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For Thursday's visit, Melania Trump wore white linen pants, a fitted black top and white sneakers, according to pool reports. She was wearing Christian Louboutin flats – and no jacket – when she left Joint Base Andrews outside Washington earlier Thursday.

In the roundtable portion of her visit with U.S. Marshals, border patrol agents and local ranchers, the participants mostly focused on the daily difficulties with handling enforcement and apprehensions and less on the issue of family separations that occurred under the administration’s \"zero tolerance\" policy.

“I know how dangerous and difficult your daily jobs are so I really appreciate all you do for in the behalf of the country,” Mrs. Trump said in her prepared remarks. “And I'm looking forward to our discussion and to tour the facility and I'm here to support you and give my help whatever I can for behalf of children and the families.”

Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch for the TCA Border Patrol sought to push back on the characterization of DHS agents as heartless in carrying out arrests and detentions on the border. He said the Tucson unit apprehends on average “about 150 immigration violators per day,” and they’ve already surpassed last year’s apprehensions total of 38,000.

“I know that some of the men and women who work in DHS have been characterized as maybe cruel, heartless, that is not the case,” Karisch said. “You're going to see first-hand today of the amount of care that goes into the families, the children of the people that we encounter here.”

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PHOTO: First lady Melania Trump looks at photos of an abandoned 6-year-old Costa Rican boy found in the desert recently during visit to the Tucson Sector office of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Mike Humphries, who runs the Office of Field Operations, said that “just a couple” of families were separated under the Tucson border patrol’s watch and insisted “they are very short separations.” He said the brunt of children who are actually under the TCA Border Patrol’s care are unaccompanied minors.

The first lady then asked how often they see children crossing alone without an adult, and Humphries said there have been 1,100 unaccompanied minors who have entered through Arizona ports of entry since Oct. 1, 2017.

In a separate trip to a processing facility where officials say migrants are held short-term - up to 72 hours - the first lady toured what reporters said was a cinderblock room with multiple cells - one labeled “family unit” and another “juveniles”.

The rooms had jail-cell-like qualities - benches and a toilet, large glass windows, reports said. Ledges on the cell walls were lined with paper cups filled with individual, disposable wet towels. The doors of the rooms were open, which the agents said is always the case for juveniles.

There is a cart outside of the rooms filled with snacks - applesauce, cheese crackers, and juice boxes which were told are accessible 24/7, reports said.

Six young boys sat on small chairs outside of the rooms, watching the cartoon movie \"Ferdinand\" which was playing in Spanish and with Spanish subtitles on a tv mounted on the wall. At one point we heard a high pitched cry from the room labeled “family unit”.

The White House said the center currently held 10 kids, all males, ages 14 – 17 and a mother with a 3-year-old son – from Guatemala & Honduras.

Reporters with the first lady never saw her interact with children and no photos of the children's faces were allowed.

ABC's Lauren Pearle and Justin Doom contributed reporting to this article.

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