the government itself, it s a heavy lift. especially given when cnn was allowed into the clint facility last month it was a sham. a official with firsthand knowledge telling cnn, the agency prepped for you guys adding it s a never ending cat and mouse game. the burden of proof on the administration. so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible it look at what s really happening inside. sper spective from the new acting director of citizen and immigration services. i want to talk about the facilities that we have been hearing so much about. did operators at the clint facility the new york times reporting know for months that these migrant kids had no beds? no ability to clean themselves and went hungry? that allegation was based not on only. also sworn statements.
2018 at the severe devil by dhs and secretary nielsen when she was the secretary spoke about it in 2018 and it took all the way until june to get some help particularly focused on the children with the recent small appropriations bill. that helped clear out a lot of the children taken down from about 2500 in these facilities. once they got in the case of the children the facilities that were appropriate for the numbers we re seeing, the problem was alleviat alleviated. before that, there was overcrowding and with security and care for the individuals because that s eating up a lot of manpower on the boarder. it seems like agents at the clint facility were raising red flags about it. you have the inspector general report about the client facint and another had the same issue
firsthand knowledge telling cnn the agency prepped for you guys adding quote it s a never ending cat and mouse game. given all that, the burden of proof would seem to be on administration but so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible to get a look at what is really happening inside these facilities. the new acting director of u.s. citizen and immigration services, i spoke to him earlier this evening. acting director, i want to talk about these facilities we ve been hearing so much about. did operators at the clint facility as the new york times reported know for months that these migrant kids had no beds, no ability to clean themselves and went hungry? because that allegation, you know, was based not only on inspection reports but also sworn statements from people who were at the facility. right. of course, folks in that position have their own incentives. i would say in these facilities, there has been overcrowding, which has been warned of since
we haven t seen before as thoroughly and that is border patrol agents themselves as sources and former border patrol agents as sources and we get a wider frame on the picture of who they are as human beings. they many of them seem very, very concerned about what is happening to those kids. sure. plenty of border patrol agents are neighbors, many of them joined the agency here in el paso and certainly many people in el paso know a border patrol agent or cbp agent and this reporting, yes, you ll see a little bit of take, if you will, of what a bp agent might tell their family member, what they might talk with their friends after work, simply what we re trying to do is relay the truth, trying to relay the story of what s going on in the clint facility. and the higher up commanders
absolutely critical. still, there have been reports that new york times, for example, reported that they did a deep dive into this clint facility, drew it out, they named the guy who runs it and quoted him as saying questionable things, he s known as an immigration hard-liner, and the facility was rejecting donations of diapers and food and other things. how do we, you know, maybe sure that the people running these facilities are doing it in a way not just with our values, but with our laws. that s what oversight is for. i think that that s what an inspect or general s report is for. of course, like anybody, i would rather see it not occurring, so we wouldn t have to hear about it, but we have to prevent going forward. that s the humanitarian aid is absolutely critical for.