we have agents doing anything but work on the border and we need to have border patrol agents on the border protecting our country and it has to be an enhanced wall on the board to keep people from coming in and endangering themselves in the first place as far as the children this this drama that's been going on with the cages later the management of that as they are those people who may shop at the border and even if they don't have the correct don't commence want to claim asylum for example or escape domestic abuse in addition to having the obligation to protect the border do border patrol agents not also have legal and international legal obligations to the process people who say i'm here because i need refuge. ok i understand that but the one thing that the press and everybody else doesn't understand i hear it all the time it's border patrol border patrol portal the ports of entry is operated by c.p.p. operations the old customs inspectors and i now suspect it's not border patrol those agents at the ports of entry are responsible for taking these people and that are claiming asylu

border patrol detention facility it purports to be the first uncensored glimpse of what children forcibly separated from their parents at the border are experiencing at the hands of the american government there are some. people who are right. this is so heartbreaking it's so challenges that time to so that country that it must be changed must be changed immediately the trumpet ministration has separated at least two thousand children from their parents since mid april the kids are sent to detention centers to wait asylum hearings while the adults are processed through the criminal system sentenced and sometimes deported they are fleeing such horrific violence and rape. the kinds of conditions that every single one of us would run from in order to protect our children and our families are responding to the growing criticism from democrats and civil rights leaders trump remained defiant asian in a tweet the president referenced the refugee crisis overseas falsely claiming crime in germany is way up big mistake all over europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly in violen

this is the biggest border patrol detention facility along the southern border.et's be really clear -- this is the first part of the situation here. the first part of the process after you get apprehended by border patrol. then folks once they are separated, or if they come as an unaccompanied minor, will go to a station like i saw in brownsville, texas. for the most part here, it was family units. 55,000 square feet of families. also unaccompanied minors. it was exactly as you've seen in those pictures before. there were a l of people under those silver mylar blankets sleeping on the floor. it was around 72 degrees but some said in spanish it was cold. the thing i learned coming out of this facility, david, is this is the epicenter of where the separations actually happen. there is a point when the department of justice decides whether or not to prosecute the family units, the parents, the heads of household. at that point they are at about 40% in the sector according to manuel padilla, border patrol chief. they'll come to a processing part of this facility, whi

. >>> and police are investigating a deadly border patrol chase near the border. an suv overturned as it was pursued by a boer patrol agent. >> reporter: the high-speed chase that led to this deadly crash reached speeds up 100 les this suv rolling over in big hills, texas, 50 miles from the border with mexico. >> from what we can tell, the vehicle rolled off the -- went off the rolled and caught gravel and tried to correct and then overturned. >> reporter: they were being pursued by the border patrol agents and a sherrif's deputy. most of the passengers were ejected and five were killed. >> they were asking for help. help me, help me, i .huit was chaotic. >> reporter: u.s. customs and border protection said that a border patrol agent pursued the truck because they believed it was part of a three vehicle smuggling event. early there -- earlier they stopped other vehicles and made arrests. after they try to pull this vehicle over, there was a chase . cbs news. >>> the crash is under investigation by several agencies including border patrol in the texas department of

but according to customs and border patrol statistics, apprehensions have not reached peak levels they have seen in the past. back in the year 2000, there were more than 1.6 million apprehensions along the southwest border. in 2017, it was about 200,000. here's what has increased. the number of families and children without parents crossing the border. dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen said yesterday in the last 365 days, there's been a 435% increase in family units entering the country. so let's take a closer look now at what the border crossing process is. if you ask for asylum at a port of entry, it is not illegal and you cannot be criminally charged. here's the problem. so many people are flooding the ports of entry. there are lines so long and families getting through the process seems gargantuan, for some, almost impossible. at the nagalas port of entry, there's reports that families are waiting days and days and getting food and water from volunteers. dhs admits some families are getting turned away simply because there's not enough resources here to service them. other families se

