counterproductive decision to deport thousands of haitian refugees. this is a biden appointee. this comes a day after nbc news confirmed that thousands of haitian migrants are being released on parole in the u.s. and will be allowed to seek asylum. while dhs officials say they re tracking more haitian mike grants making the trek through central america. texas governor greg abbott has sent a wall of calls to try to deter new crossings. last night a new nbc report revealed that dhs is searching for contractors to run a migrant detention center at guantanamo bay. in a statement to nbc news dhs denied the center would hold haitian migrants stopped at the texas border. ken dilanian is here for more on that story and i think we will have morgan chesky on the ground morgan, good, i m glad we have you here. morgan, start with what s happening on the ground with border patrol agents dispersing
of course, for so many of those folks making their asylum claims they have 60 days to report to an i.c.e. office, an immigration office and that s when they will get that court date that will begin this long asylum case proceeding that in some cases could take years. ken, striking headline on your piece last night about the possible use of guantanamo bay here. the biden administration now denying that the detention facility at gitmo has anything to do with the border crisis. walk me through what we know at this point. based on what dhs is saying right now it appears that this might have been an unfortunate coincidence that on friday they issued procurement documents seeking what they now say is a renewal of the contract for a firm to run and operate this little-known migrant detention center on guantanamo bay. i was just down there covering the trial of the 9/11 defendants and i didn t hear or see anything about this dhs facility, but apparently it s been running for years
arthel: turning to the crisis at our southern border. fox news has squeeze on - exclusive new images inside the migrant detention center. cramped conditions amid growing concerns over the spike of covid cases at the border. and there is no sign of slowing diet on - down. we are outside of the facility with more. reporter. we may have a case of déjà vu inside this facility right behind us appeared to be deteriorating once again. exclusive video overcrowded conditions inside a facility once again. the video shows migrants packed into pods similar back in march. a border patrol source saying as of thursday there were 5300 migrants held between 40 and