along the existing border fences. we apprehended more people than we have in many, many years. we ve gotten wit with the wae wouldn t have to apprehend them. it s costing us a lot of money. arthel: we have live fox news team coverage with garrett tenney following the latest political developments from the nation s capital. we begin with jeff paul live from the west coast bureau with more on what s happening at the border. jeff. reporter: they are working to understand where the gaps in protection are and what dhs specifically needs. so far, they visited a national guard mission that s in new mexico, just across from texas. they re being briefed an checking out border patrol s mobile surveillance vehicles, horses and we podges. it was at this weapons. it was at this location where they fired off some version of a pepper ball gun. border patrol says the barrier at this site went up in 2008 and
this is pepper spray. we have got the stream which is used on individuals. and then we ve got the fogger which we have to fog spaces like seg cells or things like that. next weapons system is a pepper ball gun. it actually fires a .67 caliber pepper ball and we can use this to shoot off the walls and fog an area if we can t get directly to the offender or if they re out of the range of the spray. this is similar to the tear gas you see police use where if there s a large area that they need to affect, to move people back or control their movement, this is what we are going to employ. finally this is a riot control weapon. it fires a .37 millimeter wooden baton round. the round is fired at the floor, skipped into the offenders legs. it s designed to discourage offenders from doing what they re doing and get them to move back. unfortunately for staff,
you know that, don t you? he is. this is his last try. his last time, last time. the safety and security is my main priority. and it s the officers main priority. everything else is second. what happens when an offender does get like that, you have to snap it off at the hilt. because the other offenders will see that and they ll start acting the same. it s like a fire. we re searching for compliance out of them one way or another. we will get compliance. understanding the mood swings of juvenile offenders is one of the challenges for staff. just an hour after this intense scene, the calm teen talks freely with guards. while officers are trained to keep staff and offenders safe, reinforcement is close by in the rare case of an emergency. once we get past the point of physical force, we move into chemical weapons. this is pepper spray. we have got the stream which is used on individuals. and then we ve got the fogger which we have to fog spaces like seg cells or things like that
and then we ve got the fogger which we have to fog spaces like seg cells or things like that. the next weapon system is a pepper ball gun. it fires a 57 caliber pepper ball. we can shoot off the walls and fog an area if we didn t get to an offender. this is similar to the tear gas you see police use. where if there s a large area they need to effect to move people back and control the movement, this is what we re going to employ. and finally this is actually a riot control weapon. it fires a wood baton round. it s skipped into the offenders legs. it is designed to discourage offenders from doing what they re doing and get them to move back. unfortunately for staff, they re not the only ones armed. door violation.
intensive management, where extreme measures are required when dealing with inmates. these men are only allowed one 20-minute shower every other day and one hour of exercise a week, alone, in a small, concrete yard. sandbags are used to prevent inmates from flooding the cells with the water from their sinks or toilets. shields are required to protect officers while serving meals. signs designate certain inmates as spitters or slimers, those who throw urine or feces at officers. we had an incident not too long ago, where the inmate reached out through the cuff port, stabbed one of our staff, one of our officers. so now whenever the cuff port comes down, the staff will always put the shield in front of the cuff port to make sure no foreign object comes out of the cell to hurt our staff. should an assault occur, officers are armed with an arsenal of pepper spray, a pepper ball gun, and, if necessary, lethal power.