let's bring in our first guest, hector is vice president of the national border patrol council and border patrol agent, president of the local 1613 chapter of the national border control. counsel, hector. terry, how are you doing, man? >> good to see you. >> laura: we've been hearing stories about how horrific it is for the families crossing the border and they cross illegally. it's a harrowing journey, but you guys are understaffed, overwhelmed and ditto for the h.h.s. folks trying to do their best here. >> we see on a daily basis, laura, these kids being abused on the mexican side. some of these female children come across, we know their parents send them with plan b medication, they're expected to be raped along the journey when it comes to mexico and central america. that's horrific. our number one goal as agents is we have to take care of these peep when they come into our -- people when they come into our custody. that's what our agents do. we treat these people with dignity and respect. and of course we have to protect the border. we need to help them, change the laws that are allo

and i was able to visit the border patrol station in mcallen, texas, which is the busiest border patrol station in the country. and i happened to be there during the busiest shift during that day in that busy station. and i was able to spend some time with the amazing women and men of the border patrol. who have one of the toughest jobs that i can imagine, of keeping our country safe, of protecting our communities and the families within our communities. and of meeting those who are at their most desperate, most vulnerable moment in their lives. people who have fled terror and violence, death and -- death in their countries to come to ours, to seek asylum, to seek safety, to seek refuge. and in that border patrol station i had the ability to meet a family, a young mother and her young child, who had fled honduras and had traveled more than 2,000 miles to come to this country. and because they presented themselves to border patrol agents, didn't try to flee from them, went to those border patrol agents seeking asylum, in between the ports of entry, and didn't do it at the international b

>> so, i've been a border patrol agent for 18 years.became a whistle blower and reported violations of law to the office of special counsel because we were seeing we were holding a lot of immigrants without access to food, water, restrooms. we had people that were detaining them in sally ports. there was not enough space. they were held in overcrowded detention cells, and i contacted the local authorities to report this. i contacted the fire marshal at my station and also became a whistle-blower to report the horrendous conditions. as agents, we have not seen any of that and we feel the lessons have been learned from the past and have now impacted the way we hold people and the way we treat people and i'm happy to report that things are being done very humanely with dignity and with respect. >> i talked to congresswoman jackie speier earlier this hour. she toured some of these detention centers earlier today and i want to play for you what she said. >> i mean, i thought i was in a third world country when i walked into the processing ce

gayle king is at a border patrol facility in mcallen, texas. u i'm anne-marie green.his is the "cbs morning news." s." and it keeps improving comfort with continued use. move free ultra. ♪ the 2018 camry. toyota. let's go places. >>> our top stories this morning, at least five people were killed and several others injured during a high-speed border patrol chase in texas. police say a driver of an suv carried 14 people driving at speeds of over 100 miles an hour overturned. as >>> and as we reported, about 2,000 minor children separated from their parents in the last few weeks are sleeping in separate shelters. tony dokoupil looks at what's driving the crisis. >> reporter: growing outrage as thousands of children are split from their parents at the u.s./mexico border and housed in shelters like this former walmart in texas. but amid the outrage, there's also confusion as president trump has repeatedly tried to blame democrats for the policy. >> i hate it. ay.e theldren beg tan the democrats have to change their law. >> reporter: not true, according to immigration analy

border patrol sector along the 2,000 miles of the u.s.-mexico border. and that's where families, mothers in this case and their young children, are brought after they are arrested, trying to cross in between the ports of entry. i should make clear, those border patrol acts that i met along with those families are doing the toughest jobs that i can imagine, and they tell me that those young mothers and children are turning themselves in. not trying to flee or evade detection. they are turning themselves in to those border patrol agents. but that's where i met a 27-year-old mother, her 7-year-old child. they just made the 2,000-mile journey from honduras. had been arrested hours before. and unbeknownst to them they were about to be separated. and chris, i will never forget seeing that 7-year-old girl clutching her mother's hand as she must have been for the last three weeks and 2,000 miles of that journey. and just as they thought they had reached safety and asylum and refuge that little girl was about to be taken away from her mother. the

