the subject matter experts on tense policy, the transportation, escort and detention policy, and how that governs what we do. so my goal here today is to really provide you with context to what is actually happening in the south texas border. and we ll talk a little bit about the zero tolerance policy and answer those questions as well. you will see that it is a very complex situation that cannot be understood or appreciated when one carves out a small piece of the equation and builds an entire narrative around that piece. in this case, the zero tolerance policy. we will cover three areas and i ll give you a statistic al overview of the sector, zero tolerance and then we ll talk about the operational impact of
e-mail, jacob, that you were citing an article in which the man who will take the podium are was interviewed. 2012 he was put in charge of the tucson office and at that time, the section which included his hometown was the busiest on the border and under his watch which by all accounts was a very strict watch, we could say, drug cartel activity, illegal immigration along the border declined sharply. he has been criticized for what some have described as his previous draconian tactics. is he expected to make an argument that you got to be tough and then look at the results? yeah, this is all about deterrence basically. and chief padilla is known for his tenure in the tucson sector that used to have the highest apprehensions and chief padilla once he was there through a mix of the strategies of the border
saying their kids have been taken from them, on top of that they are escaping indescribable conditions. and he simply can t respond to any of that and it ends up on the public defender shoulders. all right. stay with me. jacob soboroff has arrived in mcallen. i know that the rio grande valley sector chief patrol agent will be having a news conference. to tao meut whais expected to be discussed. reporter: essentially this is the epicenter of all family separations along the southern border. the rio grande valley sector sees more apprehensions than any other border patrol sector. the vast majority of them as a matter of fact. so we ll hear from manuel padilla padilla, the chief of the sector. he told the washington post that there were about a quarter of all of the apprehensions sorry, family separations i
should say since early april have taken place inside this sector and not only will we hear from the chief for the first time since tathat zero toleranc was announced, we will also go inside this processing center where the separations actually occur. so this will be the first time we ve had being a assess inside the facility where once f are separated and they are dehe tak detained, they are split up. and so i m going to let agent rodriguez here finish briefing us and then we should be hearing from chief manuel padilla. again, this is the first time that we ll have access into the facilities where separations owe did yo occur. i know that he is i don t know that we need to play this up. this is the setup as understand. interestingly, i know from an
control and manpower drove crossings in that sector lower. and that is basically what happened, those crossings shift ed over to thishere i rio grande valley sector, this is now the hottest place on the southern border. and this is part of the reason that chief padilla is down here. and when you talk about technology, infrastructure, manpower, we re talking walls, surveillance towers and old fashioned border patrol agents. what is new here which we should remind everybody is the fact that for the first time in a systemic way the trump administration has put into place the zero tolerance policy that anybody that crosses the southern border will be prosecuted. and when those happen, families are separated. parents are separated from their children. the parents go ultimately into federal court, children go into the custody of health and human services. and it is creating an overflow siion and that situation is frankly a manufactured crisis. it is not something that needs to be happening r