The situation at the United States Southern border can feel like some kind of paralysis.

Almost everyone seems to agree it's appalling, it's a crisis, but it still isn't getting

fixed.

Sometimes a shocking detail can sort of break the paralysis.

Last year we heard a kid crying for his mother in a detention center and as a result there

was action.

Last week a group of lawyers was allowed into a border patrol station in Clint, Texas.

After news about what they saw started trickling out, so did the news that the acting head

of US Customs and Border Protection was resigning.

Last night the house passed a $4.5 billion emergency border aid bill to help ease the crisis.

Earlier today the Senate passed its own version.

Both parties, both bodies agree that something must be done.

Elora Moker-G was one of those lawyers who went to Clint.

She's the director of the Immigration's Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School and I asked

her about what she saw.

Clint is a facility designed to hold adults just over 100 of them and when we showed up there

on the morning of June 17th we learned that there were more than 350 children in the

custody of Customs and Border Protection.

They told us they were scared, they told us they hadn't had an opportunity to make a phone

call since crossing the border for many of them.

They didn't know where their family members and loved ones were.

They were hungry and dirty.

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