WATCH: Video shows shows severe overcrowding of men in cages at Texas detainment facility during VP Pence's visit Friday.
The experience did not appear to temper a statement he made earlier in the day thatThe vice president, flanked by Sen. Lindsey Graham. R-S.C., and officials from the Department of Homeland Security, repeated the words,"the crisis is real," in referring to illegal border crossings and legal asylum claims at the border.
"I couldn't be more impressed with the compassionate work that our Customs and Border Protection are doing here at this border facility," Pence said. He refuted the description, used by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Trump critics, of detention facilities as"concentration camps." "The idea that this is false or exaggerated is really offensive to me," she said."It’s like saying migrants' voices are untrue. It all paints the same picture — depraved indifference to the safety and welfare of children who come to us and are put in our care."
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