As with any secure facility, it's hard to get a good luck at what's going on inside of detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border.
However, when we do get a sense of the circumstances of migrant detention from rare photos and even the statements of lawyers working on behalf of the Trump Administration, it doesn't exactly paint a reassuring picture.
So as reports of unsanitary conditions and unsafe treatment leaked out, Democratic members of congress traveled down to facilities in El Paso and Clint, Texas to see what was going on for themselves.