Michelle Brane:

Absolutely. That's exactly what I saw, not just some of those children, Amna.

All children, anybody who approaches the port of entry seeking protection or asylum are turned away and told to get in a line. This line is not an official line. There's no formal process for it. It is run by migrants themselves.

And children who are turned away just like everybody else are not able to get on this list. They're not able to get in line, for some complicated reasons involving the Mexican process. But, as a result, children are in this revolving door or in this real limbo, where they literally — they can't approach the border, they can't get in line for the border, and they're not offered any options in Mexico for protection in the United States, and very often offered return to their home countries.

And so, really, in turning children away, the United States is violating multiple laws. They're violating the International Refugee Convention. They're violating U.S. immigration law. And they're violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which is — was in part specifically created to address this problem of children who are seeking protection at our border.

This problem doesn't need any law to fix it. It doesn't need any real shift, except for the U.S. government complying with its obligations under law to accept children who are seeking protection at our border, and put them through a process in the United States.