Were, and that they had a plenty of food and diapers for children and everything was just hunky-dory and beautiful. and then within not even 24 hours you turn around and the chief of the u.s. border patrol is claiming that they ve been trying to get congress and she says specifically democrats to listen to them and give them more money and everything s out of control. and they re trying to do the best they can and they re overrun. so which is it? it seems they re giving two different messages here. let me read you a bit of this horrifying story that i thought, you know, tried to be quite fair to the border patrol people, to put it kindly. and this is one line of it. we had nine agents processing, two agents in charge of care, and we can t carry them or change diapers. we do ask the older juvenile, the 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds for helping out
Agents. under siege, we have half our agents processing. we don t know what is coming through. these children come and by law, you can t just turn them away. they go from you guys and ice and wind up with hhs, human services and get returned to a family member who may be in the u.s. illegally or wind upwards of the state. we have 400,000 children in foster care. that was the recent numbers are 2012. we have 400,000 already in foster care and tens of thousands coming across the boarder. how can we stop it? we can stop it by having some kind of consequence. the word is out in central america this is your golden ticket to the united states, that immigration is not being enforced, and the rule of law is
And our agents are stuck in the middle doing the best they can with resources they have. and we have half agents processing. we don t know what is coming through the children and by law you can t send them back. but they have to go from you guys to ice, then wind up with hhs. and then, they get returned to a family member, who may be in the us illegally or end upwards of the state we have 400,000 children in foster care in america. now, we have tens of thousands coming across the border. it, how can we stop it? by having consequence the word is out in central america this is your golden ticket to the united states. that immigration is not being