saying their kids have been taken from them, on top of that they are escaping indescribable conditions. and he simply can't respond to any of that and it ends up on the public defender shoulders. >> all right. stay with me. jacob soboroff has arrived in mcallen. i know that the rio grande valley sector chief patrol agent will be having a news conference. to tao meut whais expected to be discussed. >> reporter: essentially this is the epicenter of all family separations along the southern border. the rio grande valley sector sees more apprehensions than any other border patrol sector. the vast majority of them as a matter of fact. so we'll hear from manuel padilla padilla, the chief of the sector. he told the "washington post" that there were about a quarter of all of the apprehensions -- sorry, family separations i