for the 8-year-old felipe gomez. the mother is waiting for her child s remains. let s go to cnn s nick valencia at the bus station in el paso, texas where lots of action have been taken place. migrants are being dropped off. nick, we just learned that dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen is going there to the border on friday, and it seems like things are only getting worse. they are, dana. i talked to charities in the area, the influx that is happened here over the last week and they said her completely overwhelmed. they are not alone. a customs and border protection official tells me the facilities along the border aren t designed to help so many people. inside this makeshift shelter a handful of migrants, some more than just 500 released from border patrol custody. most don t want to talk on camera about what they have been through but one of the migrants agrees only if we don t show his fast.
several people detained there. we have video of you on the phone with the top customs and border protection official, what did commander watson tell you and were you able to get any answers? if not, why not? i was shocked at the level of chaos at the airport. the customs and border patrol were not able to give us any answers. we kept on asking them as two members of congress, we felt that we deserve to have an explanation of what was going on and how many people were being detained. what countries they were from. and commander watson just stone walled us. she said that she did not have authorization to talk to us. and she actually ultimately hung up on us. well, i guess nobody likes to get hung up on. congressman judy chu, thank you so very much. thank you.
that were held? what the executive order did is render those visas invalid. and the initial assessment by government lawyers last night was that the judge s ruling didn t change that, that if anybody wanted now to travel, they d have to go get new visas. well, we still haven t heard from the government on that point. however, it does appear that government officials have had a conference call with the airli industry and the airline industry has sent this notice to all of its stakeholders. it says that a customs and border protection official was on a conference call with the airlines and said that the state department has rescinded its revocations of visas. i know that s a double negative. but what that means is that if this is correct, that people who had visas before the order, they re valid again. so if somebody had a visa wanting to come to the u.s., went to the airport, couldn t get on the plane, now what that