WASHINGTON DC (CNN) - A growing number of Democrats are asking the Biden administration to make urgent changes at the border amid a massive surge in the number of migrants, especially unaccompanied minors.
A surge that has left many families desperate on both sides of the border.
As tens of thousands of migrants make the dangerous journey to the U.S. southern border, many discover that getting here is just the beginning.
Some migrants describe crowded immigration processing centers without showering facilities. And some say they slept under a bridge overnight on pebbles and sand while waiting to get transported to immigration processing facilities.
Once there, they get three meals a day.
This as CNN learns that about 4,200 unaccompanied migrant children are in Border Patrol custody.
Attorneys blowing the whistle this weekend about children in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at this massive temporary immigration processing center in donna, texas, where unaccompanied children, including many under 10 years old are being held, some for five to seven days which is against U.S. law.
Peter Schey is a lawyer representing the thousands of unaccompanied minors in federal custody and says capacity at the donna facility is 1,000-detainees and right now, it's holding about 2,000.
"It is an untenable situation the administration needs to address immediately," Schey of Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law said.
The head of homeland security directed FEMA to help create more shelters for unaccompanied children and move them out of border patrol custody quickly.
DHS says Border Patrol officials "do everything they can to take care of unaccompanied children in their care."
As for mothers entering with children, many are released by border patrol at this bus station in Brownsville.
Celbin Mergar says he lost everything during a recent hurricane in Honduras.
Marisol Ramirez says the toughest part of her journey was when her daughter was hungry and she had no food says. She is here because of the lack of jobs and the abundance of violence in her home country.
A group of Republican lawmakers traveled to the border Monday to get a first hand look at the situation.
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