Research and suggestions for improving the management of public lands. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Next. Ton is host preparations are underway for President Trumps salute to america in washington tomorrow. One concern was the use of tanks brought in by flat head flatbed trucks and put on display during the event. You can watch that on cspan tomorrow starting at 5 00. This is the washington journal for july 3. The Inspector General released a report on overcrowded conditions of detainees along sections of the southern border. Using terms such as dangerous overcrowding and ticking time bomb. We will get your thoughts on the situation. Here is how you can call and let us know if you live in the eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. If you live in the mound and pacific time zones, 2027488001. If you are a border state resident at the southern border, 2027488002. You can post your thoughts on twitter at cspanwj and on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. The title of the report that was released by the Inspector General of the department of Homeland Security when it comes to that crowding when it comes to the rio grande section if you go to the website oi g. Dhs. Gov, dhs needs to address overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults in the rio grande valley, you can find that online. One section of the report reads we are concerned overcrowding and prolonged detention represent an immediate risk to the health and safety of dhs agents and officers and those detained. Border patrol management told us there had already been security incidents among adult males at multiple facilities. Senior managers raised security concerns for agents and detainees. One called the situation a ticking time bomb, just one section of the report and the other deals with situations concerning children. Border patrol costa rica theody data 21 of children at facilities had be been held longer than the 72 hours permitted. For example of the 1031 of those held at the centralized texas, 806center in had not been processed. Processed, 165 of those had been in custody longer than a week. Those are two sections of a multipage report and you can find it online if you go to the website of the Inspector General. Hs. Gov. We will show you more as we go along. If you want to talk about the findings, the larger situation when it comes to those detainees, give us a call. 2027488000 if you live in the eastern and central time zones. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, 2027488001. And if you live along the southern border and you are a resident of the state along the southern border and want to give your perspective, 2027488002. A couple of comments from our facebook feed this morning, you can make your comments known at facebook. This is robert saying the congress is 100 responsible for this nightmare. Until our immigration and asylum laws are changed, this horror show will continue. Doug says send them back, simple. Dennis adding congress cannot do anything right and just and bartlett also posting on our Facebook Page adding the words build the wall when it comes to dealing with the situation. Bob in wisconsin in clover, wisconsin. You are up first. What do you think about the findings of the report . Caller first, i totally blame democrats. I am a veteran, sir. I believe very much in sending these people back. You and i as americans are expected to obey the law or we get penalized or put in jail. These people deliberately broke the law. I blame democrats for encouraging them and please send them all back home. I did not serve our great nation to have it invaded by whoever, whether they are mexican or arab. Please deport every one of them, plus those dreamers. Obey the constitution, democrats. Host dean from North Carolina next. Good morning. Go ahead. Send all them back if they did not let them over the border to start with. Now they want welfare and everything. In the short term, what do you think about the overcrowding conditions . Is this a concern for you . Caller it would not be overcrowded if our leaders had stood up to them and not let them cross the border. All that is is a bunch of thieves in washington wanting something. Host if you go to the website and look at the report, the report features several photos of some of those conditions taking place and what inspectors saw. This is specifically for the rio grande section of the southern border which sees the most activity. Some of those pictures being posted. This is part of the report from the dhs office where you can see more of that. A borderlives along state in florida, go ahead. Caller good morning, pedro. This is no more than depraved in distance indifference to children or adults. Mr. Kelly, mr. Trump should all be prosecuted for this depraved indifference. Host when you say depraved indifference, expand on that. What do you mean . Caller their health needs arent being met, the food isnt being met, the sanitary conditions are deplorable. Guess 6y i called up i months ago saying the same thing and i wonder why it has taken so long for the press to catch on to this story. It has been happening for probably a year and nothing has been done. No investigative reporters have gone in unless, of course, they are suppressing these stories. The one of the features of dhs report when it comes to those detained, it is the number and they givens some comparisons from october 2017 to may 2018 when it comes to apprehensions only, unaccompanied alien children 30 family units, 32,000. Making it a total in that timeframe of october 2017 to may. 018, 99,835 a year later from october 2018 wasay 2019, children 23,944. Jumping tos, 63,507 223,263. That taking place from october 2018 to may 2019. More of that information put out report yesterday. Michael, go ahead. Caller i would like to say i am also a veteran. What goeshe world so around comes around. Dont this morning it