other members of the house came to tour this facility. we did the same. i went inside and i ll be frank with you. it is a de facto prison. it is a holding area. it is a pen. you have the 12-foot change linked pens holding families. if it is a father, it is a large pen. if it is a mother, they are in a different large pen. there are almost 600 unaccompanied minors held in the facility at this point. that number changes all the time. they are moving people in and out. this is a processing facility. they are supposed to be here for 72 hours. some of the people i talked to in here, they were here for four ore days. that does vary. when i talked to border patrol, they said the zero tolerance policy is requiring more paper work because of prosecution. things we were not doing before. there is more paper work.
other members of the house came to tour this facility. we did the same. i went inside and i ll be frank with you. it is a de facto prison. it is a holder area. it is a pen. you have the 12-foot change linked pens holding families. if it is a father, it is a large pen. there are 600 unaccompanied minors held in the facility. that number changes all the time. they are moving people in and out. this is a processing facility. they are supposed to be here for 72 hours. some of the people i talked to in here, they were here for four or five days. thats does vary. when i talked to border patrol, they said the zero tolerance policy is requiring more paper work because of prosecution. things we were not doing before. there is more paper work.