WASHINGTON, D.C.: US Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday (Saturday in Manila), including a Border Patrol station where hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots.

Some of the men said they were hungry and had been held there for 40 days or longer. “Look, this is tough stuff,” Pence acknowledged.

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