government, blaming border patrol agents. but these parents know that there is a chance that they're going -- they know they will be arrested for illegal entry. though know there's a zero tolerance policy. like they knew they would be admitted and be able to escape over. but they have that information as the agents pointed out, on facebook the next day. so they are, the ones putting their children in this predicament, subjecting their children to danger and subjecting their children to being separated from them. they know they will be arrested. >> laura: one of our border agents from texas last night, revealed that he's seen on many occasions when border patrol approaches a, quote, family unit, the so-called parent who ends up not being the rnt pa, drops the child and runs. he said we see that all the time. i think people have to remember when the cartels are involved, there are all sorts of competing interests, the kids are caught in the crosshairs but we have to remember that these kids become prime targets for msn recruitm

came out showing border patrol officers that i hadn't met destroying water fsupplies left by activiss people not die. showing proceed patrol destroying water supplies trying to help people not. >> while the agency released a statement they they condone the actions. we no every there are agents like this and like this. which are there more of? it's hard to know. but there is no question that the water was there to save lives. if anybody knows what happens to people out there when they don't have enough water it's dr. bruce anderson, an examiner from pima county, arizona. >> tell people where we are. >> we are in the receiving room and we receive here everything fl a dead body to a single bone which could be found in the desert. bull but all of the deceased people come in the back door. >> to be clear this is not just for people at the border anybody in the county. >> everybody, the vast majority come in here with a name. there is no question about the identification. with the migrants foreign nationals who die outside in harsh conditions, that's not true. if you are mexican citizen, ce

what did it change from yesterday to today for the border patrol? >> what it means is whenever we take the children in custody, now, we have to separate children from parents initially, especially if they don't have documentation to prove these are their children because one of the things to look at is are these children being exploited, brought in for sex trafficking? initially, we separate them and bring them back immediately and hold them in the same facilities without separating them over a long period of time. >> i understand if the elder person, older person is not the parent and just smuggling some kid into the united states but what if they're the real parents and the children are taken away by your fellow border patrol agents? that seems so cruel. >> that's something we never look at and say this is something that we were happy doing but in reality if you look at what we were actually doing, when we took people into custody, we would keep them together until they had to go see a magistrate. seeing a judge whatever that sentence the magistra

provided to us by the border patrol. migrants were kept behind chain-linked fences, we'll be right backed in mylar blankets, the same used by marathon runners, and huddled on mattress on the floor. >> parent after parent said they weren't told where their child their child was taken away. they had no way to communicate with their children. that's not misinformation. that's someone i heard with my own ears and was talking to the people. >> that is misinformation. >> are they not telling the truth to me? >> we have a sheet we give. we give a sheet to the parents. >> when we visited one of the shelters, that was a pediatric specific shelter. there was this one child. she was not even 2 years old. she was sobbing and screaming and wailing. all of the adults in the room were just helpless. we knew that we couldn't give her what she needed. thas her mother. her mother wasn't there. >> there has been much outcry, consternation and, frankly, misinformation, for many in the press, in congress, and advocacy groups over the last fe

we spent the entire day with border patrol agents, this part of the border is incredibly active with, they say with people, migrants trying to bring their families here and also drug traffickers trying to move narcotics into the u.s. we saw them when they raided a suspected stash house, they found seven men who they say were from mexico, who just crossed into the u.s. on tuesday morning. they were in that house for just two hours when authorities got the tip, they went in, they raided that home and they found those seven men. immigration advocates say most of the people who cross into this country illegally do so for safety and not to commit a crime, and this is just certainly an example of what the border patrol and what residents who live along the border deal with day in and day out. diane, kendis. >> our thanks to marcus. >>> in the men time, there's a new legal battle at the border, a mother from guatemala who was released on bond after crossing into the u.s. illegally, is now suing the trump administration, claiming border agents will not tell her where her son has been transfer

