we've already seen results from the $2.9 billion that hhs received. the numbers have decreased from the peak of 2700 in early june to approximately 300 today. and they spend significantly less time i time in the custody awaiting placement. unfortunately, congress denied the request for the adult bed space and we are seeing the results there as well. they continue to spend far too long and border patrol custody. we have more than 19,500 people in our custody which would decrease to less than 10,000 due to the decline in apprehensions at the close coordination with our partners three of 10,000 was the level the then commissioner called a breaking point when we first surpassed it in march. it's unsettling that we are now considering it to be a reprieve. to be clear, the crisis is not over. while the crisis is unlike anything that we have seen before, this isn't the first time border patrol served in a humanitarian role. the advanced specialized training of the border patrol search trauma and rescue units have been saving lives for more than 20 years. we

or hhs, they need i.c.e. and hhs to find a suitable place. >> how important is the money the president requested months ago and house democrats delayed before releasing it a week or two ago. >> we have not looked at that. we have ongoing work that is evaluating what cbp plan is for deploying funds. >> how long will it take funds to be deployed? >>o i couldn't tell you. some are meant to be spent this year. there's a small window where it could be spent. >> the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i want to thank inspector shaw for being here and testifying. you decided to spot check an inspection, processing center. you had complaints. who put in complaints? that was one of the reasons you made that inspection happen quickly. >> just to clarify, that's generally how we identify where to go with unannounced inspections. doesn't suggest we got a particular complaint about any particular facility, it is one of the factors we look at. >> the hot line,

a big part of the problem at yuma seems to be communication between hhs and cbp. the news of the allegation broke because nbc news obtained reports put together by hhs case managers after migrant children had left cbp custody. it is unclear to me if the information flowed efficiently and the way cbp could take immediate action to ensure well-being of children. what steps is cbp taking or have you already taken to improve response and ability to respond in timely fashion to allegations through hhs? mr. morgan: senator, you are right. there is definitely an area where we can improve the flow. there's an old saying, justice delayed is justice denied. i think we can get better that. once we saw that article, we immediately worked with ig, three separate allegations contained in the article, one of them was already being worked. the other two, we opened up our own investigations and went to hhs, oor to ask them about the alleged in the article. what we found is, on a consistent basis, oor sends those to crcl, which is good. it is another level of oversight. some allega

and hhs to respond to notification for pickup. is that possible? what story do you think would be told if we start looking at these various steps at the border as separate activities versus just in custody? >> well, i can certainly tell you, congressman, that as i've stated numerous times border patrol is the only ones that can't say no. if migrants come across the border illegally and present themselves into my men and women we have a legal responsibility to take them into custody, then they are in our care and custody. we don't have the ability to say, i'm sorry, i don't have any more space. whereas, i think as i mentioned earlier, it is critical that my partners at hhs and i.c.e. have the funding that they need to be able to take these folks out of our care and custody and once again, i will recognize certainly the efforts of this committee when it comes to the funding that was provided to hhs that has been a tremendous help. i certainly do not want 2,700 unaccompanied children in my custody. i would never want to see that again. and it has made

the child is supposed to be transferred into hhs custody. they require that these unaccompanied children became released the hhs departments and the regulations requires us all to be done within 72 hours but that isn't happening we have prolonged attention in many cases. >> cbp is between a rock and a hard place with their own regulations and the agreement by keeping these children they would be violating that i really think the children to anyone other than hhs who doesn't have the capacity to accept these children is that what is going on? >> they cannot unilaterally affect. they need to find a suitable place. >> how important is the $4.6 billion the president requested months ago and house democrats delayed for several months before for deploying the funds -- >> how long would it take them to be deployed? >> some of them are meant to be this year so there is a small window for which it could be spent. >> the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chair. you decided to stop check the inspection processin

ce, and cdp and hhs and oir mr. morgan: yes, sir, the coordination with uscis and ice is really done on a daily basis. theexample, we talked about interdependency we have specifically with the respect i sprayed one of the larger challenges of single adults. ice does not have adequate bed space, so it is a constant struggle with the number of apprehensions we have to be able to ensure and get them out of our custody as far as possible -- as fast as possible with ice. we coordinate with ice on a daily basis with how we can get those single adults out of our custody and into ice. with, obviously we work them on a daily basis. they are the ones that actually determined and adjudicate the claim as a go through the process. themtations work with constantly. dhs, again, this is not just a cdp or ice issue. it really is a dhs issue and outside of it. right now, we have hundreds of volunteers from across dhs that have been deployed to the southwest border to help us specifically with the humanitarian crisis. chairman johnson

