specific incident and make sure something like this doesn t happen again, something is in place to prevent it. that is worth doing. there may still be children that need to be reunited. we know on an expanded lawsuit on reunification the government identified thousands of children separated before zero tolerance. as we look at reuniting those children and look at the children as you point out sleeping on concrete benches, those are children who have come unaccompanied and there s no room in health and human services to take them in so they re stuck at border stations. now congress wants answers and wants some investigations. you ve got new reporting maybe there s a plan, extended plan to house these migrant children. where and when? that s right. so my colleague courtney kube and i reported today ft. benning, georgia, is being looked at as a possible location to move unaccompanied children because, sfrafrpgly, health and human services, the agency
some of these children may not have seen their parents for months. let s think about the physical conditions. texas in july in a parking lot. the coolest place they had were vans. after this happened, the contractors responsible for big these children trusted the government s ability to do their jobs so little that they ended up big in coach buses each time they had to do reunifications in the future. julia, you re reporting today that migrant children are sleeping on concrete benches or outside border control stations because of overcrowd something. yes, you can look back a year ago and say, at least we re past that. children are being caught in this bureaucratic purgatory as we called it. these are children who came unaccompanied, often with a direct relative, but not a
on the show later for a different topic. coming up, congressional democrats hatching a plan to try the case against president trump without actually invoking the i word. that includes hauling in a key figure in the nixon hearings. left in vans for hours. sleeping on concrete benches. more shocking revelations about the trump administration s treatment of migrant children in u.s. custody. here s how one former homeland security secretary is reacting to these disturbing details. ry g to these disturbing details. i m appalled. i can just envision children being stuck in a van for hours and hours and can i say i m surprised? frankly no.
parent. they need to be placed with a sponsor. instead, they re being backed up in border patrol stations, where they don t have beds, they re sleeping on concrete benches. that s where these children are being held for days. we heard of a 1-year-old being held for 9 days with 105 degree fever, because they weren t able to get to health and human services, because there wasn t enough space for them. thank you for reporting on this beat. so important. after friday s mass shooting in virginia beach, that claimed 12 lives. virginia s governor is convening a special session to take up gun control. ralph northam joins me live next.
child was left in a van before being reunited with family before being separated by the trump administration. in two exclusive reports, nbc news uncovered disturbing stories of the treatment of migrant children, the first revealed that migrant children were held in advance overnight, most spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles. the children were between 5 and 12 years old. and the second report says that migrant children often end up sleeping on concrete benches or outside border patrol stations because the department is operating beyond capacity. julia ainsley broekt ke both of these stories for us. let s talk about this reporting that revealed how the government handled these government situations. that s right, ali. so you talk about 39 hours. most of these children were there over a day. these were children taken from a health and human services facility to an i.c.e. facility at port isabel, texas, to be reunited with their parents. it was supposed to be a