the law should be changed so that the border patrol can turn away individuals and family units at the border ifr necessary. today, only mexicans who cross the border illegally can be turned back.an that's absurd. our border patrol doesn't exist as a wave-in facilitator for any group of supposed family members who mouth the script given to them by lawyers, nongovernmental institutions or other people in their home countries that theyng mouth for asylum. the american people are footing a really big bill for what is tantamount to a slow rolling invasion of the united states. and we can no longer permit central american countries to export their property and their desperation to our nation. our own children, black, white asian, latino need help too. in detroit, here in l.a., in hartford, miami, chicago. so why don't the bushes and obama's and these left-wing reporters emoting today the white house and all the pro-amnesty democrats anday republicans, why don't they ever write op-eds or cry for those kids? you know why? because they think this over the top coverage and they misrepresent wha

speaker, with only 800 border patrol agents. 800 agents. today we have 21,000 border patrol agents. they had 800. i divided that out to see what's the ratio. for every border patrol agent that dwight eisenhower had, we've got 26.1 border patrol agents now. we're deporting -- let's see, last year, 2017, we deported 226,000. so they got 26 times -- more than 26 times better performance, better results back in the 1950's with only 800 border patrol agents for 2,000 miles along the southern border. where now it's 21,000. 26 border patrol agents for every one they had then. and we deport fewer people than they did then. and by the way, that 1,074,000 voluntary returns, we can set up policy that brings about a lot of that as well. dwight since eisenhower, each president that succeeded dwight eisenhower diminished our enforcement worse and worse and worse, less and less and less. so from dwight eisenhower we ratcheted downhill. and so there were fewer that were deported and less border security under kennedy, under johnson, and under nixon and on down the line. when we got to bill clinton,

when apprehended by border patrol agents. while there are legitimate claims of fear of persecution, there are also instances of immigrants being coached to say the correct phrase to obtain asylum. to combat this, the bill increases the credible fear standard. it also makes being a gang member a removable offense and qualifies illegal presence as a federal misdemeanor. in 2015, kate steinle was killed an undocumented -- immigrant without status while walking with her father in san francisco. the man responsible for her death had been an immigrant deported multiple times and should never have been in the country on that day. constituents of the 26th district of texas experienced a similar tragedy in 2013 when a young girl at a crosswalk was struck and killed by someone in the country without legal status. while the recent enforcement policies at our southern border have led to a temporary separation of parents and children, a grandfather will ver be reunited with their daughter and granddaughter. inclusion of the kaine steinle

what is very telling to me, if you listen to the border patrol talking to itself, the border patrol councilhich is their union, has a podcast which is sponsored by breitbart where the hosts sit there and talk about -- they're very anti-immigrant and sort of feeling sorry for themselves. this one particular podcast that anyone can listen to what they say, we just had enough of these assaults and we should be allowed to respond. we should be allowed to use more force. five seconds. >> we shld basly be allowed to be people up. amamy: debbie nathan, thank you for being g with us and fofor af your work on the border as you work for brownsville, texas. we will link to your report in the intercept are headlined "hidden horrors of "zero tolerance" -- mass trials and children taken from their parents" as well as your piece you just did "border patrol continues to exaggerate danger to agents to justify violence against immigrants." when we come back from the supreme court ruling for colorado baker refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "el helio" performin

now i want to play a bite for you of one of my conversations with a border patrol agent of how he seeshese families who are coming over most of them, and how dangerous the trek north just to make it here to the border is for them. let's hear it. >> how dangerous is it to be out here? >> oh, here we're at right now it is extremely dangerous. and that's why we have a bulletproof vest. every group that we interdict there is an element of danger. based on what is being smuggled, will determine the level of danger. that level of danger obviously is a little bit higher than a smuggler bringing in just your every day illegal immigrant. >> reporter: the border patrol chief telling me, katy, that most of these people are searching for the american dream. and in fact, they get extorted by these smugglers who charge them, especially the ones from central america, anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 per person, for every single member of one of these families, to try to come here. then the agent said this to me, which was fascinating. compared to drugs, to any other product that is smuggled over here

