more about this 15-year-old and some of the other incidents that were in these incident reports. she was a young woman, 15 at the time. she s 16 now. and once she was transferred from the border patrol station, she sat down with a case manager, not immediately, but weeks after she was in hhs custody and decided she wanted to tell her story. you read the sickening details about what she alleges happened to her in border patrol custody. and dhs has said they re inspecting this incident. and it certainly isn t the only incident that julia and i discovered in going through dozens of significant incident reports that come of these border patrol stations, including retaliation for young
redeployed into our border patrol stations again to help deal with the front line of this ongoing bill: i believe you will agree that that number is 6,000? it is somewhere there about. i don t know it to be that high right now. but they are performing a critical function, for example, mobile surveillance camera is a technology that we have. our agents deal with the criminal element that we are still having to manage, all the while dealing with this ongoing humanitarian challenge. there are alien smuggling organizations that continue to exploit these loopholes by way of moving these incredibly vulnerable populations, particularly children, through our borders. they are using children as virtual passports, and at times, even recycling them. other criminal elements. gang members, smugglers, that we absolutely need to deal with on
children drawing themselves in what look like cages. nick valencia has been covering it all. he joins us live from the border in el paso. nick, we re hearing now very publicly from the sitting dhs secretary, but you re also talking to sitting border agents who have their own concerns. reporter: we are. and i want to get to those tweets initially. they are significant, the fact that the acting dhs secretary is weighing in. what is unclear to us at this time, though, is what he s talking about. what is clear to us is that customs and border protection had already handed over these allegations about this social media post set to feature current and former members making lewd comments, derogatory, inflammatory statements. they they d already handed that over to the office of the inspector general. it s unclear what kind of investigation the acting secretary is calling for. also, bigger question is why isn t he calling into an investigation of the conditions into these border patrol stat
to the united states from center america as well as children being separated from their families. these border patrol stations are dealing with very young kids and are not equipped with the kinds of things you might imagine they would need to handle toddlers. o onesies, diapers. et cetera. we ve been trying to keep our focus on how the kids are doing and let politicians indo what ty do. fair point. you ve been reporting on the way customs and border protection has been scrambling to deal with this and the fact that children are being separated from aunts, uncles and other relatives they come over with. under u.s. law if you come over with a grandmother, grandfather, anyone who is not your biological parent you have to go to health and human services and then they do a
so they all almost all of them had telephone numbers, at least the ones that were verbal. they were basically trying to bring their families together. they were separated from their families at the border. some of the family members were parents. we had one family where the father, the mother and the sister were taken in one direction and this little girl, who was probably about second grade, was taken in another direction. she didn t want to go with the border patrol and she was very upset and her father came to her and said, honey, it s okay, they re going to take you to a place that s better for children and they, in fact, took her to the clint border patrol facility. so basically you ve got children coming across the border with relatives, being taken away from the relatives. they re supposed to go to border patrol to be processed and then within a matter of hours, because border patrol stations are notoriously horrendous places, they re supposed to be transported into orr custod