hhs does not have the bed space. i.c.e. can't take the people from border patrol unless they have some place to put them with hhs. through hhs. previously, there were travel plans. they were actually accomplished by i.c.e. they would determine where the people were going. they could confirm the receiving entity at the other end. >> i think you're making my point that we have an issue with the immediate issue with children and families. how they are being held and then we have a long term policy issue of what we do going forward. either to deter it or take care of them or move it. there's two different issues. one very immediate for the health, safety and care particularly of tender age children and families and then we have the long term policy. >> what they are describing the health care is all about the overwhelming nature of the flow. you have -- >> you're not going to stop the flow in a day. we have to get through what we're doing now to take care of -- they're not these people. they are human beings. >> that's the reco

can't take the people from border patrol unless they have someplace to put them with hhs, through hhs. previously there were travel plans that were accomplished by i.c.e. they would determine where people were going. they would confirm the receiving entity at the other end. >> you're making the point, we have an issue with the immediate issue with children and families, how they're being held. then we have long term policy issue of what we do going forward to deter it or take care of them or move it. there are two different issues. one is immediate for the health, safety, care, particularly of tender age children and families, and long term policy issues. >> it is about the overwhelming nature of the flow. >> you're not going to stop the flow in a day, senator. we have to get through what we're doing now to take care of, they're not these people, they're human beings. >> that's the recommendation. >> i think that's the point, you can't disassociate the two. no one wouldn't argue they need to do better for the kids in the first 24 hours, without question. the capacity is so exceeded by

hhs is the federal entity designed to handle children. border patrol, because of the flores settlement, is supposed to have these children ready to transfer within 72 hours. right now they're having them ready within 42 hours. but i.c.e. and hhs doesn't have the capacity in order to take folks. and it's unfortunate, you know, when many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted against an amendment that i put forward, about $2 billion more for hhs to deal with this crisis. they voted against that. i tried to get 100 more judicial teams. because the backlog of these immigration cases, we have 900,000 people that are still trying to get through the system. we should be able to get an immigration case done within nine months. they voted against judicial -- increasing the judges. >> but isn't the issue here that the democrats have not really with your amendment but lack of trust with the trump administration. they don't -- you could make a strong argument that the decision to pull aid from the central american countries, which i kn

and congress, fund hhs, money to buy to get more hhs beds to house families to have the proper facilities congress will not do nothing about the crisis. >> isn't that part of the backup. you don't have ice or hhs with the facilities to house the families and the children, court order by law have to be housed separately and make comfortable. >> gunther: we were never prepared to jump from 500 to 5,000. but that is not new. this has been going on for a year. president trump has been told over and over by immigration attorneys and judges to provide more resources to process the people. >> raymond: he's been asking congress so very quickly, what is the answer? how do we stop this extraordinary flow that we are seeing, tom homan? >> tom: we close the loopholes. if the family comes across asylum let's hold them long enough to see a judge. that is only way to guarantee a judge.le we built the first familyet detention center and 90% of the cases we sent them home. the border numbers plummeted. it works. >> raymond: i wish i had more time because i could be here all night. thank you, tom, guenther

i was at a dinner party, and the next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, very nice person, and she

i would refer you for an official answer to that data and to hhs. my understanding is that every single child has an identified parent relationship at this point. >> okay. we'll refer out to that. i have another couple things. of course your department has a lot of work to do to regain the public trust, including mine. as you leave td the department forward, will you commit to truthfully respond to the committee that your department won't mislead us again in the way we were mislead last year when i visited the border no matter what the severity of issues are at hand. >> law enforcement depends on public trust. that's a fundamental requirement to carry out our mission and carry out our jobs. i will ensure that as long as i'm acting, we'll do our level best to explain what's happening to congress, to the american people on all aspects of our mission. >> thank you. i have one last question quickly on family separation. the training that you're providing for the dhs officers determine or not whether families are falling into the criteria of needing to b