to a border patrol station. there's jonathan ariel, 11 years old. he left honduras with cousins but they abandoned him along the way. his mother lives in virginia and told him not to make this journey alone. but now he's here. i told her i wanted to come but she said it's very dangerous. are you scared? a little he says. it's a brief conversation that leaves you with many more questions about how a young boy can get to this point. as an unaccompanied minor, he will likely end up for the time being in a children's shelter like this one as federal authorities try to connect the boy with his mother. the rest of this group is made up of two adult women with their children. dahlia saupa is 24 years old. she crossed the border with her little boy. why did you come? she says gang members left a note at her home threatening to kill her and that's when she decided to flee. are you afraid they'll separate you from your children? yes, he's my son and i love him, she says. i have carried him throughout my journey. she did n

that's where we were at with border troll patrol agents all day yesterday on these boats. they are patrolling the river trying to keep smugglers at bay. it is these people who are trying to bring bundles of drugs, but also undocumented immigrants along the river. we weren't even out with them for 15 minutes and already we caught them trying to bring migrants over. i want to play that moment caught on our cameras for you now. >> what's happening now? >> we had a -- we had a group attempt to make their way to the u.s. side. >> this group behind us here. >> this group behind us here. they were spotted by agents on the ground and as soon as they heard their boats, they went back to mexico. >> so they're retreating to mexico right now? >> yep. >> these people. do you know if they're my grapts or smugglers? >> at least two of them are smugglers and the other three, i mean -- >> the other three are -- >> yeah, who knows until we catch them. >> so do you go after them now or -- >> well, they're in the water. they haven't madent trip to the u.s. side yet, so -- and they're going ba

border patrol is referring 100% of the people that cross the border illegally to the justice department. for criminal prosecution. the verification of family relationships is essentially the same in both instances. >> so, with this new policy in place, at the point that you're in a situation where you decide to separate the families, where do the minors go? >> the decision is to prosecute 100%. if that happens to be a family member, then the hhs would then take care of the minor as an unaccompanied child. >> but can you tell us -- over the past couple of weeks, we have seen reports of families that have been separated but nobody can tell us where the children are going. do you know where they're going? >> they're referred to health and human services to be placed in a shelter. >> you're telling me i'm better off asking hhs? >> yeah, they control the system as it relates to where the shelters are and which ones they send them to, et cetera. it's their work that will reunite families or place them with a guardian. >> this is probably a question for you, director. yesterday the department

this area of the border patrol sees more people caught by the border patrol than anywhere else on thethwest border. the chief told me half of those people are seeking asylum. they're fleeing some sort of violence and trying to get legal status here in the united states based on that claim. now what happens to asylum seekers is more up in the air than it's ever been for these young kids because they're being taken away from their parents. now the attorney general is saying things like dom met aft t domestic abuse is no longer grounds for asylum. so many turned back, based on these new decrees basically from the attorney general. >> molly, i want to remind our viewers of something president trump said back in april. >> we're going to be doing things militarily. until we can have a wall and proper security. we're going to be guarding our border with the military. that's a big step. >> all right, so national guard soldiers have been deployed since then to help carry out the president's orders, molly. in reality, they're apparently as far away from the border as possible. politico reportin

