is a long way to go. the department for education says more families than ever now have access to free school meals and they are providing over £15 billion of support to those hit hardest by rising costs. but teachers in england now urgently want to see the government go further. alice key, bbc news. earlier, my colleague annita mcveigh asked kate anstey from the child poverty action group about the scale of the problem and the cost of delivering school meals not only to children from families in receipt of universal credit, but to all children. there are about 1 there are about1 million children living below the poverty line who do not currently qualify for free school meals because that threshold is far too low, it is 7400 a year, so many working families who are living in poverty miss out. at child
7400 crossings every single day, that is an all-time record. over my shoulder here in del rio, obviously this is the border fence. we re not seeing a lot of activity here. but an hour here in rio pass, where the rio grande runs right through, you will see every single hour, every day, families trying to cross that river. see this video here, of two families from ecuador trying to do just that. earlier, cbp tried to warn them to go back as they could drown. they re 25 drownings just last month. we spoke to them and they did get on to the u.s. side. one man in his 17-year-old daughter and his wife, they just start crying in each other s arms. he said to me he could not believe he d have to risk his family s life and put them in that kind of danger. and they also joined up with another young mother, her daughter, who just turned three today. so much emotion, gratitude, and confusion about what comes next. that s just one anecdote, one story. there s another woman from columbia, she came
brock, on the border there in del rio texas for us. give me a sense of how folks there are reacting to all of this, sam. yeah, alex, good afternoon. there s no question for local law enforcement, this is a relief. they tell me they just don t have the resources to handle another surge on top of the stream of migrants that they re already seeing here. alex, we are at the point right now that, according to border control, there s about 7400 crossings per day to give you some perspective on that if you listen to jay johnson years ago, during the obama administration, isa safe we ve got 2000 a day that would be problematic. this is seven times. that dhs right now as model this out, alex, scenarios in which you are looking at 10, 000, 12, 000, 14, 000, potentially up to 18,000 crossing today. so we are smashing records left and. right now on the flip side of, that i did speak with some folks coming from cuba, and ecuador, venezuela, they are begging, pleading with the biden administration
julian s point ef1 judge right now in western louisiana that has dictated effectively immigration policy for the country until further notice. course the biden ministration has appeal this ruling. over mitchell to we are looking at a course as a border wall, here in del rio. about an hour away from where we are in eagle pass, that is where the rio grande runs right through. and i can tell you, yasmin, every hour, every day, unabated you are watching families on the river trying to cross. and this is going on right now with title 42 in effect. it is so region graces point. some 7400 crossings per day. according to portable troll, that is a record 1.7 million encounters in 2021. that was a record, yasmin, we are on pace right now to smash that for fiscal year 2022. according to so these numbers continue to rise with title 42 in. places but listen families, you ll see some video there that are crossing in hugging each other, after a two month long journey from ecuador. and i can tell yo
going to be unduly hard in a public health, way if you look at the measures they ve taken. they say that they would be impacted by a lot of migration coming in all it once. now, you have to point out the fact that we are already in a surge of migration over 7400 migrants crossing per day. they expect that to go up to about ten or 12,000 a day, when title 42 would eventually left. right now, it is definitely delay because just summer haze hasn t put an end in that injunction. he wants to hear this case based on the merits. but because of that, appeal we can expect this to then be kept up to an appeals level, and taken out of his courtroom. so, julia, i think that it is really important point because this legal process could drag on for a while, and let s just say would judge summer haze has ruled has to stand. advising content period you go on for months, it could go on for years, correct? that s right. i mean, eventually you would