gary tuchman is on the border. >> reporter: they came without their parents.n from honduras, traveling to mexico, crossing the rio grande and just now arriving in texas. this girl says she made the dangerous journey because she wants to see her parents in austin. another child saying that the journey was frightening. unaccompanied children isn't new. what's different now though is that the numbers have dramatically increased and almost all of them are coming not from mexico, but honduras guatemala and el salvador. >> they know we're going to give them paperwork and they will be set free into the united states. >> reporter: but it's a bit more complicated. each child's family background is investigated before they can be set free. so what's being done is the hundreds and hundreds of children who have arrived are being transported to the border patrol station in arizona where they are temporarily living. this picture from a local radio station shows children sleeping with thermal blankets and them being transported to military facilities in california, texas and

gary tuchman has more on that. >> don, i can tell you here in the state of arizona we have an influx of children crossing the border. just over the last two weeks since memorial day. also, mothers with small babies. why they're doing this, we don't know exactly. what they telling us is that central american countries like guatemala, lhonduras, el salvador. mothers are telling us this he want out of there. they want their children to be safer. they have family members here, it is a safer place to be. we know it is known by those people, those groups, that it is easier to stay in the united states when you're a child or mother with a child. they are treated much differently. the children coming here alone are taken, for the most part, to a border patrol station in arizona p. they are flown to three different military facilities in california, oklahoma and texas. it is then decided what to do with the children. most likely they will end up in the country if they have family here. the mothers, a different story. mothers and babies are told you can stay in the country for now. they are ta

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national correspondent gary tuchman is in nogales, arizona. you are in nogales, tell us why they have been brought there. >> reporter: well, we do come to you from nogales, arizona, like you said. this is the border, the other side, nogales, mexico, the other side, nogales border station, that's where the border patrol station is, the place where people and children, picked up in texas and new mexico and came and here in arizona are being brought there, it's a large border station with a lot of employees and resources. it's not fancy at all, it's very crowded inside. but there's space for the hundreds of children there now. but the idea is, when they find out children have relatives in the united states, they'll send them to relatives if the relatives are in good standing, otherwise sent to three military facilities in the united states, texas, in oklahoma, and in california while they continue the investigative work. certainly a problem in a big deal if more and more children keep coming into this country. what's so different about the situati

gary tuchman has more for us tonight. gary, what's happening on the border route now. across?ioute now. who is coming across?goute now. who is coming across?houte now. who is coming across?toute now. who is coming across?ute now. who is coming across?te now. who is coming across?e now. who is coming across? now. who is coming across? >> don, what we're seeing is an influx of children and mothers and babies. what we've seen since memorial day, the past two weeks, when i say children coming on, i don't mean little children. i mean teenagers coming by themselves and mothers with their babies. the reason they tell us they are coming is two-fold. one because of increasing violence in central american, guatemala, honduras, el salvador. very few mothers are coming from mexico. they are trying to cross the border and the rule in the united states is if children or mothers and children come, they don't automatically get sent back to countries that are not contiguous to the united states. if they are not connected like canada and mexico, they know that, they are sick of the viol

it's frightening. >> and good for gary tuchman taking the time to do that story. it matters. and we're getting reports that the conditions aren't great. there are allegations of abuse. you have to take care of children. that's what this country is is about. no matter what. you've got to figure it out. i'm not saying you don't have to stop the hemorrhaging of people coming in but you can't use the kids as pawn. >>> coming up on "new day," the truck driver accused of causing the deadly accident that injured comedian tracy morgan gets his day in court. we're going to tell you what's going on in that case. there are developments for you. stay with us. co: sometimes you don't know you need a hotel room until you're sure you do. bartender: thanks, captain obvious. co: which is why i put the hotels.com mobile app on my mobile phone. hotels.com i don't need it right now. . >>> welcome back to "new day." not guilty. that's the plea from the truck driver in the crash that critically injured tracy morgan and left another comedian dead. 35-year-old kevin roper was arranged in new jersey

gary tuchman has more. >> reporter: anderson, the influx of children and mothers and their children fromtral america to the united states is not slowing down. but we find that many of them are taking a pit stop in northern mexico just before they cross over into the united states. they are taking the pit stops at the migrant shelters. while they were there, they were planning on how to get into the united states illegally. as we speak many of them may be on their way right now. there is also medical help. while we were there he was giving treatment for a man, a young man who has a serious cut on his hand from reaching on barbed wire on top of the border fence while he was trying to climb over. he did not successfully get over. most people when they try to get into the united states illegally, they try to avoid the barbed wire. it is easy to come into this country from mexico if you know where you're going or know the right people. this is the border fence, typically you can't climb over it or go through, but what the illegal immigrants do, they come through areas, we're in the middle of

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