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Community of tijuana, for all the communities of people, civil society that are trying to help them. there is a backlog of about 3,000 to 5,000 people, and it's completely illegal, as the congresswoman said, of this practice of metering. and that's going to take months and months to be able to turn themselves in. >> can i stop you for a second. explain what the practice of metering is and why it's illegal. >> so basically, what they're doing is they're saying we're not going to allow people to come and seek asylum. we're only going to take a tiny, tiny trickle of people. and when i was there, ...

Thousands at the border because we have closed down essentially our legal ports of entry, we want to know what is the impact of these cruel policies, metering, you know, and sending back people. what is the impact of those on these kinds of issues where people go to another place to try to cross, or they go to places that, you know, they're sort of forced into that area. so we've asked a number of questions around this, but number one is they actually did not follow what they were supposed to do, which is report to us within 24 hours. most of us on judiciary and the appropriators found out abo...

Called iceboxes because they're kept so cold. those have been around forever. and then not being medically staffed. that is not a trump administration policy. that is the way things have operated for a very long time. >> yeah, that's true. it's operated that way for a long time. but we're seeing more people who are having to wait longer at the legal ports. >> right. >> before they go to those area. >> so they're pushing them into the remote areas. >> when you think of the children in cages that we saw this summer, the ones who were waiting at the border before they went into hhs custody, healt...

Julia, what do we know about julia, what do we know about what happened while she was in u.s. custody? >> all right, chris. so jacqueline call crossed the border in new mexico, and she was apprehended near a place called antelope wells. it's not your typical border station that would have medical personnel or asylum officers who were ready to hear her case and administer care. she was actually held with 163 other immigrants for about eight hours, before they were put on a bus and taken to a larger facility more inland. it was determined that she was not feeling well before the bus left. her fa...

Metering, you know, and sending back people. what is the impact of those on these kinds of issues where people go to another place to try to cross, or they go to places that, you know, they're sort of forced into that area. so we've asked a number of questions around this, but number one is they actually did not follow what they were supposed to do, which is report to us within 24 hours. most of us on judiciary and the appropriators found out about this through "the washington post" story. >> wow. senator, i know you've been down at the border. what do you see down there in terms of the downst...