Tornillo

More than fourteen thousand children passed through it in total before it was finally emptied and closed.

Around the same time, a tent facility in Tornillo, Texas, was expanded to hold nearly four thousand children, exempt from many of the child welfare inspection requirements that license smaller shelters.

More recently, government data reviewed by the Associated Press found that as detention numbers climbed again, thousands of children ended up sleeping in shelters holding hundreds, in some cases over a thousand, other kids at once.

Lawmakers introduced legislation, the Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act, specifically targeting two large facilities holding more than 4,000 children combined, one of them a tent city in the Texas desert.

Yeah, yeah.

One time we went down to Tornillo, Texas.

There's a big giant recording complex down there called, uh, um, what is it called? Oh, my God, Tornillo, Texas.

I can't believe I've forgotten this thing.

Tornillo?

Something Ranch.

Sonic Ranch.

You have called for a number of things, one of them being to abolish ICE.

And you recently traveled to the border to Tornillo, Texas to see the shelters, to see where some of these separated families are being held.

What would you replace ICE with, and do we not need protection at the border?

Well, we absolu- we absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure, to make sure that people are safe in passage.