force that they can respond to kids in crisis or who need help and i want to make sure that we put the well being and welfare of those kids before we put any other concerns. >> rick: william is live in los angeles with the latest on this. william? >> rick, what i'm told by agents in the field yesterday and this morning is this system right now simply cannot handle the overwhelming number of central american immigrants flooding the border especially families. 7,000 apprehended last november. 25,000 apprehended last month and because of that, the border patrol and ice are forced to shift migrants from place to place or drop them off at a bus station like this one in el paso. more than 400 released sunday and monday because, again, there's nowhere to put them. the case of this 8-year-old felipe alonzo-gomez i'm told illustrates the problem. here's the timeline. agents apprehended this boy and his father near el paso last tuesday, december 18th. they were processed, given food and water.