we weren t able to get more than a gallon of milk at the grocery store, and that lasts about a day. reporter: now julie is getting help from a program called meals to you. inside this warehouse, you have stacks and stacks of food, including juice boxes, different types of cereals. and when you add it all up, you re talking about millions of meals going to families all across the country every week. the program began before the pandemic, spearheaded by baylor university and the usda, feeding about 4,000 rural kids a year. now, they re shipping meals to hungry families in 38 states. right now, the program is going to get about 500,000 children in, is our expectation. reporter: we were there when julie and her family got their latest delivery. that s two weeks of food. thank you! animal crackers. this whole program has been a huge blessing for our family. it s been a game-changer. reporter: if all this food sounds pretty good to you, all you have to do is contact your
separated, you know, as you said before. so it s not new. the problem is that dhs and border patrol have never actually tried to make, you know, the problem go away by actually providing the right, you know, places for children to be at without being in the hands of border patrol in these places that are really cold and terrible or, you know, being in facilities where they can actually be treated as children. well, what grabbed me was the portrait of a kid standing on a toilet to try to get fresh air because the room was so crowded he had to get above the crowd of people around him jammed into this situation. that s right. to breathe. that s right. yes, and if people want to actually look up i mean, there s actually photos on social media and on the web of something called an ice box which is a border patrol processing center. literally tiny jail cells where they crowd tons and tons of people, but them in there with some foil blankets on them. they re super cold. that s the r
juice boxes? this is just about a third grade level what he s doing here. jonathan, in washington i don t know what kind of talk this engendered, the tit for tat but at its bigger than that. i think to a lot of people nancy pelosi can truly outmaneuver the president. he has no team around him and seemingly no sense of strategy. they went into this shutdown fight without a clear plan. and to the, te extent to which had a plan, it was based on a misreading of nancy pelosi. some of them didn t share this view but i would say a majority view from the conversations i ve had was that they believed she was politically ham strung before her speaker s vote in january and they thought, okay, she can t deal until that, she s under all this pressure and then after the vote the rivers will
and nobody seemed to care. because it s like it s just a bunch of illegals, who cares if they re put into ice boxes. now it s happening to children who don t have the resistance to survive being put into the refrigerator for days. they just don t. john kelly was part of the decision making architecture to reduce the number of refugees we are taking into the united states. we are doing this at a time when the global population of refugees has doubled over the last six years. so when you don t allow people to come in, when you cut the number of legal immigrants which is another john kelly thing, what s that going to do? not being held for asylum in mexico versus the united states. correct. illegally in my view you turn them down for asylum applications when they go through points of entry here. show up, knock on the door, can
journey, which we know the train, the rape, the whatever, what surprised me in my many years is when they ll say, all of that was really hard. but the most traumatic stuff happened once we crossed into the united states. we were taken by immigration officials whether they re border patrol or i.c.e. we re put into refrigerators, ice boxes. this is why children are dying. adults, we have the resistance to be put into the room that is who knows what temperature. they re going to say it s to keep it sanitary, but it s a form of hygiene. they re saying they don t have water. so the trauma is happening here in this country. they re able to survive that trip, but when they get here, when they when they need the medical care, when they re asking for it and it s denied but not only denied can i just say it again. i have been reporting on this for years upon years upon years.