assessing you from a perspective of where are you know, looking at the outside. so it is different than seeing the young children who per harps don t have that consciousness. and, katy, can you talk specifically about what you just addressed and specifically as it relates to girls? because up until now reporters have been been in a facility that houses any of the girls that have been separatesed from their parents or that have crossed over as unaccompanied minors. can you talk about what you swau these young women, these girls, these teens, their facilities and i know it s always tough to characterize morale or mood in a quantity final way, but if you could share some of your impression, i would be grateful. reporter: sure. we did see girls for the first time and many of them were wearing pink t-shirts so you can see them moving in orderly lines moving across this campus facility. i think most of them appeared to be pretty reserved, perhaps a
about 400 girls. they are kept very separate inside this facility, different dorms, different classrooms, they don t actually eat together. but. i want you i m going to disrupt you, your microphone probably our sprurs probably our viewers are notici has a weird buzz. this san important look, there are girls in this facility. what i want to get from katy ty is the breakdown of numbers, how many of the children are been in there and how many have been separate frod their families and maybe part of these 2,300 plus kids that we know about. when we talk about detention facilities, betsy, we understand the military maybe noufg how s more unaccompanied kids on maile military bases, right? exactly. that s something that has advocates deeply concerned. generally under the flores settlement the unaccompanied children are supposed to be housed in facilities that are license. it strikes me extremely unlikely that the state of texas or nx or
arizona is going to get their licensure operation in place quickly enough to have involvement over the way these children are how sed the that s something that deeply concerned advocates. just the increased militarization of this process is something that has generated criticism. we ve seen defense contractors get involved in working with the nonproftsd that have be nonprofits. general dynamics that contract with the pentagon and the intelligence community are part of this work. i understand we have fixed katy s microphone and i think you re back with us. you were talking through what you saw and i want to turn it over to you to fill us in. this is a facility that is for teenagers both girls and boys between the ages of 13 and 17. they both are in the facility but kept separate at all times. so they do not dine together, they do not sleep in the same dorm floors together. they re kept very separate. this facility does appear to be