or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. today s xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i d rather not. you have to listen to this story. so please pay attention, everyone. it s really important. the department of health and human services telling cnn that by tomorrow 249 migrant children will have been removed from an overcrowded and filthy border facility in clint, texas, and my next guest is part of the team of lawyers and doctors that visited the facility last week and sounded the alarm on the disturbing conditions. they reported that children were being denied regular access to showers, clean clothes, toothbrushes, proper food and even beds. so joining me now is warren binford, she s a law professor
breaking news? they will be moved out of the border facility where you saw the horrible conditions. on the one hand i m thrilled to know the children will no longer be in the facility that was failing them. but at the same time we received word that at least some of the children have been transferred to el paso border station number one. that s teep deeply concerning. it s a situation where they maybe in the facility that s worse than the one they left. when we went to do the inspections last week, we did have one of our attorneys go and visit that facility. there were almost no children there at the time. and because we had this crisis unfolding before us at the clint facility, she came back after interviewing the only child there. during that interview she learned that he had been hit by a guard at that facility. they don t really have the infrastructure there to care for the children either. so what really needs to happen the children need to go to their parents sp families.
held at a customs and border protections agency in clint, texas. these charn will be shifted into its shelter system by today. this comes days after cnn roshted on a team of lawyers, doctors and advocates warning of what they called major health and hygiene problems at that clint facility. our jay tapper asked vice president pence about those conditions. pence quickly pivoted to politics. as of june 10th there was a 60% increase from dhs to hhs. we are counting down to the first democratic debate. round 1 is tomorrow night. it features elizabeth war represent and beto o rourke center stage. o rourke wants non-military households to help cover costs of health care for veterans of new wars.
story. please pay attention. it s really important. the department of health and human services telling cnn that by tomorrow 249 migrant children will having removed from an over crowded and filthy border facility in texas. my next guest is part of the team of lawyers and doctors that visited the facility last week and sounded the alarm on the disturbing conditions. they reported children were being denied regular access to showers, clean clothes, toothbrushes, proper food, and even beds. so joining me now is warren. she s a law professor. and was part of the team that witnessed the conditions firsthand. i m so glad you re here to tell us about this experience. thank you for joining us. professor. thank you. what is your reaction to the
reports from witnesses, from lawyers, who along with doctors and interpreters, have been able to get inside. these are lawyers who all but stumbled upon a brand-new trump administration crisis when they found a facility holding kids that nobody had said was holding kids. the border patrol station in clint, texas, is not designed to hold kids. historically, it has been an adult facility and everybody thought that s what it still was. but when lawyers trying to monitor compliance with government rules about how kids are supposed to be treated in border patrol custody, when those lawyers learned that there were kids being held at this border patrol station that wasn t designed to hold kids, that was only designed to hold adult men. and those lawyers followed that news and they got themselves in there to see the conditions, what they found was both almost describable and something they felt needed to immediately be