figure out where they were keeping them. we talked to the chief officer and he indicated they recently expanded the facility but we couldn t see an expansion. after we were done with interviewing on the first day, we drove around the facility and the only thing we could see that appeared to be new as a metal warehouse with no windows. we couldn t fathom that the american government would truly be keeping hundred of children in a metal warehouse. yet, in fact, when we came back the next day and asked the border patrol and the children that is, in fact, where many of the children were being kept. why were these children they shouldn t be there. they should not be in this cbp facility. no. they shouldn t be there longer than 72 hours max. what category are they in? why were they there and where were the adults that they should be attached to? if there were any. basically what happened is all of the children that i interviewed, they had come to the united states with adult relati
appeared to be new as a metal warehouse with no windows. we couldn t fathom that the american government would truly be keeping hundred of children in a metal warehouse. yet, in fact, when we came back the next day and asked the border patrol and the children that is, in fact, where many of the children were being kept. why were these children they shouldn t be there. they should not be in this cbp facility. no. they shouldn t be there longer than 72 hours max. what category are they in? why were they there and where were the adults that they should be attached to? if there were any. basically what happened is all of the children that i interviewed, they had come to the united states with adult relatives, and they were coming to family in the united states. so they all almost all of them had telephone numbers, at least the ones that were verbal. they were basically trying to bring their families together. they were separated from their families at the border. some of the fa
they were being fed franken food that isn t suitable to give children especially on a daily basis and given the same breakfast, same lunch, same dinner day after day. we re talking about instant foods. we re talking about kool-aid. we re talking about frozen burri burritos. it is not a way to care for children who are our responsibility as a nation. we did not even into this border patrol facility on our radar when we were planning our trip, this inspection. we had heard the week before we left that there were children that were in recent weeks being moved to this facility so we showed up in not sure how many children were going to be in this facility with maximum capacity of 104. there were over 350 children, chris, and we scanned the list and immediately we saw zero, zero, one, two, four, five. they were all ages. they were infants, toddlers, preschoolers and we couldn t figure out where they were keeping them. we talked to the chief officer and he indicated they had recently expande
moved to this facility so we showed up in not sure how many children were going to be in this facility with maximum capacity of 104. there were over 350 children, chris, and we scanned the list and immediately we saw zero, zero, one, two, four, five. they were all ages. they were infants, toddlers, preschoolers and we couldn t figure out where they were keeping them. we talked to the chief officer and he indicated they had recently expanded the facility but we couldn t see an expansion. so after we were done with interviewing on the first day, we drove around the facility and the only thing that we could see that appeared to be new was a metal warehouse with no windows and we couldn t fathom that the american government would truly be keeping hundreds of children in a metal warehouse. and, yet, in fact, when we came back the next day and we asked the border patrol and we asked the children, that was, in fact, where many of the children were being kept. one of the lawyers who has beco