you work at dhs at hhs on this topic here.roversy last year erupted over family separations, it became clear they did not have a great system in place for making sure the kids were reunited with their else tpa. secretary azar, are you confident they have a system some place to make sure the 900 kids can be reunited and we won't see the failures we saw last year. >> again, as you mentioned, we don't do any separating here at hhs. we get children unaccompanieuna under 18 and our job is to care for them. >> but you are part of the process of reunifying. >> we have improved the information systems between dhs and us. we are always relying on what information dhs provides to us. we added into our portal, our tracking system for all of these kids, a data field to expressly contain information if any child has been separated from a parent and it to include information about the parent, their alien number, their parents, to always keep them connected. that keblgtist is a high priority for us. we are always dependent on the information

hhs would have the child at the time. >> what went wrong? why were they not being able to be reunited? sec. mcaleenan: if you go back and look at the filings, very early in this process before these different parts have concluded, hhs sponsorship immigratione ice in court process for the adults, in a matter of weeks, based on the , put all together in spreadsheets and works manually by a team. childs time, every single has had their parent identified and has either been reunited or if there is a decision they cannot be for child welfare issues. >> there is not a single child that has not been reunited or has not been -- or their parents have not been identified? sec. mcaleenan: they have identified apparent in every case and they have taken the appropriate action as specified in the court filings. >> may i ask you this? in self reflective moments, are you proud of how this whole situation has happened? do you have some regrets? >> i have answer the question in many times. if i could go back and redo it, i would. >> have about beyond the prog

the inspector general at hhs issued a report in january of 2019. that report found that the trump administration and i quote, faced significant challenges in identifying separated children including the lack of existing integrated data system to track separated families across hhs and dhs, and the complexity of determining which children should be considered separated. they also criticized your agency, dhs provided orr with limited information about the reasons for the separations which may impede orr's ability to determine appropriate placements. as a result, the ig found that the separated children, and i quote, were still being identified more than five months after the original court order to do so. both the ig reports were issued before you made your statements in april. so mr. secretary, have you read those reports? >> yes, i have. >> and then how in the world can you sit here today under oath and defend your statement that you kept very careful records that you worked with hhs very effectively and efficiently and that you reunited children e

what they said, the judge in his ruling said hhs cannot do more than what congress has authorized the responsibility rests with congress to act in the first instance this is what the judge had said. >> so the next move now is on capitol hill >> possibly, but what's interesting is if you look at drug stocks, they are reacting pretty positively. some folks are telling me it's because they think if trump can't get this done, he's not going to get anything worse for the drug industry done what other people are interpreting this as is trump might be annoyed this didn't work and he might push harder on more draconian measures. there's a way to read it when the market is not pricing in >> sooyou later. >> coming up, walmart's acquisition of jet.com was supposed to boost its edge against amazon, but new reports say it's done just the opposite. details coming up. >>> first, a venture capitalist is hoping virgin galactic is that company ps nextes, tlaand what sets it apart from spacex that's coming up in rad udfire as someone in witness protection, i can't tell you anything about myself. but be

hhs had exhibited some of the sharing and the information during the course of this moa. but we're prevented from using that. >> given that children may already be present in a sponsor's household how does i.c.e. ensure the safety and well-being of children -- excuse me -- during enforcement actions and what arrangements are made for these children? >> so certainly we take the safety of children of utmost importance as we plan any operation. in fact, the entire moa exists as the vult of some tragic circumstances in which uac replaced some traffickers. this was an attempt to provide some traffickers and other individuals who may do harm from these children from getting sponsors into their custody. our research as we're going through these cases, nearly 40% of the people who were sponsors actually had criminal records. so there are certainly calls for concern with regard to individual sponsoring the children. with regard to your exact question we have extensive training that we provide to all of our field offices. we have field office juvenile court enters, juvenile potenti

hhs is not ready for them, so now they are being held in border patrol custody.handle minors every year, just not this many. they don't have the facilities to safely house them. david: the main issue is the children and the conditions they are held in. at the same time, officers are seeing and experiencing this every day. what toll is this taking on the officers? john: i don't think any of this is good. unfortunately, they bear the brunt of the criticism. people don't really understand, this is not their fault. a lot of it is the resources they have been given, and they hand.alt an unwinnable abilityl hinder their to do their job for years to come. it definitely hurts the morale of the agents who are saying i am doing the best i can and i look like the bad guy here. david: you know the situation better than most people. take a step back. forgetere up to you -- about republicans, democrats, any of the above -- what would you do to fix it? john: we have to start treating this like a refugee crisis, not a security crisis. these people do not actively pose a threat.

