them wanting to come to the border. here between san diego and taiwan, we have to border barriers. this is the first one. and behind me you can see a camp of migrants. migrants have never camped out here. up on top of that hill is a second border fence. so what migrants are doing, they re jumping over that first fence and coming to camp out here, waiting for border control agents to apprehend them so they can request asylum. there are some humanitarian activists here behind me that are giving food and water, to some of the migrants. they re waiting for the border patrol agents taken to the processing stations, the processing facilities. because those are overwhelmed, according to local border patrol officers, they can t fit anymore migrants there. so some of these individuals have to wait here for 24 hours, or even 48 hours. we ve had conversations with some of them, and also some of the activists that have arrived. here s part the conversation that we had with him. it is very diffic
lot of people are experiencing here right. now you can see some of the people, they were up here at the grassy, area they ve now since come. down lining up there was you can see a cbp officer talking to one of them. we can t really hear right now what they re saying, but it appears that they re trying to lineup, which may be a sign that the vehicle is going to come and take another group to processing. we know all the processing facilities here in san diego are at capacity. so where they go and what the process looks like we don t know at this point. but again, people are waiting for. our some four days. just to be picked, up that is the goal because italy starts the process for them to get some sort of services. , yasmin it puts things in perspective, doesn t? it also thinking about the desperation that man fell traveling for a month and a half with his four young children to seek asylum here in the united states. he was actually leaving behind and fleeing let me ask you, quickl
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i want to bring in julia ainsley who originally broke this story for nbc news. julia, a little bit more information about the fact that they re active duty, they will be there momentarily. this isn t a long-term mission here. but we did hear secretary mayorkas just tell chuck todd, we need resources. is this the answer to that? it s not the full answer. it s not what secretary mayorkas wants and it s not dhs has told the white house they need. as we reported last week, dhs says they re in the hole $3 billion. that s more money they want to cbp and to ice like building new processing centers, moving migrants from one place to another. they worry without that funding, they re going to have massive backlogs and those processing facilities and they may have to release some migrants on the streets before shelters are ready and equipped to take them in. we ve also spoken to a lot of local officials who say they still need money to be paid back to them by the federal government for what the