well, that never happened but still she says the damage was done. what followed is a trip for her to colorado and a detention center there for a child that had to be taken to a child care facility in florida. they were separated for weeks. it wasn t until last week and with help of immigration attorneys that garcia was able to speak to her son over the phone. this is what all played out here. this woman finally able to hold her child in her arms. the struggle and the fight is certainly not over, though. now it will be up to them to prove to the u.s. government that they should remain in the united states. that a return to el salvador could mean placing their lives in danger. not just her but also her little one because of the violence and the poverty that they were fleeing in the first place. for garcia, you speak to her and she says that fight, that uphill battle is what is ahead. that s okay. as long as she has her child by her side. so these are the pictures, these are the images th
detention centers ready to roll? i.c.e. has 2,500 detention beds available to them now. those are very expensive beds. $350 million annually for 2,000 beds. so, just looking at the numbers of families coming across the border and he wants to detain them all. we already have 2,300 kids. we already have 2,300 kids. you re settlement, the lawsuit on how children can be detained. not only detained for 21 days but detained in a child care facility. isn t the administration trying to overturn that? the court is not going to overturn that. this is the same judge the obama administration tried to make some modifications, albeit on a smaller scale and the judge rejected those efforts. i don t see the court approving any of those efforts now.
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
2,300 children already separated from their parents sitting in detention centers and shelters now. cnn s polo sandoval reports. reporter: this is a detention facility for the youngest immigrant children being held against their will in a u.s. city. it s a nondescript former private home in a tiny texas town of combs, 20 miles from the border. from outside these black strollers are the only signs of some 60 children ranging in age from infants to 10 years old 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. today the ceo of southwest key, the company that operates the center and others offered his own description. i want to make it very, very clear that this is not a detention center. we have a license by the state of texas to run a child care facility. and what we run is a child care facility. reporter: this facility in combs
there are things that can be done immediately to fix the situation, i would agree that. every summer under every president we have an influx at the border. we need to make sure we have these family residences, not orphanages that we used to send kids to, but family residences to keep kids with their parents. deciding where their parents is where the kids should go. we should never separate the two. these tender age facilities, children from months old to 12 years old being held not knowing where their parents are, when you hear about these facilities, how does that make you feel? it is a better situation than some of the other detention facilities that i have seen under the previous administration as well. so many people came across the border, we would send them on a bus or airplane to somewhere else in the country. i would rather keep them in close proximity at a dhs facility or a child care