>> hhs documents this once they leave the facility.a statement from customs and border protection, they say the u.s. customs and border protection treats those in our custody with dignity and respect and provides multiple avenues to report any allegations of misconduct. the allegations do not align with common practice at our facilities and will be fully investigated. it is important to note that the allegation of sexual assault is already under investigation by the department of homeland security office of inspector general. >> so the inspector general has this. when the inspector general gets a report like this, presumably they don't announce it until they have an adjudication. >> we don't know anything in the public until there's an adjudication. and we might not know if there's a firing. we hope they will respond now that these allegations are known so people will know is this man still working, is this allegation what it sounds like? it needs some investigating and the more and more we get into this, it sounds more from the trump

the people at hhs the money they need to get them the facility. no one wants to see that. . . . i asked congress to things all yield back. first well, something that's good to point out, these facilities were not built for children. number two, you have given three solutions that i agree one 100% would begin to solve the problem. i can assure you this side of the aisle, we will do everything we can to work with the trump administration to implement that. it takes 218 votes to pass legislation and move it to the senate. we have about a hundred 98 and i hope we can work in a bipartisan way. to get to a solution in this congress it will take bipartisan support. with that i yield back. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i wanted to, i wondered if you could answer a couple questions that i was unable to get answered during our visit. are you aware of exactly what is the temperature where families are being detained should be at, and secondarily, what is the heat index need to be outside for people to be moved from tense inside. >> i don't know the answer to that ques

>> i think they should bring back jeh johnson back and appoint him head of hhs. i met with people down at the border that he not only visited but his wife came back and volunteered and worked as a volunteer in that center to help the asylum seekers. his policy was the right policy. if he wanted to help the families not separate and hurt the families, let's work together like we did on the 9/11 bill to address this situation. help the families and bring some faith in america back. we need hope for the future. we need to address the horrible treatment that people have gotten at the border. it's unamerican, it's unfamiliarally, unchildren, unsafe, unsanitary, just plain wrong. we can do the right thing, let's get together and do it. >> and congresswoman, i want to get your response, at least one presidential candidate on the democratic trail calls the president's tweets today unamerican, to borrow a word from you. the president this morning with these racist comments. your other colleagues have spoken out. house speaker nancy pelosi responded saying in part that his

were extremely concerned because they're going to go into hhs custody. the lesson we want is a 24-year-old male being in custody with a bunch of 10-year-old boys. that's an untenable situation. our overarching goal is to keep the safety of these children. we have identified 59 of those, 58 have been prosecuted it's been a tremendous partner. >> thank you for your service. i yield back. >> missed regular. >> thank you manager. on tuesday this week you told reporters that the reason ice rates were successful is because the agency had the element of surprise. he also said that when media attention is drawn to potential ice rates it inhibits the ability of ice agents to do their job, set up your summary? >> i'm not sure is the element of surprise with the media attention that guy, but i'm not sure of the exact quotes make typically when congressional offices asked for additional information about rumored raids, ice frequently tells us that information cannot be shared because of pending operations, you know that is generally the response we receive, correct?

our requests on may 1st for the resources we needed to save the situation for children moving to hhs custody. we have under 200 unaccompanied children in custody and only a few of them are staying with border patrol stations over 72 hours. and usually those are medical cases. hhs now has the funding from congress to create additional bed space and move those kids out to a more appropriate setting. >> you also have june. historically, june, the numbers drop. at this point we're all for progress. but in terms of what policies work, it's hard, mr. commissioner, to say -- mr. secretary now, that this is about the changes in policy. we still don't know what the long-term plays are here. not because of you, but you are a piece in a larger machine. you shut down funding to the triangle countries, you don't have the right types of relationships, this can't get any better, whether it's june or not. so what do you need going forward to make this system work? >> first, i would say that we can attribute it to the partnership with mexico and our efforts to tackle the criminal organizations doing

