crossing attempts in the el paso region have surged ten-fold from previous years. our stations are not built for that group that s crossing today. reporter: immigrations and customs enforcement also overwhelmed. this week, bussing hundreds of migrants to a local el paso park and leaving them there. all this amidst a partial government shutdown in washington, fueled by president trump s refusal to sign a budget without money earmarked for some kind of border barrier. i can t tell you when the government s going to be open. i can tell you it s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they d like to call it. matt gutman joins us live now. the president saying today he will visit the border before the state of the union. this as homeland security announced new medical policies for migrant children at the border? reporter: that s right. homeland security seems to now acknowledge that its current system at the border with that historic influx of children isn t w
seemed like really unfortunate buck passing. take a look. our stations are not built for that group that is crossing today. they were built 30, 40 years ago for single adult males. we need a different approach. we need help from congress. we need to budget for medical care and mental health care and for children in our facilities. your view of that response and where congress does fit in? all i m hearing is that they want to fund more of our taxpayer dollars to hold children in detention for long periods of time. let s not forget under the obama administration, individuals seeking asylum would basically receive an ankle bracelet and a court date. 90% of the individuals would show up in court. instead trump administration is detaining families and processing them for a lot longer. the death of this child, he was in four different facilities. he unfortunately didn t receive medical care upon arrival at the
given what we have reported and the loss to these lives, this seemed like really unfortunate buck passing. take a look. our stations are not built for that group that is crossing today. they were built 30, 40 years ago for single adult males. we need a different approach. we need help from congress. we need to budget for medical care and mental health care and for children in our facilities. your view of that response and where congress does fit in? all i m hearing is that they want to fund more of our taxpayer dollars to hold children in detention for long periods of time. let s not forget under the obama administration, individuals seeking asylum would basically receive an ankle bracelet and a court date. 90% of the individuals would show up in court. instead trump administration is detaining families and processing them for a lot longer. the death of this child, he was
accurate timeline for what happened. can you walk folks through it? it s heartbreaking to read. you have the cpb s approach and their timeline of how this death, how this tragedy happened. well, you also have this morning is the commissioner talking about the need for updating their facilities along the border because they frankly are not prepared for what they are seeing. listen to how he had to say it. our stations are not built for that group that s crossing today. they were built 30, 40 years ago for single adult males, and we need a different approach. we need help from congress. reporter: hallie, in that same interview the head of the cpb there did say that they need the funding for the wall. he seemed to be with the president on the shutdown, hallie? thank you to both of you. stay close to keep us updated, but i don t think you ll see that many people on the hill today. shocking if we did.
to be revived. all right. julia ainsley working the story. thank you. keep us posted. abbie and doug and matt are back with us. the commissioner of customs and border protection now calling on congress to help with this as growing humanitarian crisis at the border. our stations are not built for that group that s crossing today. they were built 30, 40 years ago for single adult males. and we need a different approach. we need help from congress. we need to budget for medical care and health care, for children in our facilities. abbie, can congress help the situation and if so, what can they do? well, you know, i am not totally well versed on this front. what i can tell you is even though this is going to weigh on congress in this way. and it should on the president. we just got through with the