and anderson, this right here, this is a picture from the dhsig report that i showed vice president pence as he touted the conditions at the first facility we vichted today. showed him this and i said it doesn t align this owe with this picture from the report. this picture is from may. what i can tell you anderson and see the situation of overcrowding particularly with family units has gotten a lot better because of the supplementing funding from congress, cbp was able to move out a lot of the children held for over 72 hours into the other facilities. and so we didn t really get to see what sort of the height of the problem because of that also border crossings are down because of the heat, because mexico is helping more. that said we did see tremendous overcrowding at this facility where i am now with the single adults. and i spoke to a cbp chief about what i heard from many of them inside of there. you showed the video. he did say that just yesterday the day before the vice
to that saying he seen pledty of dead children on the job telling the committee they quote died at the hands of people that crossed the border because we have an open border. there is shouting on all sides of this issue and border and we ve seen so far caged kids and overcrowded cells and families being separated. what we haven t seen is real effort to come up with a comprehensive policy that can once and for all address this issue that continues to divide families and divide this country. before getting to what the vice president had to say to pamela brown in a facility today, i want to show you some of the video that she took on her cell phone at the adult detention facility in mcallen. it s crowded and men are wearing dirty clothes, the spench we re told horrib stench horrible. pam tells us what she saw in the interview. pam. reporter: anderson, i m here in mcallen texas in a facility that holds single adults and i
constructed because this facility is overcrowded. and we can t keep people in a cell beyond what the rules and regulations allow for but everyone even in that temporary facility, pamela, is getting three meals a day, health care, they are getting hygiene and the customs and border protection is doing their levelled best in an over corrocrowded environment t address this issue but congress has got to act to make it possible for us to reduce the numbers of people coming into our country illegally and that s going to require us to change the loopholes, reform our asylum laws and my hope is today that two things, i hope two things today, pamela. i hope first and foremost that we put to the lie this slander against customs and border protection. i mean, people saying that the families and children are being held in concentration camps is an outrage. the nazis killed people.
allegations. but make no mistake about it, any allegation of people not receiving the standard of care that the american people anticipate is thoroughly investigated. the recent allegations of abuse are being thoroughly investigated. but what you saw today, i hope is an encouragement to millions of americans. that that even before congress funded a temporary facility we built that temporary facility to house families who are caught up in in crisis of illegal immigration. and you saw not just three meals a day, children with snacks, there were diapers. there were hygiene products, changing tables. children sitting in a comfortable air-conditioned environment. watching tchgs, this is how the american people expect us to treat people who are caught up in this crisis. and we re going to continue to work to make that the reality.
to make that a reality. and anderson, this right here, this is a picture from the dhs ig report i showed vice president pence as he toted the conditions. i said it doesn t align with this picture from the report. this picture is from may. what i can tell you is that the situation of overcrowding with family units has gotten a lot better because of the supplem t supplementing funding from congress. they moved the children held for over 72 hours into these other facilities. we didn t get to see the height of the problem because of that and border crossings are down because of the heat and because mexico is helping more. that said, we saw tremendous overcrowding at this facility where i am now with these single adults and i spoke to a cbp chief what i heard from many of