this is a disturbing scoop you guys had today. thanks, rachel. the administration seems to be pursuing this military base option simply because they need space and they need it fast? yes. they need federal facility, and erare a up bases that they re doing site surveys on because they just may have the space. like.t know whatul would it be some large auditorium, would it be barracks that aren t being used, would it be fields where they would set up tents? we don t really know. but they just need the space. and of course this comes as you mention because there has been a backlog of children. more than 11,000 because of this neration policy which is called zero tolerance. and basically, that says that anyone who comes across the border illegally will be referred for prosecution to the departmejustice. the people are coming across the border with children. the kids can t go to jail. so the department of health and human services takes custody of them, of their care and feeding there
that aren t being used, would it be fields where they would set up t? we don t really know. but they just need the space. and of course this comes as you mention because there has been a backlog of children. more than 11,000 because of this new trump administration policy which is called zero tolerance. and basicall that says that anyone who comes across the border illegally will be referred for prosecution to the department of justice. well, many of the people are coming across the border with children. the kids can t go to jail. so the department of health and human services takes custody of them, of their care and feedi there has been a big influx, thousands of them. and now the border facilities where they re temporarily held, everything is filling up. they re at or near capacity. so now thehas to fina e to take care of all these kids. if they are going to put these kids in military bases, what kind of time frame for how long they can keep kids at military sites? so it would be
facilities. joining us now is nbc news reporter courtney kube. thanks for joining us. this is a distuooyou guys had today. hanks, rachel. the administration seems to be pursuing this military base option simplyecause they space andy need it fast? yes. they need federal facility, and there are a couple of military bases that they doing site surveys on because they just may have the space. we don t know what it would look like. would it be some large auditorium, would it be barracks that aren t being used, would it be fields where they would set up tents? we don t really know. but they just need the space. and of course this comes as you mention because there has been a backlog of children. more than 11,000 because of this new trump administration policy which is called zero tolerance. and basically, that says that anyone who comes across the border illegally will be referred for prosecution to the department of justice. well, many othe people are coming across the border with chil