>> reporter: vice president joe biden meeting with leaders in guatemala as the obama administration struggles to deal with the growing immigration crisis. thousands of unaccompanied children like the ones we met along the texas/mexico border are risking their lives to enter the u.s. illegally. biden's visit is part of president obama's response to a growing problem. the administration hoping to quash rumors driving families and children north chasing a dream. >> so much of what we're seeing on the southern border is the result of a deliberate, misinformation campaign that is propagated by criminal syndicates in central america. >> reporter: nearly 1,000 undocumented and unaccompanied kids are piece housed in facilities throughout the u.s., according to new congressional figures obtained by cnn. their concrete holdin cells constantly full. from october to june, have,000 unaccompanied children have been