the junior senator from texas visited lackland air force base recently and observe some of these 1200 if i'm not mistaken children who are being essentially warehouse because we don't have anyplace to put them and buy comment on what we are going to do if the numbers continue to grow at the level they are going now. i know 2011 there were 6000 unaccompanied minors obtained at the southwestern border. this year since october if somewhere in the 50,000 range and if that number continues to escalate where we going to put all these kids? >> i think my friend the senior senator from texas and i'm honored to stand here with the senior senator from texas and the senator from arizona as we speak out together against the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding on our border. president obama today came to the state of texas but sadly he's not visiting the border. he's not visiting the children who are suffering as a result of the failures of the obama policies. instead he's doing fund-raisers. he's visiting democratic fat-cats to collect checks and apparently there is no time to look at the disas

human tragedy of children who have made a long trek from central america to lackland air force base. the reports are as many as 1/3 of the children, talking about the female children, as many as 1/3 have been raped or abused on the way to the united states. there are reports of leasing children. the thought is in central america that if you come with a child, you're more likely to be able to stay. so they are leasing children. >> i want to ask you about the girls who have been assaulted. they've been assaulted on their way, assaulted at these american facilities? where are you talking about? what evidence do you have? that's a very strong charge. >> it is. these are reports that have come from lackland air force base, both border patrol and other officials down there. it was representative henry quillar from texas. this is not a partisan issue. this is a human suffering issue. we need to understand what are the policies that resulted in this? as far as when these atrocities took place, they actually took place on the way to the united states. the problem here is we have an insecure b

yet, somehow he didn't have time to go visit lackland air force base and see the 1,200 children being held there, who are paying the price for the failure of the obama immigration policy. in the coming weeks he's headed to martha's vineyard. he's, i'm sure, going to enjoy himself palling around with swills, and yet the people held in detention facilities up and down the border are not going to see the commander in chief because he cannot be bothered to address the human suffering. he was just in california, in hollywood. the producer of "scandal" hosted him. you know, that's kind of fitting, because it is scandalous that the president has more time to be fund-raiser in chief than he does to do his basic job as commander in chief and securing our borders. let me tell you, while the president was running around collecting chems -- checks from democratic party fat cats, i was back home in texas. i was on the border this weekend in mcallen. i sat down with the chief of the border patrol of mcallen, i sat down with the line officers on the border patrol in mcallen. i visited detention faci

i recently led a congressional delegation to mcallen, texas, and to lackland air force base to see firsthand what the administration was doing to handle this border crisis. it was clear to me that the hardworking men and women on the front lines of this crisis are doing the best that they can under very difficult circumstances. we should pass this important bill to provide the necessary resources to fairly address this humanitarian crisis. we should provide customs and border protection the resources they need to pay their agents overtime when needed and to provide the necessary food, water, and medical supplies to these children. my colleagues and i saw children in thin the c.v.p. facilities as young as seven. many arrived severely malnutritioned. they are clearly desperate. they are not traveling here simply because they want to. they are fleeing mortal danger at the hands of violent drug gangs, which have rendered their countries some of the most dangerous places to live. we should be working together to make sure that these children are given proper care in our facilities and that our c.

now, i went up to lackland air force base. now, the children are being cared for in unused dormitories that once housed our air force. we have new facilities pour our enlisted personnel. but do you know that we pay for that, that the department of health and human services has to pay the department of defense to house those children and because it's on a military base, with all the rules and regs associated with that, it is the most expensive housing we can have, but it is the best housing that we have, and right now because of this rejectionist fear that is being promulgated through our country like somehow or other these children pose a danger to us, it is the best we can do. and i will tell you it's a very nice facility. and i saw it being operated by a faith-based organization, the baptist conference. hats off to them. i speak now as a social worker, a professionally trained social worker. it was one of the most outstanding child welfare service organizations i'd seen from the nurses to the social workers to those who were