. >> hhs certified that puerto rico was reliable reporting data and establishing medicaid fraud control unit? >> yes, that's correct. >> how duds the inn equal treatment under medicaid program and the fact that we are losing a lot of our people every year, how has the government of puerto rico had the ability to budget to reform our healthcare system if we don't receive the money? >> we are not allowed to forecast any funding that we don't have any assurance. it has to be certified. this is because the fiscal board requires that. >> so the oversight board required to the island to include all future plans regarding healthcare and that means if we don't receive the money the state, in this case puerto rico, needs to put up front the money from the state to do the job that the federal government is supposed to do in the state? >> yes, that's correct. >> thank you. i will wait for a second round of questions. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i'd like the ranking member's suggestion, but thank you. this time i'd like to recognize the jeptel lady from the united states virgin islands, ms. plasket

hhs has additional beds, we only have 350 as of yesterday and only 20 of those children have been withore than three days. >> for starters, it should be pointed out these facilities were never intended for children in the first place in any number for any length of time. for the numbers themselves, we can only take the acting secretary on fifth and given the reporting from so many different sources including the government itself. it's a heavy lift given that nick valencia was allowed into the facility late last month it was a sham, a cbp official with firsthand knowledge telling cnn the agency prepped for you guys adding quote it's a never ending cat and mouse game. given all that, the burden of proof would seem to be on administration but so far they have chosen to make it as difficult as possible to get a look at what is really happening inside these facilities. the new acting director of u.s. citizen and immigration services, i spoke to him earlier this evening. acting director, i want to talk about these facilities we've been hearing so much about. did operators at the clint facil

as much a setting as we can with the children in our custody but the big point was to move them to hhs so we had 2500 children in custody 1200 over three days now we have the supplemental from congress it is being denied hhs has added additional beds only 350 as of yesterday only 20 have been longer so that is a huge improvement. today i talked to cbp official that no point in time has of the system facility been lacking in supplies for migrant children. those are his words we should look into that to make sure that's the case when my friends across the aisle didn't request emergency funding for two months cbp began paying for supplies out of their operational budget or their own pocket to make sure things were taken care of. my chief of staff went this weekend because i felt so strongly looking into my colleagues work claiming i cannot go because i do family conflict but he took pictures i'm sorry he observed into the pictures you will see here which is from the video of a border patrol head in arizona i believe. they are providing facilities and materials in food other pictures show

hhs and we don't have the capacity there either. it is backing right up to border patrol, right? >> it is. everyone in the entire system is overwhelmed right now. that is absolutely correct. you're holding these individuals longer than we want to. you do not want to be holdings individuals longer than 72 hours. if we could get rid of them quicker, that would be great. we don't want to be holding kids in detention facilities which were not designed for that. if we had zero in custody, that would be great. is no incentive, you are not trying to hold children longer than the 72 hours. you would like to turn them over as quickly as possible, it is not possible right now? capacity.that maximum they need additional funding. >> you talked about a case where a child was purchased for $84. you also listed a number of different steps in terms of how many people have been apprehended with fraudulent documents. in the scheme of things, and they're looking at over 400,000 accompanying children coming in as family units. one of the things i was trying to get a sense of is how prevalent that he

we had word from detainees and we have the inspectors general from hhs and dhs saying so. so the only people who seem to be on the other side of this thing are the administration. >> that's right. we have video, we have picture evidence. i think that was really striking about this hearing is just how many people on the other side still deny that the conditions in these facilities, especially at the customs and border patrol stations are unsafe and unsanitary. and, indeed, they are illegal under current law. >> in what way are they illegal and what can you do about it? >> well, there are two things we can do. but first they are illegal under current u.s. law. just take the flores decision which talks about the conditions under which children can temporarily be detained. they can be detained no more than 72 hours in these cvp stations. they have been detained far in excess of that time period. and the flores decision says that they must be kept in safe and sanitary conditions and based on what we've seen and the eyewitness testimony, that is also untrue. people sleeping on m

