Trump: I want journalists to go to detention centers for migrants

President TrumpDonald John Trump Democratic Senator: The White House has "used cruelty to children" as a tool of Amash immigration policy: "High-level" Republicans have thanked privately for supporting the Impeachment of Trump. people in poverty MORE Last Sunday, he asked journalists to visit the detention centers of migrants on the southern border.

When asked if he would visit Customs and Border Protection in Clint, Texas, which has been the subject of numerous reports, Trump responded: from these detention centers … to the press, "according to CNN.

"I want the press to go see them," Trump added. "We are going to send people, we are going to bring some of the press."

Trump also tweeted on Sunday that the media was reporting "fictitious and exaggerated accounts" of poor conditions in detention centers at the border.

Several media, including CNN, visited Clint's office last month.

The visit was triggered after a group of lawyers who visited said they found the overcrowding, filth and mistreatment of migrants detained there.

Trump's comments also come a week after a delegation of 14 Democrats visited two facilities in Texas, including one in Clint, expressing outrage and describing inhumane conditions.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security recently released two reports detailing the conditions in El Paso (Texas) and Rio Grande (Texas).

The government's monitoring body has found severe overpopulation, migrants withheld too long and difficult conditions in many facilities.