is the white european that is crying because they need help. What do you think should be done about the overcrowding . Caller i think they need to take the money, allocate. Weve got the money, allocate. Compassion. To have we always get on tv and say god bless america. When you say take the money, what do you mean by that . Caller i am talking about, we are closing down military barriers and we need to take the money and clean them up because we are all human. Roy inets hear from florida, eastern and central time zones, which is one of the ways we divide the lines up. Roy in florida, you are next up. Go ahead. Caller i think there definitely is danger in overcrowding. A lot of this has been brought on by the Trump Administration and their unwillingness to go against their willingness to go against the law. This cannot happen. They are going to have to come up with a come out with some other thing to fix this situation. These people are suffering. It is inhumane, not right and this is a stain on our history because of President Trump. Byt is that what you mean going against the law . The previous statement you made . Againstyes, he is going the law. He is holding them on incarceration instead of letting them take asylum claims, that is why these places are so packed. When is it ever going to end . Nobody is doing a darn thing about it. Democrats arent. They cannot get anything on him thumbing his nose at them all the time. This goes on like a concentration camp and that is what it is, i am sorry. Host there is an analysis piece if you go to the newsweek website when he talks about what is going on at the border, comparing it to situations of the previous administration. Part of that says although it is difficult to compare whether Living Conditions were worse or better, Obamas Administration was accused of treating migrants in similar ways to that of the current white house. In 2015 during the president s tenure president obama, a referred to them as ice boxes. Filthyg, overcrowded, cells for extended period of time. Violation of constitutional standards and Border Patrols policies. If you go to the website newsweek, jason leman is the author of that analysis taking a look at conditions under this administration and making comparisons to the previous one. We are talking about those overcrowding situations. 2027488000 if you live in the eastern and central time zones. 2027488001 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones. And if you live along a border state, particularly the southern border, 2027488002. In illinois, we hear from kathryn in bolingbrook. Caller good morning. I believe i truly believe the United States is the greatest nation on earth. There is no doubt. We have everything we need, but we are losing our direction. Poor and how we treat these immigrants coming in, god is definitely going to judge us. God says blessed of the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Gods eyes are on these poor people. Host for what you said, what specifically needs to be done . Caller we have resources, lots of money that is just sitting around in our government. These cagesney, get unleashed and put them in decent housing. Lets look at these people and as a humanect you being. You cannot do this to another person without being judged, i am sorry. It hurts me so bad to see this and now we have a twoyearold dying in the rio grande . What are we doing . This is anthony in maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to say for years donald trump has hired Illegal Immigrants and only when he became president did he say he was going to start deporting people. He did not want to pay a decent wage or health care for people americans. Even his own supporters cannot get jobs at his golf courses and hotels and they are crying right now because he wants to deport. If donald trump is not following the laws like honoring subpoenas , how does he expect anybody else to follow the law . Host what should be done with the Current Situation described by the office of Inspector General . Caller right now it is a crisis and it looks like we are going to have to not open the borders, but there has to be some type of way you are going you are going to have to put them into some type of decent housing. We are going to have to address this because sooner or later just like in africa when notilence breaks out, it is going to stay right there at the border, we have to take care of these people. People were saying with the candidates, give them medical care. We are going to have to because we are going to be infected with disease if an outbreak happens. Host several members of congress headed to the southern border to look at and inspect these detention facilities firsthand. One of those, represented of Joaquin Castro from texas not only going down to look at it, but tweeting out photos and also being able to play at least record a video while he was in one of those Detention Centers. You can find the video there, but we will show you a portion of it. [video clip] [indiscernible] we will make sure we are getting her care, on the record. And whether it is in custody or outcome of those records go with her. Host that is available on the representeds twitter feed. Rick says off of twitter, one byproduct of the treatment is our evangelical sending millions in aid to the children at the border. They are following trump to hell. Liz off twitter saying these people are living better right now than they have ever lived before. Mike is next in North Carolina. Good morning, go ahead. Caller good morning. How are you doing today, sir . Host find, thank you. Caller i could get real angry. Bout this situation these people are saying they are being interred in concentration camps. They better look up the word concentration camps. We are not asking these people to invade our borders. By outsideg invaded population want to give people a reason to come to america. We need to change