inside of the facilities. it is not just the kids, it is everyone. people drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members of congress. i brought it up to their superiors and they said officers are under distress and act out sometimes, no accountability. she also tweeted after i forced myself into a cell with women and began speaking to them, one of them described the treatment at the hands of officers as, quote, psychological warfare, waking them at odd hours for no reason and calling them expletive and what about that is due to lack of funding. so a very tense moment out side of the clint facility. the members of congress have seen a couple of facilities and this is the final stop and they will come out shortly to share what they saw with us as these opposing groups continue to stand in front of that doorway back there. natasha chen, thank you very much. i want to bring in brian hastings, the chief of operations for the u.s. border
that is humane and that is compassionate and that keeps families together. with more, i m joined by the nbc correspondent who broke the story of the internal dhs reports. the reports from inside the inspector general of homeland security. so are they lying to the public what they know is the truth? they re covering it up? well, it it s a good question. what we good was through a foia request. freedom of information. yes, that s inside baseball. freedom of information. where they turned this over. but this was not something that was supposed to be made public. these are from initial visits where investigators went to different facilities run by border patrol in the el paso sector. one of those, of course, would be the clint facility that dediscussed last week and they found these terrible conditions. some of them were so bad, as you mentioned, they thought they might have hunger strikes or riots. they had four showers, chris, for nearly 800 immigrants. when you hear acting secre
would handle that asylum claim expeditiously with respect to her and allow her to come to this country if she meets asylum, that spares them the very dangerous journ jie. let me be very clear. if she decides to make that journey, that shouldn t in any way undermine her claim for asylum. reporter: later today we are expecting mostly democratic members of the house and state representatives. they will be touring the clint facility and speaking to us afterwards about what they re seeing inside. back to you. thanks, natasha. remember, it s a judge having to rule that these sites have to be safe and sanitary. it took a judge to ebb sure that to happen. it s clearly going to remain the central issue in the 2020 debate moving forward for now. the republicans seem to like where this debate is headed. it will be interesting in the months ahead. we are talking some sports ahead. kevin durant shocking the
that s on the outskirts of miami, so we re not sure what s going to happen here today. and as you mentioned, beto o rourke is having a rally outside this facility tomorrow. we re expecting a number of members of congress here on monday as well. you see this trickle of politicians coming here because of those reports of unhygienic poor conditions for the migrants being held. it s also caused outrage in the public. we ve seen groups of various sizes coming to the outside of this facility all week, sometimes holding signs. last night we saw them holding vigil lighting candles outside the fence here, even singing in spanish across the fence to the children hoping those kids would be able to hear them. so it s really tugged on the heart strings of a lot of people who have seen those reportsment now, i must say cnn crews have been allowed to tour this clint facility as well as one in mcallen, texas, but with no cameras. pen and paper only, and what our crews report back is that they did see
to go inside, to view, to tour? reporter: fred, i m here with secretary castro right now. earlier you and a state representative were denied entry. we came here to the clint facility to see if we could take a tour to look at the conditions of the hundreds of children who are here. i came with three state representatives from texas, and including the state representative who represents this area of clint. they came out and said that we couldn t go through the facility, that we would not be given a tour. reporter: i want to ask you about something that president trump said earlier. he said that, referring to the father and daughter who had drowned earlier, he said if they thought it was hard to get in, as in there were a wall, they wouldn t be coming return so many lives would be saved. what do you say to that? that this president has made a total failure, a disaster when