be in a child care facility somewhere in the United States thousands of miles from the border. It gets very hard for the federal government to coordinate and track the location of both people. Frankly, nobodys had to do this before, its not something agencies are trained to do or equipped to do and the scary part is it leads to longterm separation that can extend for years in many case of these cases. Theres one estimate that the Trump Administration has probably lost track of 6,000 unaccompanied Migrant Children. Do you think thats possible . It is possible. Now, in those instances i think a lot of those kids are not in the worst situation, but what it highlights is how bad the federal government is at this job and not just tracking minors who are inside the United States, now you have to figure out a way to do something never done before, which is track location of the parents who in most instances have been sent back to Central America. You can tell by the videos and images youre showing and the scrambling going on in the federal government, they werent prepared to implement this policy. If they werent even ready to build the detention facilities for the children, i dont think we can expect theyve put together the logistics necessary to track the movements of the parents so they can later reunite them with the kids. I know they handed out a brochure but i would suggest thats woefully insufficient and based on my experience im worried well be hearing about this story in months and years to come because these kids are not with their parents. And victoria, we now know because the a. P. Is reporting tonight that what the administration is calling tender age shelters they have to come up with a euphemism, they have to come up and id like to know how long the meeting was where they came up with this phrase tender age shelters to describe the jailing of babies. And we dont know where those babies are, theyre somewhere in south texas, we dont know where they are crying tonight but its somewhere near here and this is a whole new stage of this story. It is. And if we think about when are these babies going to be reunited with their parents . These babies cannot fend for themselves and the parents may end up back in honduras and el salvador. The folks who are back there dont speak english. The minimum wage in el salvador is 300 a month. If we have trouble navigating the bureaucracy in the United States, how is a mother going to navigate the bureaucracy from afar in trying to reunite with her infant child so by separating out these children of all ages but especially the babies, this is putting us on a track to where we are separating out people for permanent, for life. John sedwig, as an expert in this field, what do you suggest we be looking for in the way we cover it now given the information we have including these three secret facilities we learned about for the babies. The key is going to be the weeks and months to come. Lets hope this policy ends quickly. Generally speaking, border activity is cyclical in nature. We are winding down what i would call the high season for border activity. Meaning its the spring and summer where we see the highest level of traffic. I would expect and hope that that traffic dissipates in the coming weeks and months but what the i think the most important thing is how is the federal government doing at reuniting these families . Are they making any effort to do that . I worry not only is this policy cruel and in my opinion does not border security, im for a secure border but this is not border security. Its also not well thought out and i worry were going to have kids snuck this country for years to come with their parents somewhere else. John sandwig and victoria difrancesca, thank you so much. Chris hays will be with us when we come back. The blade quality youd expect from gillette. At a price you wouldnt. The new gillette3 gillette5. Available now for 7. 99 gillette. The best a man can get. Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon. Applebees to go. Order online and get 20 off 20. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. You might be missing something. Y healthy. Your eyes. Thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. It has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega3. Ocuvite. Be good to your eyes. We are back live in brownsville, texas, joined by gabe gutierrez. Gabe, the latest story of the night is thiseuphemistic phrase theyve come up with called the tender age shelters. This is the Associated Press reporting that Trump Administration officials have been sending babies and other Young Children forcibly separated from their parents at the u. S. Mexico border to at least three tender age shelters in south texas. Have you picked up anything about these socalled tender aged shelters . We havent heard about anything like that until the a. P. Report right now. From our reporting today we can tell you that these Immigration Courts right now are overwhelmed and theyve been seeing over the last several weeks this increase in defendants that beforehand these judges werent seeing. Operation streamline started in 2005 to have more defendants in one particular court. Today we went to an Immigration Court hearing in brownsville, texas. One 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 were hearing from the a. P. Report that the shelters are housing children younger than four years old. Were joined now from mcallen, texas, by Msnbcs 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 tenderage shelters. Its horrifying. Its a moral abomination. Its a procedural and practical abomination. You cant stand up Something Like this that will care for kids at the rate theyre doing it. We knew this was coming. The question is there is an infrastructure in place for unaccompanied minors since 2014 at least and that is largely kids 10 and up. Lowest age 10. The new population are children under that age who for the first time are being put into this system because never before have they been ripped away from