see some of the girls and exactly one baby in mccallen, texas this weekend. it s a disturbing picture. there are children by themselves. i saw a 6-month-old baby. little girls, little boys. they re all on concrete floors. in cages. there s just no other way to describe it. they re big chain link cages on cold, concrete floors and metal blankets handed out to people. some people working in these facilities are trying to secretly deliver the message of what is happening in them. and the video you are about to see was first shown by rachel in the last hour, it is reportedly from a facility providing day-time care for some of these children in new york city. these are incarcerated children. they are not free to leave. this is not like your kid going
little girls, little boys. they re all on concrete floors. in cages. there s just no other way to describe it. they re big chain link cages on cold, concrete floors and metal blankets handed out to people. some people working in these facilities are trying to secretly deliver the message of what is happening in them. and the video you are about to see was first shown by rachel in the last hour, it is reportedly from a facility providing day-time care for some of these children in new york city. these are incarcerated children. they are not free to leave. this is not like your kid going today care. you dropping your kid off at day care. the source of the video is reportedly someone who worked in that facility, who then quit after making this recording last
the only signs of the 60 children housed inside. some may have been forcibly separated from their parents after crossing into the country illegally. the u.s. government calls it a tender age facility, one of at least three in texas alone. the ceo of southwest key offered his own description. i want to make it very, very clear that this is not a detention center. we have a licensed by the state of texas to run a child care facility. what we run is a child care facility. reporter: cnn and other media outlets have not been allowed to bring cameras inside any of the facilities. the government has only given this video and some photos showing families behind chain link cages, resting on green sleeping pads and wrapped in mylar blankets. none of the government handout materials show girls. we ve only seen the boys. i will look into that. reporter: cnn spoke to democratic texas congressman who got a rare glimpse inside one of
the children being separated? there s a very wide age range. i think if you they made a policy if you re under 5 they are not going to take you from your mom or dad. we don t really know. this is a lot of chaos down her there are some things that we can see very clearly, they are deliberately enforcing this new policy of separating moms and dads from their sons and daughters. senator murkily, you were talking about the processing center where parents are working through the immigration system. i m curious if you ve had a chance to visit facilities where the children are being kept and i m curious as to what you can tell us about those facilities. we are going to be able to see that facility in brownsville later today. we have not seen it yet. we did see the children who were held inside here in wire mesh chain link cages.
reporting on scared children being taken from their parents and held in government processing centers. i want to show you brand-new images from the border patrol showing children trying to sleep on mats inside a detention facility. this in mccallen, texas and these are images that we can show you because they have been provided by customs and border patrol, but this is all they are letting us show you. they will not let us in to film our own images. a short time ago i spoke to senator jeff merkley who today toured a government facility processing some of these children. watch. we did, of course, see the children who were held inside of here in wire mesh chain link cages that are about 30 by 30. a lot of young folks put into them. it is inflicting enormous trauma on the children and enormous angst on the parents who engage in this family separation and there s no need at all and no