Now to the migrant crisis in the United States. There are reports the Navy plans to house as many as 25-thousand undocumented migrants. It's an effort to find detention facilities where children can stay with their parents. The move follows the reversal of a policy of separating families, as they arrive at the US border. CGTN's Toby Muse has more on this controversy.

Various protests were held Saturday to oppose the government's handling of the migrant crisis, especially the separation of child migrants from their families.

Some 2,300 children have been taken from families since May, and officials say about 500 have now been returned. Some fear it's even possible some children may never see their families again.

"We should not be separating children from their families, and now what we have we must return the children to their families. This is unconscionable. They're not thieves, they're not criminals. They're people who should not be incarcerated and their children should not be spending unlimited periods of time in prison."

Twenty-five Democratic lawmakers visited an immigration facility in McAllen, Texas, and left angry.

JIM HIMES DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN, CONNECTICUT "Something happened this morning that I will never forget. My colleagues from Connecticut, and four of us are here, approached one of these holding cells and there were just mounds of silver mylar. And we asked to speak to somebody who was there, and as they opened the door these twenty or thirty mounds of silver mylar became little girls. They stood up, they were scared, some had been crying."

After initially defending the policy, President Donald Trump reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep families illegally crossing the border together.

But much confusion has continued to surround the administration's immigration policy on its southern borders. Trump says the US will continue its zero tolerance policy of prosecuting all those who enter the country illegally with the aim of deterring more migrants from Central America from attempting to reach the US.

The Pentagon is drawing up plans to house up to 20,000 migrant children on military bases. Trump has blasted US immigration laws, calling them the "dumbest" and the worst".

TOBY MUSE CGTN "Republicans have been trying to push an immigration bill through congress, but division within their own party has kept them from getting enough votes to get one passed. Toby Muse, Washington."