behave myself. i ll be a good girl. but please come get me because i m alone. and, you know, she s here going through an asylum claim of her own and is in a legally precarious place, particularly now the aunt? the aunt. and so she s sort of at a loss of what to do and how to help. so she s still there, the six-year-old? the six-year-old is now in a shelter being run by health and human services, so she s out of the border patrol facility. i want to bring in now dr. alan shapiro. dr. shapiro is a pediatrician in and the cofounder of terra firma, a health care that provides justice for children. doctors, welcome to the program. you heard that awful audio, and i m so emotional. i hate to be this emotional because i want to get the story out. i don t want to detract from it. but the children that had been
you called the nerm and spoke to the child s aunt. what did she say? she talked about how terrifying it was for her to get a call from her 6-year-old niece, after having traveled a month from travel america through mexico, across the border. the little girl was crying and saying, you know, aunt, i ll behave myself, i ll be a good girl but please come get me because i m alone. and she s, you know she s we re going through an asylum claim after her own and is in a legally precarious place, particularly now the aunt? the aunt. she s at a loss of what to do and how to help. so she s still there? the 6-year-old. the 6-year-old is now in a shelter being run by health and human services. she s out of the border patrol
cameras. they ve not been able to talk to people who are detained in these facilities. so for the public, access to these facilities has been very controlled. we were able to focus on one kid in particular, a 6-year-old salvadoran girl. you were able to track down her family members in part because she it s a heartbreaking thing, that she s 6 years old, she s got this number memorized and that s essentially her lifeline to the outside world. are you able to tell us anything about her status? so, she apparently has been moved out of the border patrol facility where this recording was made and is now in a shelter that is run by health and human services, where she says that she has a bed, she s got good food. she still feels very alone. she s 6. she s 6. and authorities there have said to her that there s a chance her mother could be deported without her. so she s still quite
right? but i think that what we have seen is that the administration when it tries when it offers to take the public into these places those situations are very scripted, very controlled. so reporters have only been allowed in without cameras in most cases or very limited cameras. they ve not been able to talk to people who are detained in these facilities. so for the public access to these facilities has been very controlled. we were able to focus on one kid in particular, a 6-year-old salvadoran girl. you were able to track down her family members in part because she it s a heartbreaking thing, that she s 6 years old, she s got this number memorized and that s essentially her lifeline to the outside world. are you able to tell us anything about her status? so she apparently has been moved out of the border patrol facility where this recording was made and is now in a shelter that is run by health and human services, where she says that
when you have patients that are hiding in rugged terrain, it takes a while for an organized search to locate them, assess them and then bring them up to the highway here to be treated or to be placed into custody of the border patrol agency. last night two people were released from the hospital. now a total of 15 are in a local border patrol facility in the san diego area being processed. we are waiting to find out if these will be among the first people attempting to enter the country illegally who will be subject to the new department of justice order calling for zero tolerance. which means they could be prosecuted and potentially jailed before being deported. in the meantime a caravan of central americans is on its way to the us-mexico border with some looking purely to make a political statement. others looking to come across the border. often times paying coyotes and smugglers to get them in.