their parents. The question is where are they going . Are they being put in foster care . We have the glimpse of an answer. I think it will be much worse once we know the full scope of the answer. This is not stopping. Were standing here right now and theres this idea of the deterrent. The links of the chain go back to northern triangle and guatemala and honduras and people have made decisions to come here because they are facing the most imaginable personal terror. They are not going on that 1,000 mile journey for any other reason. What the Trump Administration has entered into is a war of terror with the cartels in Central America in which they have now said we must terrorize people more than the cartels are terrorizing people in their home countries so they dont come here. That is a bidding were that is ghastly and a moral abomination and one that i pray we cannot possibly win. I discovered what might be one of these tender age shelters earlier today because one of the witnesses who had been in and out of the shelter discovered there were soiled diapers and new diapers being purchased. It housed older children and teenaged girls. So this is a mixed population shelter. Im not sure whether these tender age shelters are exclusively for babies. I guess thats something well discover as this story develops. But have you picked up as youve been covering this story any references that sounded like Something Like this was going on . We knew they had to be put somewhere so the best guess of folks who had been talking was they were building out facilities. Again, this is scaling in realtime. This is the summer and lots of people are showing up and they are, again, choosing to exacerbate the problems of scale by the number of people they are entering into the system. They are taking this and they are producing a crisis by feeding more and more people into a system that is entirely unequipped to deal with it and feeding twoyearolds and threeyearolds and fouryearolds and fiveyearolds into a system that has never, ever, existed for them to be received into it. So this is a decision that has been made by the president of the United States and the people that work for him that are carrying it out to take this and create what is obviously now a very obvious humanitarian disaster and a practical one, too. I want to know whether these contracts have been vetted and who has them and who is caring for the children . Who is changing babies diapers and who is giving them bottles and putting them down for naps and whether the capacity is there for people that are licensed by the state to be able to give them the care they need and even if they are getting the best care as the a. P. Article notes, we turned away from orphanages and institutionalization for a reason and that is because it has traumatic, long lasting and permanent trauma that we are imposing on this children who have been taken from their home to find some semblance of security in our country. I want to go to Jacob Soboroff. Jacob, youve been reporting on the border for years now. I want to know if youve picked up any clues that were sounding like theres something out there called a tender age shelter. Chris just hit the nail on the head, lawrence, inside this building were standing in front of, 1,100 kids have been separated from their parents. I was inside the building and there are babies sitting by themselves in a cage with other babies. Where are those babies going to go . Where are they going to put those babies when their parents are picked up and sent into a federal prison or a local jail and then deported and then they never come back . You want to know what happens next . The babies dont end up making it into a facility like this. The parents that would normally come to the babies dont show up for asylum, they run from the Border Patrol and then well be seeing pictures of dead babies in the arizona desert and in the south texas brush. Thats what happens when you put deterrents in place and thats what will happen next. Youll have babies dying coming into the United States because families are scared to seek asylum because they dont want those babies to end up in tender age shelters. Maria teresa kumar, id like to get your reaction to the socalled tender age shelters. These arent shelters, lawrence, these are prisons for children and the American People have to be as outraged as i am. I am a mother, i have a threeyearold and a fiveyearold and what we are experiencing i cannot imagine not being able to soothe my child or that our government is using our tax dollars this way. I cannot imagine there is any american right now that is not as morally outraged as i am. Voto latino is organizing a marge called stopseparation. Org this sunday from el paso to the first tent city because this is not acceptable on our watch. We have to make sure we are present because the president has implemented a policy because hes capricious, not because he has a solution to have leadership in this world and demonstrate what our country needs we can recognize there are issues we need to address. I want to underscore something your guest said earlier. Some of these children will never see their parents again because our system is not accept up for this. Our system is not set up to address and channel and track children appropriately. The fact jacob has seen kids in cages, in cages, i dont understand why congress is not acting. Mitch mcconnell, this is on you, President Trump, this is on you, and melania and ivanka trump this is a Family Business you are operating so i hope youre watching. We are watching and organizing and this is not going to be okay. Chris hayes, theres another interesting element of the a. P. s reporting tonight. Theyre saying the government plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young Migrant Children in houston where and this is the important part city leaders denounced the move tuesday. City shelters do require some local licensing. There is some state licensing involved. That might be a new possible leverage point