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Processed and reunited with their families. the children arrived at the isabelle dee tepgs center on a july afternoon last year with most spending at least 23 hours inside the vehicles. it was not until 39 hours later that the last child was reunited with their parents, 39 hours later. now, an employee for the bcfs health and human services, thats a government contractor, a nonprofit responsible for transporting these children, that organization said despite two notifications that they would be ...

May 31st, waiting to be processed and taken to another situation like hhs where they could be more comfortable. as a result, they have overcrowding. they dont have enough beds. ive spoken to people who say they have bench and stools, not beds and cots. >> you and your colleague had another report this morning. after seeing it, hillary clinton tweeted this is horrifying. what im talking about is youre finding that last summer migrant children were left waiting in vans overnight in some cases much...

Thats not considered parent. hes unaccompanied. he ran 105 degree fever, was kept at a border station for nine days before he was transferred to health and human services where he could have better care. that was a near death. we know of three other actual deaths. children who have died in border patrol custody. the reason for this backlog is not only the influx but the increased capacity. the fact that hhs, health and human services is at 97% capacity. they are unable to take in more children. ...

One accident but a tragic incident at that. when it comes to today, cbp is saying we need hhs to take these children more rapidly. hhs says were taking them as we get them but our hands are tied because congress hasnt given us more funding. theres a lot of finger pointing going around but in the end those who suffer are young and without medical care or place to sleep at night. >> im struck by the fact that no one is held harmless in the trump era. >> while trump and his team were putting togeth...

Unusual adding dhs took immediate action to resolve the situation and the delays were resolved. >> i dont think you can call it overnight when you have 30 plus children or scores of children staying in vans awaiting to be reunified with their families. boldt of us are parents and i asked you could you imagine your child being operated from you and sitting in a van overnight not knowing whats going to be happening the next day. think about the july heat. >> hhs calls it unusual. its unusual and i...

Loopholes that cause them to come to the country in the first place. talk about the children. 12 children a day are separated because we dont know if they are the parents. sad as it t is. nobody talking about the 15,000 children in custody of h.h.s. separated by their parents. i child is in central america. the parent hired a criminal organization to smuggleil the child to the country.l that is humane. they are better in the hands of the criminal organizations than the few in the custody of gove...

Patrol custody waiting to be transferred to hhs. thats a place with bedding, medical care, case workers who could have taken care of him. instead he waited those nine days and almost met his death. he had a fever of 105. these are the cases, his and other children who werent as lucky. there have been three deaths of children just since december. those children, the border patrol claims could have been saved if they have been able to be taken to hhs care faster. the reason they arent going to tha...

Family and children are coming up, they have not fixed loopholes that cause them to come to the country in the first place. talk about the children. 12 children a day are separated because we dont know if they are the parents. sad as it is. nobody talking about the 15,000 children in custody of h.h.s. separated by their parents. child is in central america. the parent hired a criminal organization to smuggle the child to the country. that is humane. they are better in the hands of the criminal o...

Children in federal custody for hhs. not for dhs, for health and human services. so we need that funding from congress and we need to immediately. >> harris: so many voices joining this script, if you will, echoing the same thing. "help." hector gaza now, vice president to the border patrol council, second in command. good to see you today. what does command looks like when things are falling apart? what can you do, what do you need? >> like secretary mcaleenan said, i think congress needs to ma...

Right now unaccompanied as children. we need to be able to move people very quickly to hhs custody to a better situation. >> so for people that dont know, hhs is the one -- thats the government agency charged with taking care of the migrant children. >> correct. >> whether the ones that were separated from their parents in the past, a policy that i dont think is going on any locker. >> its not. >> or the ones who are unaccompanied. a statement from hhs to abc news says its shelters have beds ava...