she is offending ice agents and border patrol agents. these are the law enforcement officers that go go out there every single day to risk their lives to serve it american community and protect our country. it's very unfortunate she would be separating this type of hateful rhetoric. >> laura: one of the wrote in the heritage foundation yesterday website he talked about who is responsible for this. because, you know, the left will say donald trump created this crisis. it's all donald trump. no one else is responsible. i think a fair assessment and the trump administration made a decision that to stop the crush at the border we had to do zero tolerance. that's what their decision was. but, there are other decisions made along the way, hector, that you see every day. parents sending children alone on 1800-mile journey. parents deciding to bring children with them on 1800-mile journey through very dangerous territory to present themselves at non-legal crossing united states. that is a responsibility that they decided to take on and there are

and we've embedded with the border patrol to give our viewers what happens when the families leave central america before they even cross the border. what happens to these children? it's incredibly dangerous. and yesterday our nbc news cameras were embedded with the border patrol as we saw a group being smuggled over yrkd incl, a woman that was six months pregnant. i want to show the reaction of the agent in charge of that operation last night. >> it's a scary thought that the people -- the things these people go through crossing the river. it's dangerous. walking through the brush, the high temperatures we have. it's a very dangerous thing. and it's sad to see someone who is six months pregnant put themselves in that position where something could happen. it's a shame that these smugglers put these individuals in scenarios where you don't know what the outcome could be. >> we were embedded with the border patrol search trauma and rescue yesterday. it's also part of their job to save these people's lives. many of them, as he said, they're left to die out in the desert. when we think about

>> this crowd shouting at border patrol agents and police officers physically blocking a bus loaded with children from leaving a migrant detention center in texas. that bus eventually did depart with those children on board. >> to see a bus full of children that i saw myself, this little girl, i was telling her, you're not alone, we're with you. people are speaking up for her and she put her little hand on the window and i saw a baby. like a little toddler in there and i saw another baby. it was just very difficult to see. i'm a mother. >> cnn's paolo sandoval is live in texas. what is the tension level now? seems like things have cleared out but do we have any more information about where that bus went? >> reporter: very different scene now, obviously, things got fairly tense about an hour or so ago as one of these buses that we know are often used to transport undocumented people to hearings or processing facilities, one of the buses was rolling out of the border patrol facility which is being guarded by local and federal authorities. as it was driving out, a protest basically spilled

many locals are grateful to the border patrol for keeping them safe. >> the more enforcement, the drones and towers and more agents on the ground and checkpoints has just made it a harder journey for people. it's caused more deaths, more suffering. >> reporter: marieda vallet is a volunteer. she blames the government on driving them more into the desert. for years they've been trying to save lives by leaving water in the desert. migrants aren't the only ones who find their bottles. >> last january no more deaths alleged a border patrol had destroyed over 3500 gallons of water. as proof they released this video. the border patrol says the agent kicking the bottles was suspended for three days and this one's already retired but all agents have been instructed not to touch water left in the desert. agent dan hernandez of the border patrol says they are trying to save lives, too. >> this is a rescue beacon. we have 32 of these. >> the migrant pushes a button, sits down and somebody comes to help out with a jug of water. >> correct. obviously we don't want

and according to the border patrol they are. they do say they believe sooner rather than later people will stop leaving, or at least in the numbers we've come toro expect those central american iuntries. did ask if they're messaging in the central american governments. they didn't answer me. >> major repairs are under way this morning in japan following the deadly earthquake. yesterday we showed you pictures of massive nkholes. this morning crews are repairing the giant holes in the road. the earesquake dtroyed several roads andat undergrouner pipelines. you can see the intensity of the quake in this video. four people are now confirmed dead following the quake. all four were killed by falling de more than 300 others were injured. >> nth korean leader kim jong un is in beijing this morning o discuss the next step after his summer with president trump. china has long been considered a powerful force. >> reporter: there's no official explanation why this visit, kim jong un's third to china, was announced in advanre the other two v

