always on. he was mocked and an agent said what do you have a meeting to go to. just granular detail we re able to get talking to him humanizes this picture even more. from a broad perspective, how many are there out there? jacob and i got a report based on 30 children who had gone through the same facilities. we understand that s the tip of the iceberg. there are over 200 reports they call significant incident reports. not always clear what happens down the road. that s just in yuma. we understand the clint facility in the el paso texas and the rio grand sector of texas. these are other areas at river capacity. even agent doings their best every day could be overwhelmed. it seemed it could have an effect on your psyche and a lot of these children were not treated well. one other thing is the drinking
times and el paso times report describing the unsanitary conditions in detail. he did tell us he disputes that. take a listen. even at this point, you still dispute the characterization of the care that these children were receiving inside the clint facility? absolutely. we have added showers and lou d laundry facilities and clean clothing for them to wear. reporter: should this not have been added months ago before it got that bad? we have a entire contract in agreement. the illegal trafficking is ahead of our ability to respond. the chief border patrol for the el paso sector. this is another one of the facilities here. the number of migrant children has dropped dramatically the last couple of weeks and the reason is who you talk to. border patrol say it s due to increased security on the mexico side and they might argue policy
that this is cruel and unusual and intentional punishment of children who haven t done anything, who are coming here, fleeing draconian circumstances. they re children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you can t throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. this isn t a situation where you throw money. this is a question of the choices we make. and the choices that we make as an american people. jacob, you have reported about this yuma facility, and relate something that hope fry said that is something before congress and the nation, which is to what degree are these facilities essentially overwhelmed and incapacitated by a genuine upsurge in families
they re children who are come into our care, and we treat our dogs better than we treat these children. i wanted congress to understand that you can t throw money at it, that once they were outed for what was happening at the clint facility in el paso, they released a cbp went down from 2500 children to 350 before the appropriations bill came out. this isn t a situation where you throw money. this is a question of the choices we make. and the choices that we make as an american people. jacob, you have reported about this yuma facility, and relate something that hope fry said that is something before congress and the nation, which is to what degree are these facilities essentially overwhelmed and incapacitated by a genuine upsurge in families and children arriving, and to what degree is there something broken in the culture of cbp and i.c.e. vis-a-vis how the people who have to care for these children are treating them? i think that s the committee question, chris, because what we v
trying to relay the story of what s going on in the clint facility. and the higher up commanders in the department are claiming that they didn t know anything about this and the sources you have are all insisting we ve been pushing this information up the line but in effect, they just haven t cared about it. well, it wouldn t be for me to say whether or not they care about it, however, whenever i talked with the border patrol agent, whenever i talk with the cbp agent, their first thought about this whole issue and the border is they need more resources, that they need help from washington from their section leaders and certainly we ve reported that many times. it shouldn t come as a surprise at least for the leadership to know their agents are asking for assistance in this particlair case, i spoke with a border patrol agent who asked not to be identified. he certainly said that some