Video Shows Staff Abusing Children at Border.
HILL: Disturbing new video emerging that shows staffers pushing and dragging migrant children at a facility in Arizona. The video coming to light as the likely chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee vows to hold hearings on the deaths of two Guatemalan children. Those children, of course, died while in U.S. custody earlier this month. CNN's Dianne Gallagher is live in Arizona with more for us. Dianne, good morning.</s>DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Erica. And yes, we're going to show this video. I want to warn you what happened here in the Hacienda del Sol, which is now closed down, may be upsetting, what you're going to see on this video, to some of you out there, because it shows what appear to be workers abusing children. They are dragging the children. They are pushing them, angrily confronting them. These videos, which were obtained by "The Arizona Republic" through an open records request, were blurred and edited by the state Department of Health here in Arizona. But it appears that around the same time these were published, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office announced that it was going to turn the case over, this investigation, which apparently happened back in September, over to the county attorney's office, to determine whether or not criminal charges need to be placed here, if -- whether or not they need to bring criminal charges. Now, initially, when we had reported this back in October, they'd said they didn't think it rose to the occasion. But through the investigation, they found additional evidence, and now they want the attorney to weigh in. Now, this is a Southwest Key facility. It is now shut down. We reached out to Southwest Key. They referred us to a statement that they sent us back in October, when we originally reported on this, where they basically said that they were -- they were looking forward to working with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Refugee and Resettlement. They welcomed investigations, and that they are engaging in child welfare consulting programs to make sure that everything was on the up and up. But a source close to the way that things were handled after the situation tells CNN that at least two staffers were fired after this, and that they -- after this was shut down, they continued to work on what's happening here in Arizona. Of course, Alisyn, this comes as there is continued discussions about what happened to those two migrant children who died as they came across the border, in U.S. custody. And of course, as Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, who is likely going to be the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says that he would like to have hearings on that as soon as he can possibly do that when the new year comes.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, sounds like they will get right on that. Dianne, thank you very much for all of that reporting. Joining us now is outgoing Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo of Florida. Good morning, Congressman.</s>REP. CARLOS CURBELO (R), FLORIDA: Alisyn, good morning. It's good to be with you.</s>CAMEROTA: Happy new year to you. When you see that video of those kids, those -- those children in custody there, being physically mistreated, as well as we know that these two children who have died in custody, clearly the system is not working. That's not a news flash. We all know that the system for asylum seekers is not working. President Trump had a theory on what's broken. He tweeted, "Any deaths of children or others at the border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek, thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can't. If we had a wall, they wouldn't even try." What do you think about the president casting blame in that way?</s>CURBELO: Well, that's a true shame, Alisyn. And one can only hope -- and I truly believe that these are isolated incidents. I visited some of these facilities in South Florida and happy to say that the children there were being treated with great care. However, this does need to be looked into. And rather than dehumanizing these children and trying to assign blame summarily, whether it's to Democrats, or Democrats trying to blame the administration, we do need to find out what's going on. And more broadly, we do need to reform our asylum policies in this country. We put an immigration bill on the floor just a few months ago that provided a solution for about two million DACA recipients; increased border security; and also reformed our asylum laws, because although we must be a compassionate and caring nation, I also understand that the United States cannot be the orphanage for all of the poor children in the world.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes.</s>CURBELO: So we need to find that healthy balance. And we do need to do our best to treat the children who are in our custody as best as possible.</s>CAMEROTA: But I mean, as a Republican, from where you sit, though there's a Republican in the White House and, as we know, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, do the Democrats deserve some blame for how broken this is?</s>CURBELO: Well, I think everybody deserves blame to the extent that we haven't reached an agreement, Alisyn. Our government is designed for dialogue and compromise. And that's why we put together a bill that had wins for Republicans; for Democrats; for those that want more border security; for those who are sympathetic to the DACA population, who want to see them have a permanent future in our country. That's what we need. And right now, I mean, you see what's happening. It's sad. The government is shut down in this country, and it seems like our political leadership, nobody cares. It doesn't make a difference to anyone. During previous shutdowns you had people over at the Obama White House around the clock, trying to reach an agreement, at least having conversations. Now, we're not even talking. And that's just a shame. And it shows how far our politics have fallen in this country.</s>CAMEROTA: Well, look the president is very dug in on his demand for $5 billion for a wall. And I'm just wondering. As a member of Congress, as a Republican, can you define the president's wall? Do you know this morning exactly what that looks like? How long it is? How high it is? What it's made of?</s>CURBELO: Well, I think that's part of the problem, that no one knows exactly what it is he would agree to. Now, I do know that the solution is somewhere in the middle. I think most Americans do want to see more border security. Most Americans do understand there's a lot of human trafficking and drug trafficking at the southwest border. I think we would all like to see that diminished. And then, I think most Americans also want to see us reform our immigration system in a compassionate way. And of course, you had Senator Graham on your air yesterday articulating this. There must be a compromise, and that compromise does include, or should include the DACA population. In our bill, we had 2 million young immigrants who were brought to this country as children, who grew up here, who are working here, haven't broken any laws. They're paying taxes.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes.</s>CURBELO: Let's give them a path to a permanent future in this country. Pair that with border security. It's a very neat, elegant, symmetrical compromise. That's where the answer is. If Congress is going to succeed, the next Congress, 116th Congress, in breaking this stalemate, it's going to be by compromising, not by digging in. And obviously, leadership starts at the top, and the president has to be the first one --