fox news live, i m arthel trump. we have live fox news team coverage starting with mark meredith. but let s begin with steve harrigan, what are the senators most mad at? if. reporter: eric, i think you could really sense the anger after they visited the donna facility which they weren t allowed to bring media cameras along with them, but some senators did post pictures on social media, on twitter. i think they were angry about the conditions. they noted the overcrowding, and in a press conference later that afternoon you could really sense their fury. here s senator cruz. the donna facility is a giant tent city built with the capacity of 250. it has nearly 4,000 people in it. we saw cages after cages after cages of little girls, of little boys lying side by side, touching each other, covered with reflective emergency blankets. reporter: a number of senators called for a return to the trump era policy of having migrants who i apply for asylum do that only from mexico.
delaware and steve wilmington is in the southern border with a closer look at conditions on the ground. let s start with you, what is going on? reporter: 19 senators, republicans made it into the border, touring on foot and in gunboats. they saw the facility and donna, texas, a holding facility that has gotten some negative attention for overcrowding conditions. many senators in a fiery press conference later today criticized conditions inside donna and said there should be a change back to trump era policies. here is ted cruz. this is wrong and a direct consequence of policy decisions by the biden administration to start building the wall and return to catch and release and end the stay in mexico policy. reporter: number of democrats and biden officials toward a different border facility. they made the claim the surge has nothing to do with who is in the oval office, they are life and death and that is driving people to make the long march to the us, not any policies.
responding to situation the southern border this as health and human services says, more than 18,000 migrant children are now in u.s. custody. you can see a stream of mostly kids, and very young adults. some infants going into two staging areas under an interstate. under a road port of entry because there s so many people coming in with that welcome sign that biden put out there and shuttering down that trump was doing that was working before. it s a mess. arthel: live to southern border right now, stey steve is live there in michigan, texas. came down to border to see things with their own eyes they patrolled in foot and state police gun boats an visited facility in donna a holding facility that gotten negative conditions of overcrowding late afternoon they held a fiery press conference sharply critical of of the conditions they are held in and here s senator cruz. this is inhumane, it is wrong and it is the direct consequence of policy decisions by biden administratio
reaction and we have fox team coverage mark meredith haze latest on the response from the biden administration but we begin with steve harrigan reporting live from the border city of mission, texas. steve. jon, 18,000 unaccompany minors in u.s. system and a 00 more arriving each day the politicians from both parties coming down each day to tour smflt facilities on friday it was 19 senate republicans. touring facilities along the border on foot, on gun boat patrols also visiting a facility in donna, texas which has gotten notoriety for being overcrowded at a fiery press conference number of senators were sharply critical of the conditions in which the migrants were being held. here s senator cruz. this needs to stop and this was a manmade crisis this was avoidable and preventible. to get them out of the detention centers, into more child appropriate health and human services facilities, but even when they are moved out and inland into dallas, for example, the problems don t
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