the laws and the house of representatives, the controlling power at this time is the democrats. The democrats will not pass a you have got to stay in your own country if you are going to ask for asylum if you are in a country other than mexico. Host do you think immigration laws need to be changed further than that or help those who want to become citizens of the United States do so . Does. yes, it there is also another aspect of this. A lot of the people coming to america do not wish to become american citizens. They are not going to assimilate. They are coming here because the country they come from, there is zero chance of making any money. They can come to america and start making money. It is about the money. Host when it comes to the process of asylum, the hill reporting it was a federal judge blocking the order from the attorney general william barr that stated certain Asylum Seekers can be detained. Marsha pendulum in Washington State road it was unconstitutional to deny asylumseekers a bond hearing while they wait for asylum claims to be processed. It is the finding of this court it is unconstitutional to deny them a bond hearing. Giving asued hearing to be released within seven days after that hearing. Far barr issued his new asylum order. Finding the policy and cemented by william barr, the attorney general, was unconstitutional. In california, you are up next about this report about the overcrowding at the border and what should be done about it. Go ahead. Angry likeet so very the other gentlemen when i hear about all of this ilLegal Immigration and these bleeding heart liberals and people think the United States of america is supposed to take care of everybody except their own. I dont see anybody screaming about that. As far as the condition under, go are living home. They are living like current prisoners and convicts who also break the law. Correct,ant to come they dont have to go through that. It infuriates me so many people think godfearing people should welcome any and any every and anybody into their home and country without any question because they want to be here. That doesnt work in my house. Today, all of this ridiculousity for people who arent even american citizens. Why not take care of your own people . Int lets hear from juanita ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning. Frankly, i think the whole situation is a shame. What we need to do is basically , give theseaid. Eople a hearing you cannot hold a person indefinitely. Number two, the money they find decent places right now in south america, it is winter. Those people are tired and scared and happy fourth of july. Goodbye. Host an oped piece by will hurd represents the 23rd Congressional District of texas talking about that border spending deal signed by the president. Writes, i welcome the border spending bill, but this is only a shortterm fix. Congress and the Administration Must do more to address the crisis. It does not get to the root cause. Violence, poverty, and lack of justmic opportunity imagine how bad the situation must be in the home countries for migrants to risk a dangerous 23 mile trip over Central America to south or west texas. The crisis expose the need to upgrade asylum laws with a backlog of more than 900,000 cases. Asylumseekers must wait an average of two years for their cases to be heard, more Immigration Judges that can adjudicate a case within nine months. Such fixes along with streamlining Legal Immigration are straightforward ways to solve root causes of the current crisis. The writer represents the 23rd district of texas. You can read the piece for yourself, the border spending bill is still not enough. John is next in carrollton, texas. Good morning. Caller yes, good morning. Senators and representatives in Congress Took an oath to uphold the laws of this country. You come into this country illegally and expect us to take care of you, that is not right. Who represents us in the senate and congress have failed to uphold the oath they took to uphold the laws of this country. These people came of their own accord. I guarantee if we go to other countries, they will not open throw us in jail or somewhere like that. I dont see how it is our responsibility to take care of these people if they come here illegally. The report yesterday there was an additional report at chairman Elijah Cummings announcing a hearing will take place on this issue saying the committee on oversight and reform the committee inviting from theecretary department of Homeland Security and mike morgan from u. S. Customs and Border Protection to tify july 12 regarding harsh conditions at Detention Centers on the border. For nexting scheduled week. In texas, good morning. You are next. Caller good morning. I am glad finally we recognize this is, indeed, a crisis. Not a manufactured crisis. 6 months ago or before that when the president brought this issue to light, he was called all kinds of mean. Now we have congress people, democrats running to the border and taking pictures, talking all kinds of stuff that doesnt make sense. Child traffickers and drug dealers are using the asylum system to circumvent immigration laws. This is what it is about. The system needs to be fixed. That has been used as a backdoor to the country and that is wrong. Children across the board a illegally. Host lets hear from james, brooklyn, new york. Good morning. Cnnspan fork you taking my call. You guys have really gone downhill. Your manufactured callers you call been let them go on and on. Host first of all, i will stop you there, there is nothing manufactured about the calls, it is just cspan, but go ahead. Caller if you let me go in your studio and watch how you run your show, i bet you 1 million you guys are fake. Host the topic is the overcrowding at the border, what do you think about that . Caller these democrats make all this stuff up like they are really concerned. Nobody is concerned about t