facility himself, just opened within the last couple of weeks, to see how things are going. listen to what he said yesterday, testifying on capitol hill. doing nothing is not an option. at our current burn rate within the department of homeland security, i.c.e. will run out of money in mid-august. given the added transportation cost, given the added enforcement cost, customs and border patrol will run out of money by mid-september at the current burn rate, given the situation we face. all of this costs a lot of money, so we re seeing that becoming another obstacle in this ongoing immigration crisis. we know already more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors alone have crossed the border, again, in texas, just since october, and there doesn t appear to be an end in sight, brianna. ana cabrera, thank you so much, from new mexico.
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. 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 hundreds of others to arizona, then drove them to the border patrol center in el centro, california, to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and given notice to appear in court. she s released on her own recognizance. i m almost there she tells her husband using a bore ode cell phone. he lives in washington state where she s now heading. he sent her money to buy the ticket and petrona and rudy board the greyhound for the 38-hour trip north. not in murrieta. not in murrieta! reporter: protesters in
why would you? kyung lah, thank you so much. joining me the chairman of the house homeland committee republican senator from texas, michael mccaul. you just heard the report. it s moving. the family came here she said not for a better life but for simply a chance to live. the president calls this an urgent humanitarian situation. even the former governor of florida, jeb bush said that what so many of these families are doing is not a felony, an act of love is what it is. what should the united states do with this family? look, i went down to dhs intake facility in texas and i saw three young girls, younger than my daughters, all in tears. i saw babies down there. this is a very tragic crisis that s going on in this country right now. one like i ve never seen before on the border. in the case of your expose, that
of progress on that. these are small countries in central america, we could help them end some of this violence and let the kids stay there safely. the other thing is, i think the president ought to go to the border while he s in texas. he ll be there for fund-raising purposes for the democratic party. as president he ought to deal and step up to the crisis at hand and go to the border and send a clear mess aage, parents do not send these young children on 2,000-mile trips ta take 45 days and put them on top of trains that subject them to rapists and leave them in the wilderness. there are terrible things going on to these poor children. if he went to the border and said it from there, it would have that power. he s scheduled to be in texas but not go to the border tomorrow. which begs the question as to why does it seem this crisis was such a surprise? it just seems from the way the reactions come out of the white house, if they knew about it, they certainly weren t talking about it
$200 to take her to the u.s. border but she was arrested shortly after she crossed a river into texas. she and her son joined thousands of other mothers and children in these packed detention centers. tens of thousands of them expected to cross illegally this year. to cope with the influx of central americans like petrona, the government flew them to el centro. to be fingerprinted, have their picture taken and appear in court. hers is in the state of washington where her husband lives. she waits in a shelter to head north to her husband, also undocumented. he fled goo wauatemala years ag. neighborhood house, the nonprofit sheltering the women and children said all the undocuments they re housing are leaving california on buses paid for by their families.