candidates are back out campaigning after their first presidential debates. today we ve got tulsi gabbard, amy klobuchar elizabeth warren at the rainbow push convention in chicago. in the meantime, julian castro will be at a detention center in clint, texas, after joining a protest outside a similar facility in south florida, yesterday. natasha chen joins us now. today castro will visit one of the facilities where migrant children were reportedly being held in some pretty poor conditions. what do we know about his visit? reporter: victor, we re talking about a trickle of several politicians coming to this clint facility in the coming days, starting with castro. julian castro is going to begin later this morning at an el paso community college holding a round table about the trump administration s family separation policy, and then he is going to come here to try and tour this facility. now, it s unclear whether he will actually be admitted because he did say that he and other pre
decriminalize entering the country between ports of entry. he repeated that call to repeal section 1325. now here is what hurd and castro had to say about this sta. the concept of open borders open borders is going to exacerbate the problem and it s not just refined to border towns dealing with it it s every other town having to deal with this. we should have we shall have laws. open borders is a republican talking point. and i don t buy the b.s. narrative that the women and children coming toward our southern border represent a national security threat. i am not going to criminalize desperation. if somebody is trying to traffic drugs or traffic humans, we already have laws for that. tomorrow we are expecting beto o rourke here doing a rally outside the clint facility and on monday we expect a delegation from the house, including representative jaw keen castro, representative judy chu. veronica escobar who represents
gabe gutierrez has been reporting from from the past couple days. texas. what s important to know about this is that the judge that s overseeing this case grants a temporary restraining order, a couple things could happen, she could immediately request that they go in there with water, with pediatricians, other remedies to help these children. the other thing is hold someone from cbp in contempt, she could put somebody in jail, order a big fine. i talked to one of the lawyers that filed this temporary retrainir restraining order request today and there are a whole range of options. there could be serious consequences for what s going on right now in custody in the clint facility. the facility you were in yesterday whereabouts was, where bill de blasio was earlier today. yeah. has anyone been inside? do we know the conditions there? no, and just to be clear i actually i didn t request to go inside yesterday and i didn t get inside yesterday. it is very difficult to get ins
clint, texas. on wednesday cnn got a look inside. officials say though it was important to let the media see the clint facility though according to sources it was prepped ahead of the tour. cnn s nick valencia has more. reporter: dave and christine, from what i saw inside the clint border patrol station was not unconscionable. they visited a facility that had about 250 children in it. today there was 117. it was well over capacity. in the processing center we saw processing cells. there was one child i saw with red, bloodshot eyes. another appeared to be sick with yellow eyes and that was not quarantined. a teenage girl was quarantined with the flu. the most heartbreaking thing was children sleeping on 1 inch mats because there wasn t enough
bernie sanders and his wife jane who are down there right now, brn kree was there earlier today, his wife was there yesterday. this is about if you remember that viral video with the lawyer arguing for the trump administration. yes. they didn t need to have tooth brushes, this he didn t need to have soap, this was directly related to that case. i want to read some of the stuff in the declarations. it truly shocking. this is from a 16-year-old female. we are in a metal cage with 20 other teenagers with babies and young children. we have one mat and we need to share with each other. it is very cold. a 12-year-old boy, i m hungry here at clint all the time. sometimes i wake up from hunger at 4:00 a.m., sometimes at other hours, i m too scared to ask the officials for any more food. one more, 16-year-old female. we slept on mats on the floor, they gave us aluminum blankets, they took our babies diapers, formula and belongings, our clothes were wet and we were cold so we got sick. ther