border patrol had this to say. tolerate misconduct on or off duty and willfully cooperate with investigations. >>> new details on a shooting in kansas that left two deputies dead. they were shot by an inmate who over powered them. kim hutcherson explains investigate tother whaened. >> time for us to begin the healing process. >> reporter: a routine prisoner transport ends in tragedy in kansas city. two sheriffs deputies were shot by an inmate friday. >> when they pulled into the parking lot ready to transport these inmates, they were overcome. it is very possible that with their own firearm, they were both shot. >> reporter: teresa king died from injuries early saturday morning. she had been with the sheriffs office for 14 years. a 7 year veteran of the department died on friday. >> t.k. and patrick gave their lives for us and they did so fully aware and willing to do so. >> reporter: the two deputies were transporting two inmates from a kansas city court house. authorities say the deputies followed proper transpor

but at the border patrol station, that is exactly what we saw. mylar blankets, the type runners have after marathons. mattresses on the floor. they're supposed to be out within 72 hours but people are being detained longer than that as this policy sort out. border patrol tells us they're overwhelmed at this point. >> for more on the political backlash facing the trump administration, tracie potts is on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. first of all, let's talk about the protests. this is spilling into the streets all over the country. these protests tied with father's day. with advocates who say these families should be able to see . we're seeing the auntry. now nearly 2,000 children who ve bee separated from their families, even tent cities being set up to house these children, unlike the centers that we've seen before. and here in washington, republican pushback to the president's separation policy. the zero tolerance policy. from high-powered republicans, including house speaker paul ryan, lindsey graham who says the president could s t

border patrol. i can tell you for a fact one of the worst things that you would ever have to do is have to pull the body of a young kid out of the river because they were crossing and they just didn't make it. so something needs to change so we can avoid some of these tragedies that happen. granted having these kids in detention centers, obviously it's not idea but it's far better than the alternative, a lot of these kids not making it. >> yes. and i know you say ultimately -- you're doing your job and i know you say it's up to congress. actually it is up to president trump. they don't have to separate these children from their parents. that is different from under the obama administration till now. do you think the president should right now end this policy of separating families? >> you know, i think you're wrong there. it is a law and the law needs to be enforced. >> what is the law? >> as far as if you come across that river illegally, you're subject to arrest and prosecution and you will get ar

they said the border patrol vehicles were chasing this vehicle near san antonio before deputies took over. the suv was going around 100 miles an hour when it ran off the road and rolled over of the most of the 14 passengers were believed to be undocumented. the driver and one praeng u.s. citizens. they are in custody. we'll have a closer look at the opposing views over the immigration crisis. that's tonight on world news on abc 7, right after this newscast at 5:30. >>> a number of suspicious grass fighters all happened last night with the largest fire burning a quarter acre of bush. firefighters extinguished up to ten small fires. >>> several water main breaks. crews are repairing this one near oakland. the east bay officials said the 12-inch main broke last night is nearly 90 years old. about 100 customers don't have water. crews worked on two other water main breaks. one in walnut creek and a second just outside the city limits. more than 50 customers were without water for at least two hours. no word what ruptu rupture. >>> abc7 news reporter carolyn tyler has this story. >> sit u

and that is from a border patrol perspective only.es that include ports of entry about that so when you have these high levels of activity and you couple that with a lack of person nelnel, technology and infrastructure, it creates chaotic environment that manifests itself with some very, very concerning statistics. and i want to bring your attention to this chart over here. if you look at this chart, there are some statistics that are very concerning because they directly impact the community. so one of them, of course is the surveillance. constantly we have efforts trying to reduce the number of people that lose their life as smugglers put them in dangerous situations. right now we're running pretty much even with last year and that is something that we're always focusing on bringing down. the good thing is the rescues have increased drastically about 48% in comparison to last year. that means that we are rescuing a lot more people before they are in a very difficult situation. tractor trailer loads. constantly in the news. just satu