when this federal government is trying to create what are basically baby jails in texas. I cant stress strongly enough. Im in contact with a lot of folks that are organizers. The outcry over this is like nothing people have seen. The Trump Administration will double down and they will try to wait it out until it goes away. They wont lift a finger. They wont stop it unless they are made to stop it. Were going to put babies in detention as americans until some alignment of Political Forces in this country through constituent pressure and local leaders and elected officials in washington say enough, stop, we cannot do this. This is madness. And unless and until that happens, they will keep doing it. So local officials standing in the way of licensing of these facilities, political leaders of washington, constituents who have been burying congressional offices with phone calls. I heard someone say its the most theyve seen since health care care, all that needs to be sustained thor will continue. Maria teresa kumar, it seems that basically four the total will be secret baby jails in south texas changes the nature of this story. It wont work unless people take a page from the play book of health care, flood your town halls, talk to your representatives, make sure they recognize this is not who we are because we have to make sure we are present. Come to tornillo, texas, this sunday because its a march but its talking about who we are. These children have to know they are loved and cared for. Whatever the American Government is doing they have gone rogue and these are not laws, they are poliies that can be changed tomorrow. Chris hayes, Maria Teresa Kumar, Jacob Soboroff, thank you. Gabe gutierrez in brownsville, thank you for joining us. Well be right back. Or to carry . Its show of strength. Or its sign of intelligence . In crossing harsh terrain. Or breaking new ground . This is the time to get an exceptional offer on the mercedes of your midsummer dreams at the mercedesbenz summer event, going on now. Receive up to a 1,250 summer event bonus on select suvs. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. 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I first want to get your reaction to this breaking news report to want that the Trump Administration already has three secret facilities, some would say jails that it is running right here in south texas where i am for babies. And that they are planning a fourth which they would like to locate in first of all, thank yo the opportunity, lawrence, to share with you my experience in visiting the centers in san diego. This is inhumane. It is critical that the American People stand up to this president , to this bullish way of trying to gain control of congress over an issue that should be separate and apart in dealing with very small babies. And tell us what youve been able to see. I know youve tried to see facilities on the california border. What have you been able to see . So we visited, first of all, a Processing Center where parents come in with their children. They claim you know, theyre there. They ask for refuge. The Refugee Status is what theyre asking for, so theyre presenting themselves. Theyre not trying to sneak over and under any wall. They have their children. So they invite them in to be processed, to show their identification. Then theyre placed in these very cold, freezing cells. Concrete walls. There is no natural light. There are giant fans that are blowing cold air throughout the cell because theres a toilet in the middle of the room. And theyre mixed in with other families, and the babies have nothing but an aluminum blanket to cover themselves with. It is unreal that these are the things that we talk about, that we shame other governments for doing, and yet here we are, President Trump doing the same thing. About a dozen republican senators led by senator orrin hatch of utah have actually written a letter to the president , asking him to immediately halt this new policy. And the republican senators, in their letter, make it very clear to the president that they know that this is happening exclusively because of President Trumps choice. It is absolutely exclusively the president s choice. The zerotolerance policy that he has come up with, i have no idea where he came up with this idea, but he has ushered it down to Homeland Security and to i. C. E. And what they are doing is incarcerating toddlers. Toddlers are not a threat to our national security, and we should be treating them as babies that they are, and we should be providing them with the things that they need instead of putting them in iceboxes. Tell us briefly, if you could, about how you made it to the United States when you were 5 years old. So as a little girl, my parents didnt see a future for me in guatemala. My mother was very ill, couldnt take care of me anymore, and they sent me to live with my fathers oldest uncle, somebody that i hardly knew. That was traumatic enough for me, leaving a loving home with my parents to come and live with my aunt and my uncle. But at least i was in a loving home. I didnt spend time in a frozen cement cell with strangers that were making fun of me. Thats not what happened to me as a child. And im so embarrassed and ashamed that our government that the American People are watching this, and all of us need to stand up because today is these toddlers. Whos going to be next in the target of donald trump . Congresswoman norma torres, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Tonights last word is next. This car is literally my baby. Which is why i use armor all ultra shine wash wipes. They effectively remove dirt, dust and grime with no water. That car is in tip top shape we are both in tip top shape armor all, its easy to look good. If you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. 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The the ap puts it this way, Trump Administration officials sending babies and other Young Children separated from their parents at the u. S. Mexico border to