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
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 custody. the office of refugee resettlement wasn t assigning these children to a placement quickly enough to be reunited with their families. so, really, that s where the breakdown is. it s not so much with the border patrol, it s really with orr not comi