long lines plagued the customs and border patrol checkpoint for flights arriving at scc tonight. a viewer sent us this video. >> you guys happy about this process? >> no. >> reporter: one man had been flying more than 24 hours from mumbai just to wait four hours in line. >> this is my first time. i have not experienced something like this. >> reporter: others, some with children on flights from cabo san lucas. >> hire more people and be prepared for things like this. >> 2 1/2 hour flight to sit in line for three hours. >> there were a couple hundred angry people standing at customs trying to get through with about two to three customs officers working. >> reporter: several passengers told me they missed their domestic connections by two hours because of the backup. >> craziness. it was inexcusable. >> reporter: lauren young is an airport spokesperson. she says it's extremely rare, a perfect storm. when flights arrive a little late or early on a friday night, combine that with low staffing from customs and border patrol. >> they had some limited staffing at sjc and some of the oth

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i hear this from people talking to me on from border patrol. they say, look, the reason they're having to cross illegally is because we haven't been able to resource these border stations. these are the ports of entry people are allowed to present themselves for asylum, come legally. but there was actually an intentional act not to move more people down there as we saw that migrant caravan and floods of other families and populations come up to the border. hhs, the whole trump administration pulled back, they didn't send anything else. so the rank is file is saying this is problem. we didn't send people down there, we forced these people to go down illegally and now you're forcing us to arrest them. they're law enforcement, the leave, and the rule of law, and the lard liners when it comes to immigration maybe not politically so, but they see this as a self-inflicted crisis and one they don't want to be a part of. >> you realize what she's saying here is donald trump said earlier, you know, that's not true, we're not separating family. and the tr

your guest from the border patrol, almost 50% of border patrol are hispanic. what he said about those children, as this information starts to get out, thank you for getting that information out, the detention centers are far safer than the journey that the little children just came on. i will say this, people aren't stupid. i spoke to an african-american who said, gosh, the conditions at the detention center are better than some of the projects that i grew up in. people are looking at the sentencing, let's not blame the border patrol. they are doing the best they can, the children were brought here under horrible, irresponsible circumstances. >> laura: and mrs. trump, i saw the first lady trump, this is how someone deals with children. my kids are always totally out of control. and she -- just the way she deals with them, gets down low with them -- you can tell someone by the way they treat children. for all of you trashing melania trump, nice try. not working. you are digging yourself into a deeper hole. >> you know what, laura, she is floating above all of i

border chase. 12 undocumented immigrants thrown from a vehicle during a high speed pursuit with border patrol agents near san antonio. officials saying the car travelling at 100 miles per hour. at least five people died at the scene. >> this is, i think, a perfect example of why our borders need to be secured. >> the people united will never be divided! >> reporter: this as protests at migrant holding and processing facilities grow. >> this is the central processing facility here in mcallen and they're saying -- [ speaking foreign language ] telling the people inside that they are not alone. >> sharon is among the demonstrators. >> i don't think this should be happening and something needs to be done. >> we were a part of journalists allowed inside the processing center, showing hundreds of people in holding cells and some could be separated under the trump administration's zero-tolerance policy. >> morality is the law. they're criminals when they come across, okay, illegally and that's why they're getting separated. >> on this father's day, former president bill clinton tweeting these childr

on major routes, far north of mexico, the border patrol operates a second set of screening stations. we visited one of the busiest, 29 miles north of the border on interstate 35. that truck that was found in san antonio came through here. >> jason owens: it did. >> pelley: jason owens is the deputy chief at the laredo checkpoint. how did it manage to get through? >> owens: it's unfortunate, but the possibility of us catching every single thing to come through this checkpoint is just, is not feasible. >> pelley: the driver had his commercial license revoked. >> owens: yep. >> pelley: he came through here without a license. >> owens: uh-huh. >> pelley: how is that possible? >> owens: so, the agent on primary has just a couple seconds, given the amount of traffic that comes through. and so, the agent, whenever they talked to the driver, didn't have that reasonable suspicion. >> pelley: the x-ray was broken down that day? >> owens: yes. >> pelley: the border patrol wanted to show us the x-ray machine, but it was broken when we were there, too. >> i'm going to go back and scan the other si