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my experience was dhs had a tendency to point to hhs. and hhs had a tendency to point to dhs., it's theirs. do you think there's been enough effort to really call the secretary of hhs in, because after so many days, as you know, the responsibility another children shift from the department of homeland security to the department of health and human services. and secretary azar who runs that agency, i don't think i've seen him sweat enough about their failures to supervise these children, especially the children as you say have family in this country. what is going on in terms of holding hhs accountable? >> that is a great point that you bring up. we actually had a hearing on family separation. we had ccp, hhs, dhs, and one of the things i find troubling is there's so much incompetence in all of those agencies. the lack of communication. yes, secretary azar has a lot of arrogance to him. i know he visited the center actually that friday we came with the presidential candidates to visit when we were not allowed in. he was actually in miami that day. and when you see and hear him

we immediately begin the process of finding a sponsor for that child, once they're turned over to hhs. >> now, hhs provides these children with six hours ever daily classroom instructions, access to arts and crafts, three meals a day, access to call centers to reunite with their family, as well as legal services. >>> vice president mike pence will be in southern california today. the vice president is expected conference about a large multiagency drugseizure in the pacific. >>now 6:15. the mayor washington, d.c. says congress is not giving that city enough money to pay the cost of major national events. muriel browser says congress budgets just a million dollars. when the actual cost is $16 million. she said the cialso spent $3 million just for president trump's inauguration. and still have not been reimbursed. >> the city should know. we're having to dip into reserves. making sure we can pay those checks. we will pay them, but we're having to dip into our budget to pay it because donald trump won't pay his bill. >> she's asking the president to pay his bills. >>> right now, 6:16. i w

they're only supposed to be there a short amount of time and then to hhs.d into society. it's dangerous for the kids and makes the border less safe and our country less safe. >> neil: and the people you used to work, with they're doing baby sitting and addressing these issues and not policing the border. will things change with the monies appropriated for public security, cbp? how will that be ironed out? >> hhs will have steady capacity for the children that need to go into the care. cbp will get additional funding to help conditions. if the laws didn't change, we'll be in the same place we are next year. congress needs to act. the president has used all the tools available to him, including threat of tariffs against mexico. that helped mobilize them on their southern border. remains to be seen whether they can sustain that. if the laws don't change, people will continue to send their children to the border or bring their kids to the border. >> neil: it's not been unknown in the past but ratcheted up the last eight or nine months. where does this go? >> we

since they gave the money to hhs more beds, children are being moved quicker but still a surge of theder. chuck schumer does not remember he said it's a manufactured crisis. he said that numerous times and has ignored this crisis right to the very end. again, went down there and vilified many women aboard a patrol but what ideas did he come to the table with? eric: vilified the administration and said that in a tweet considering the conditions. quote, this is not acceptable. a child telling us he's not able to even to brush his teeth in a facility on our southern border. these are human beings, children, kids, families fleeing violence and its not who we are. it's so crowded were told they had to stand and people have to sleep in shifts because there's no room and have young kids and one young man talking to who says he's not been able to rush his teeth. new members of congress and your members of the ministration so i can't besides get this together and try to do something on a wider basis to solve this problem? >> that's a great question. the same question i asked last week when i t

the average rebate according to hhs is 28% right now the pbms and insurance companies take that rebate and spread it across their planned beneficiaries to lower premiums for everyone what the trump administration rules sought to do was instead apply those rebates directly to the price of drugs at the pharmacy counter the patient being prescribed the drug could be paid a lower price at the pharmacy. but because they wouldn't be spread across, premiums could go up and we're hearing that's why the white house killed this rule they didn't want premiums to go up on medicare beneficiaries, particularly, guys, right before the election >> that's exactly what we were talking. come on over with ana gupta going back, what was the unintended consequences of this be hey, you want to lower drug prices, but what happens if insurance premiums as a result of that go up for everybody, which is fascinating so meg, the question now is, as bertha said, you're seeing pressure on some of the drug companies today, the united healths of the world are looking a little bit better. so now what's the state of pla

hhs contracts most with nonprofits to run most of the shelters. there are some for-profit entities in parts of it. most of the images that have been shown on tv recently, particularly clint, particularly ursula and mcallen, those are cbp facilities. those are not privately owned detention centers. those are cbp processing facilities at the border. so, just in terms of who is making money, i wanted to emphasize that particular piece of it. >> i'm just going to say whether you can ascribe motives or not, it's clear that this administration knows for how dangerous many of the areas on the mexican side of the border are, that they are turning people back to. people from el salvador, from guatemala, from honduras, from venezuela, from cuba are being dumped back, delivered back to dangerous areas where they are now forced to remain for many, many, many months. people have been rapes, people have been assaulted. people have been kidnapped. people been put into sexual slavery. the reports that are coming out of the things that are happening to people, whi