the bi-partisan group is expected to visit the border patrol's station in mcallen and lackland air force base from which many of the children are flown to other stations for processing. gutierrez is a member of the house hispanic caucus and has been a vocal champion for immigration reform. governor quinn signed a new law allowing more school workers to administer emergency injections to someone having a life- threatening allergic reaction. trained school employees and volunteers will now be allowed to give epinephrine injections to students or visitors. previously, only nurses could do it. but, not all schools have them. illinois attorney general lisa madigan, who pushed for the law, says at least 25-percent of first-time allergic reactions occur in schools. >> we strongly in courage not just teachers and administrators, but other volunteers and parents to learn how to do this because it's something we want people to know how to do in school. >>the new law also allows students to carry and administer their own epinephrine injections, with parental consent. the c-d-c says one in 25 childr

confidential legal screenings to nearly 1200 unaccompanied children currently in hhs custody at lackland air forcebase in san antonio, texas. we have carefully reviewed the intakes of 925 children so far, and our assessment is that 63% of these 925 children are likely to become eligible for release by a u.s. immigration judge. in ricels's many years of expenses, the cases our staff and volunteers have accepted the representation using this screening process, ultimately has a success rate over 98% in proceedings before immigration judges. ricels's legal determination are supported by hundreds of cable educations on behalf of our unaccompanied children clients. the children we serve at lackland are fleeing unspeakable violence. the vast majority are from honduras, el salvador and guatemala. are integers can from that many of these children are victims of sexual assault, trafficking, domestic abuse, gang intimidation, persecution and torture. ricels staff and volunteers have met with girls as young as 12 years old who fled criminal gangs attending to force them into sexual exploitation. the phenomeno

report in foxnews.com bid to starns who documents many of these children in a facility in texas lackland air force have measles, scabies, lies, tremendous amounts of them. they are being bused and airplaned to various locations. those kind of things remain in airplanes. it's a virtual pee tree dish it would seem to me for the spread of some of these diseases. >> yeah. which sort of compounds the tragedy. i think there are reasons that we are seeing this influx and reasons that we're seeing it now. just a couple years ago we had 14,000 child my -- migrants come to the united states. there is projections as high as 130,000 for next year. no question we are seeing a a surge. i think the reasons are basically two fold one as charles mentioned the president's policies. there has been open door policy by the president 'of the united states. also a sense that that policy is going to change. that there will be, whatever kind of reform comes out of congress, comes out of the administration, comes out of compromise after the election. there will be change and there will be some tightening of the border. and

number two, when what is with the first lady of honduras at lackland air force base, we started talking to the young kids and we asked them, because they are young girls. they are young 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old girls and boys. we asked about the young girls. health and human services told us 1/3 get raped coming up here. what people don't talk about is, think about the ones that never made it across. think about the ones that the drug cartels and smugglers decided to keep down there in mexico. it's a very tragic, very difficult situation for this young kids coming across. >> a heartbreaking situation that needs action immediately. democratic congressman henry cuellar of texas, thank you so much. >> governor rick perry who ran unsuccessfully to unseat president obama in 2012 will meet with the president after a back and forth over invery itation etiquette, deserving of a miss manners column. hint. i want to bring in dana bastion. they will meet tomorr . >> it looks like the meeting between a president and border state governor whose state is in crisis. you don't have to dig deep to see a

you know, several weeks ago i was at lackland air force base where there are roughly 1200 of these childreneing kept. and it's important to understand these little boys, these little girls, are being brought into this country not by well-meaning social workers with birkenstocks and beards. they're being brought in by violent, vicious drug cartels. and these little boys and little girls are being physically assaulted, being sexually assaulted. and it's really sad to see president obama and the democrats unwilling to do anything to solve this crisis. you look at the president's proposed supplemental. it's a very cynical bill because it's all hhs social spending with nothing to solve the problem. which means the president is assuming next year tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of little boys continue to be brought in by drug dealers and cartels, continue to be physically sexually assaulted, that is not compassionate. that is not humane. the compassionate humane thing to do is enforce the law and stop president obama's amnesty that's the direct cause of all these little girls. >> they

