Transcript for El Paso overwhelmed with migrants

And that’s taking of the border issue of the Homeland Security secretary Kristine Nielsen has been down to the border several times and she’s making another trip down there as. Well he plans to stops one of them. Includes. Facility holding facility city that seems to be overrun right there in Texas back up my. Joining this us with the very early as this from LA Matt. Again his that’s right secretary of Homeland Security cures to Nielsen. We’ll travel to the El Paso area today not just that area alone has seen a ten fold increase in migrant families. Crossing the border now apparently they’re just. Crossing the border surrendering to local authorities and because they’ve coming in such enormous numbers. They have overwhelmed. Local US authorities there including customs and Border Patrol. And immigration and customs enforcement in what we’re seeing right now. Gays that ice specifically has been so inundated. Doesn’t have the capacity to house these migrants. And because a local courts in US courts have dictated that children with families cannot be held for longer than twenty days they’ve had to release and so what they’re doing now. Is just dropping them off in the center of El Paso we’ve seen them. In city parks. And outside bus stations in a case is this week they have a bomb dropped off people at those bus stations the local police have been called to try to sort things out. They’ve left 16100. People in downtown El Paso. Local shelters are crying out thing you can’t do that you can’t lead people during Christmas week out in the middle the streets in the cold they’ve got to be cared for but. Those local church groups and shelters have been typically caring for migrants. Are all so overwhelmed they don’t have any bed spaces left. They’re running out of resource is the volunteers. Or exhausted what they’ve begun to do was put these migrants up in hotels around the area just to give them a shelter and temporary place to stay. Eight is a crisis that obviously everybody’s talking about. Om and sector Nielsen is also talking about. Increasing medical care and reassessing the medical programs for specifically children under ten that might be susceptible to you flew arms and that is what we believe those two children have died for now we heard from the first time. From the mother of that eight year old boy for the big Gomez Alonso he’s also from Guatemala like armed seven year old Jacqueline who died three weeks ago. She is saying that when he left home he was healthy and when he crossed the border she believed he was healthy now one thing it’s very interesting about what she said. They crossed fort economic opportunity they were specifically fleeing. Violence this family she also said that the reason her husband chose to go now and bring their son with them. It’s because that essentially they were told there is opportunity if you bring a family member a child it is easier to cross and that’s what indeed happened. I’m obviously nobody could of four seen. That that. Young boy would have died just after six days after being detained by Customs and Border Protection. That is also being investigated not only by Customs and Border Protection. But also the Judiciary Committee also plans to had a hearing about that in the coming weeks in the new year can this. To him that he did get a sense that there is sort of the beginning if it’s not already there of the humanitarian crisis. On our southern border that is taking place.

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