Trump policy of detaining children `may amount to torture`, UN says - as it happened
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Guardian correspondents follow all the developments on both sides of the border as president points finger at DemocratsGoing through hell: parents tell of anguish at the borderTexas border denounces `shameful´ camp for migrant children 11.08pm BST We are ending our live coverage of migrant family separations at the border and the fallout from Trump´s recent policy changes. Thanks for following along. Here are some key developments of the day and dispatches from Guardian reporters on both sides of the border. 10.42pm BST US lawmakers visited holding facilities for immigrant children across the country on Friday - but they have been unable to speak with detained youth. Three Democratic senators went to a holding facility on the Texas border near El Paso that appears to be occupied by roughly 250 teenage boys, mostly from Central America, according to the AP. A contractor that operates the shelter reportedly briefed senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, but would not let them enter holding areas or speak with detained minors. I know for a FACT that @FLOTUS has been a strong voice of compassion for migrant children. The vicious treatment of her over the last day is a reminder of how Trump Derangement Syndrome,where hatred for him justifies everything,has become an epidemic. Totally lunacy everywhere!!!STOP! The Administration needs to take a time out ... If the Administration wants to have a rational dialogue about fixing our immigration system, I am happy to do that, but making up immigration policy on the fly is just wrong. We will fight this in every way we can.`The thought that this immoral policy would actually come to Concord California ... We´ll do everything in our power to stop it,` says @RepDeSaulnier of a proposed facility for nearly 50,000 immigrants in Concord, Calif. #immigration #ImmigrantChildren 10.06pm BST Reporter Patrick Timmons has an update on the chaos and confusion at a courthouse in El P ...