is. according to customs and border protection for the safety and security of the area. again is this all part of the plan to try to provide some relief to local officials calling on the federal government to do so? it appears to be. waiting to hear from officials about the flights for relief here. fred? all right. so reportedly haiti has said it will accept something like three flights a day but we are saying that it is yet to be confirmed whether the u.s. is actually putting in to motion flights for these haitian migrants to return to haiti? reporter: so a customs and border protection official tells my colleague that dhs is ramping up those expulsion flights and told cnn previously that one had already left on wednesday and that these flights were going to
along the border. nd and tonight nbc news has exclusively learned that active duty u.s. troops are stationed inside a border patrol holding facility in texas monitoring detainees despite past assurances that active duty troops would not be in direct contact with migrants. the u.s. military says the troops are not armed or acting as law enforcement. 17-year-old abner, a guatemalan migrant talks about conditions he encountered at a border. he described having nowhere to sleep for days giving his food to younger children so they wouldn t go hungry and seeing a guard punch a boy in the stomach. a customs and border protection official tells nbc news his claims are inconsistent with agency records of his time in custody. more challenges for a border in crisis. jeff bennett, nbc news washington. > rico is preparing for a transfer of power after the governor resigns following
they have, but also the shame we should have that they don t have diapers and toothbrushes and care. i ve said to the members, we have to have a country where every child knows that they are in their parents arms. literally or figuratively. we are the rmarms of these children. the white house has already threatened a veto if this bill passes. let s begin the hour with nick valencia. he s on the border where these awful conditions have been reported. let s start with, what more do you know about these kids being taken back to that facilit? we don t know when they were transferred or how long they ve been at this station. we know, though, according to a customs and border protection official, the decision was made because there was no longer a concern about overcrowding in this facility. last week, we reported along
were a year ago and even better than three months ago. very quickly, another customs and border protection official tells me this is the reason why congress must act and approve $4.6 million in emergency funding so kids aren t being held in conditions like this. nick valencia, thank you so much. let s talk to a member of congress about this. democratic congresswoman is with us. she is on the judiciary committee. congresswoman, you hear this report. i mean it s hard to hear the details of what these kids are facing. i m sorry, it really bothers me as a parent. but when you see this and also when you hear border patrol saying that they need this money, is that going to solve the problem? brianna, no. i mean it is so heart breaking and i think it is worse than unconscionable, if that s possible. and the problem is that these conditions have been there.
could address this crisis tomorrow. instead, we continue to do more with letsds. i have asked congress to please put politics aside and recognize this for the growing security and humanitarian crisis this is. some cases they are dropped off with no resources and nowhere to go. the volunteers here say they re stretched thin and that s what we re hearing as well from a customs and border protection official. he says they are bursting at the seams. they re not intended to hold so many people. originally they were built to house single adult males. influx in family units they re really struggling to keep their head above water. reporting in el paso, texas, i m nick valencia. the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio, says as many as 2 million people are expected to ring in the new year in times square in new york. the world celebrates, the city