the capacity to take in some 672 undocumented immigrants, and immigration and customs enforcement owe fishes tell us they expect a whole lot more to arrive. we ve learned that here they get to stay in what you might consider dorm rooms. they re provided with food and with clothing. they have access to a refrigerator, other snacks, other kind of everyday creature comforts, meant to feel more or less sort of like a normal life inside the confines of a campus-like setting. children get to play outside. they are bringing in teachers to help educate the children, which is a requirement by federal law. we anticipate seeing when we get a chance to tour the facility a much different scenario than what it we have seen inside texas, the crammed and overwhelmed holding and processing centers. this is only meant to be temporary, these undocumented immigrants can only stay here while they await deportation or work their way through the immigration court system. you mentioned that jay johnson, the d
find these immigrants who need your help or how do they find you? well, my organization has been working inside of the unaccompanied minors shelters that are maintained by health and human services since 2008. so we literally are working inside of these facilities. we were the first not-for-profit inside of any of the department of defense facilities that are being rented out to health and human services. we are now in our fifth week working inside of lackland. so we re meeting these children inside of the detention centers they re being held. how many people do you have helping these kids? currently r.i.c.e. has a staff of 40. 25 of us are dedicated towards this work, and we recently received an emergency grant from a foundation here in texas to expand and sustain our current emergency civil legal aid response. so if you re dealing with this crisis, we re talking about undocumented minors, how do you
anything done. she wrote the immigration situation we face today is a direct failure of gridlocked washington lawmakers and president obama. immigrants flood across the border or parents drop their children there expecting the federal government to just throw up its hands and let them in. that s not an immigration policy. that s a failure of leadership. ana cabrera joins us will i have from artesia, new mexico. what should we be expecting? reporter: we re at the federal law enforcement training center in artesia, inment number. this is a place normally used to train special agents, other federal officers but it has been converted in the last couple of weeks into a temporary housing facility for many of these undocumented immigrants. now we re told so far more than 200 adults with children, mostly women with children, have arrived here. they ve been bussed here from texas, where they crossed the border illegally. again many coming from central america, so you can t just turn them a
this is the rio grande, nearly 1900 miles long and now the battleground of an immigration crisis hitting the u.s. it s where a flood of undocumented immigrants are crossing in texas every single day. we wanted to get a firsthand look so we headed out on a boat with johnnie hart who has lived on the river for more than three decades. it s a routine deal touring the river we see the crossings. reporter: it didn t take long for to us find a path used by undocumented immigrants to cross the river, a man in the heavy brush even appears to hide from us. it s mainly adults that we see lately in the last several months it s been women and children. you ve seen them on this river? yes. reporter: on rafts? yes. reporter: u.s. law enforcement boats, whether state or federal, are never too far away but when they are we see this, people on rafts hurrying
legs of petrona s father and killed another child in the family. to escape a death threat, her husband had already slipped illegally into america last year. she would do the same. two weeks ago, like so many others, she slipped easily into mexico at the guatemalan border but shortly after she crossed a river into texas she was arrested and brought to a detention center, joining dozens of other mothers and children. to cope with the tens of thousands of central americans like petrona, the government flew her and about 100 others to arizona. then drove them to the border patrol center in el accept to re, california, to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and given notice to appear in court. she s released on her own recognizan recognizance. translator: i m almost there. reporter: she tells her husband on a borrowed cell phone. he s living in washington state. he sent her money to buy the ticket and petron and rudy bored