Transcript for US agencies overwhelmed at border spot Trump plans to visit
President trump will be in McAllen, Texas, minutes from the busiest area. Matt Gutman has been on the ground there speaking wit those officers who patrol that border but, Matt, not everyone there wants this wall. Reporter: That’s right, Cecilia. We spent the day with the border patrol chief who will brief the president and took us to what he said is the busiest spot along the entirety of the border, a spot where he says hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers pour in every day, a process that seemed routine on both sides. We make sure they’re seen by medical professionals and give them some dry clothes, give them a meal, if they need to bathe. Reporter: With U.S. Agencies overwhelmed here in the Rio grande valley that means these migrants will likely be released into the U.S. With a notice to appear in court at some point in the future. Is that what the president calls catch and release. If there was detention space for a mother and a child at a family residential center, we will make that call first but if there’s not a desense space they will put an ankle bracelet or some sort of monitoring device and they will ultimately be released. Reporter: Raul Ortiz is the acting chief of the sector. He is the man who will brief the president today. The smugglers delivering migrants in raft after raft. Carrying that raft back up. The border patrol helping these women and children up the steep embankment. So many surrendering we struggled to keep up. In the last maybe six minutes we’ve been here, I don’t know how many you counted but it’s like, what, 15? About 15 individuals. Reporter: They don’t come with anything. They don’t have bags. The smugglers will take everything from them. Reporter: Nearly 700 asylum seekers come through this area every day. A record 25,000 families crossed from Mexico just last month, something the president is calling a humanitarian crisis. It took little crystal and her mother a month to get here from Honduras. 1500 miles away. She tells me she got to bring only one thing. That Barbie. These people have been traveling months to get here. We get our border security mission and humanitarian mission which this would fall into that humanitarian mission category. Reporter: Now, Cecilia, the border patrol tells us they will ask for much more of this steel fencing in the Rio grande something that local politicians here have told us they don’t want and don’t actually need. Now, it’s important to note that that border patrol chief and all border patrol agents are now not being paid, in fact, the border patrol union is now suing the federal government. Cecilia. They indeed are. Thank you. Michael.
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