ware. you said there s nothing going on behind you. you re at an ice detention center. reporter: correct. this is where they re processed. okay. i read a report that those offices are closed on sundays. which begs the question, is that open behind you? i mean, that might explain why there s no activity if the office is closed, and if it s clo closed, why would these things be happening on a sunday? reporter: so the ero is the enforcement and removal operations. like, the offices are closed but the enforcement and removal operations happen at some really weird hours. so this operates kind of like a sally port of a police station. and because these types of raids happen pretty regularly, i mean, they ve been going on for quite some time during the obama administration, 400,000 people were deported. it peaked out with president
trump at about 250,000 people. these removal operations are happening on a consistent basis and most of them very, very early in the morning. i don t think it s out of the ordinary for the sally port to be closed, and for people to be in the background. we just don t know what s going on down there because it s behind a fence. okay. thank you, gadi. we appreciate that. let s bring back charlie and pam. i m curious if you re hearing anything on whether the ice operations are, indeed, now underway. but can you also assess the president s motivation in publicizing them? well, that s a very good question. and your question about the building being closed with the reporter in front of it saying nothing is happening really raises the question about what of this is really at all? this fakeout, if we re going to do something, we re going to do something and keeping everyone on edge and keeping it in the headlines because trump wants to enforce immigration more and his critics don t want hi
angeles. the big question is raising there, how much are these happening. i know earlier it seemed relatively quiet in l.a. reporter: yeah and we never really seen raids like this announced ahead of time and put out there for the targets of these raids to know. from here we haven t seen very much. we have been posting up over by that sally port. we have seen one white van that looked like tonighted out window koms a tinted out windows come and go. we know in new york it appears some of the raids in new york that may have been targeting some of these families may not have been successful because the agents that were trying to carry those out were turned away. when people wonder what that looks like when agents, i.c.e. agents are turned away, we have some video of that from back in 2017 where we went on a ride
supplies, of snacks, of drinks for the kids, of medical supplies. there was a medical unit. we went into one of the big rooms called a port and the kids were seen there watching an animated, hispanic movie. they seemed to be well cared for by the agents. the vice president asked them how their experience had been, if they had been well cared for and they nodded, yes, they had been. a lot of the families were sleeping on the floor, under these blankets, like tin foil. they give them these because they say it s more hygienic versus the cloth blankets that they used before that they had to wash. but it was certainly a different story when we went to the next facility in mccallen, texas. this housed the adult, single migrants. we walked into what was called a sally port and there were nearly 400 men crammed in to the cells. it seemed to be standing-room
were caring for those children, making sure their needs were met. and because of the supplemental funding from congress, most of the children, the families, are moved out of the processing facilities well within the 72-hour limit. they come here to catholic charities where i am now. it was a very different story at the next facility for the single adult migrants. we walked into what s called a sally port. the stench was horrific. the only thing these men had, nearly 400 of them, were these blankets like tinfoil. we re told they are given these because they re more hygenic and they don t have to wash them. but it was hot in there. some were crying out they haven t had any shower. the trailer with the showers got there the day before the vice president visited. some complained about being hungry and not brushing their teeth. cbp said it s cleaned three times a day, they get three hot meals a day and did brush their teeth once a day but did concede many probably hadn t had showers yet. an