first lady is making her second visit to the border. her first stop was a visit to a u.s. customs facility in arizona that s housing migrant children. thank you first of all to have me here. and i want to thank you for all of your hard work that you do. and i know how dangerous and difficult your daily jobs are. so i really appreciate all you do for on behalf of the country. i m looking forward for our discussion and to tour the facility. and i m here to support you and give my help, whatever i can, for behalf of children and the families. mariana atencio is in tucson arizona. she is there, where the first lady is touring. ali, the first lady didn t tour this child migrant stelter behind me. she toured a tucson coordination
tucson, who are who have been directly impacted by this administration s policy. reporter: fred, you see behind me, there are only a couple of protesters seen behind me, that are disappointed that this is not the facility that this first lady is touring, we know she is at a u.s. customs facility two hours atwa frway fe border. it is the first place that detainees are taken after being taken to the 262 miles of boarder. 152 people caught crossing the border every day in this part of the united states. and they have 38,000 apprehensions the past fiscal year, nowhere near the real surge in illegal crossings in the year 2000, which we just heard from those agentses. but arizona is certainly a state that s been hit by the