Overcrowding at border detention facilities for children in Texas

As more unaccompanied migrant children seek entry to the United States, detention facilities along the US border are getting stretched beyond their limits. Host Marco Werman speaks with Neha Desai, a lawyer who interviewed children and teens held in a facility operated by Customs and Border Protection in Donna, Texas.

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