we're housing them at lackland air force base, we're housing them at all sorts of facilities.nything we can find, we're using. and it takes time to get these children processed and reunited with an adult that will eventually take care of them. >> it's funny you put it that way. do you understand -- obviously you've been getting some -- probably hearing from your own constituents. do you understand why there are protests or do you think that these protests are a bit uninformed? >> i think the protests are uninformed. there's a facility that houses several hundred of these children four blocks from my home in corpus christi, texas. it's not a problem for the community. this is a humanitarian crisis. the whole country needs to step up and help out. >> so i take it that the request from the president, he's estimated and i think it comes from jay johnson at homeland security, a need of about $2 billion. more border patrol agents, more facilities, speeding up the process of making these decisions about deportation. i take it in general you're going to be supportive of this? >> we've

. >> my sources inside a camp for illegals at lackland air force base say it's one giant emergency room. >> measles, scabies, and lice ran rampant among the immigrants. >> we don't even know all the diseases and how extensive the diseases are. >> these are diseases sometimes that they're bringing in that our doctors are not used to seeing. >> if you have people that are homeless and have all sorts of diseases invading neighborhoods and you're not made aware that they're coming, that's a big problem. >> they say kids have scabies, say they have chickenpox, and all-out epidemic of lice, so severe they say the bugs can be seen crawling down the faces of the children. >> fears of disease among the unaccompanied migrant children coming up from central america are vastly overblown. as documented in an excellent piece, out today in the "texas on server." when it comes to infectious diseases, children in the central american countries where most of the children are coming from are often more likely to be vaccinated than american children. for example, unicef reports that 93% of kids in guatemal

to the border region on june 20 and they had the opportunity to visit facilities as well as lackland air force base, where some of those who had been the pain -- those who had been apprehended had been detained. senator novalis was there on june 25 where he reviewed customs and border facilities, again, to assess the situation on the ground. the ability of officials to process those who had been apprehended. this time secretary johnson and secretary burwell to south texas on jen -- on june 30 where they took a tour of the facilities and participated in discussion at the lackland shelter on lessons learned, challenges, best practices for detaining these individuals. the cep commissioner earlier this week traveled to mcallen, where he participated in a news conference and delivered a message to families in central america that are sending their children -- putting their children in the hands of some of the criminal networks that have sprouted up to transport children to the southwest border is not a good idea. the point in reviewing all of that is to make clear to you and your readers that senio

this camp is in san antonio, lackland air force base.bout 7,000 kids go through this camp. and now i've had workers at this facility break their confidentiality agreements and tell me what's actually happening there. they are very concerned about the diseases that are there, that the children have, and the fact that at least their allegation to me is that the federal government is covering this up and they're not actually being honest about the extent of the illnesses there. >> what you just said was extraordinary there about the middle of that paragraph was they broke their confidentiality agreement with the federal government. you would think a if they were assisting the federal government, the federal government would be forthcoming with details about the condition of these kids. but they don't want anybody knowing a lot of these kids unfortunately are very, very ill. >> they certainly are. as a matter of fact, the workers tell me they were told that if anyone dared speak out about the conditions, what's happening inside these camps,

same thing occurred at lackland air force base in san antonio.were allowed to go down there, you can't talk to anybody. you can't talk to the staff. you can't take any photographs. you can't do any audio recording. you can't do anything. you have to follow us along the trail and we will show you what we want you to see. why are they acting this way? because they have something to hide. and that is very unfortunate. congressman bridenstein is right. >> i think everyone can understand wanting to protect the children in this situation which i think is what the administration would say is reason for that. why you can't talk to staff, people heading up operations down there? that is completely undemocrattic on any definition that you can think of. these are pictures that we have so far. we're working to get more. congressman poe, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you, martha. bill: 20 minutes past now. operation "fast & furious" back in the spotlight today. there is a group talking to a judge asking for critical information. will t

and i saw fantastic work being done while the children were being placed at lackland air force base and that the social services were being run by -- under contract by faith-based organization the baptist church. now, i know the distinguished presiding officer knows a lot about human services. i myself am a social worker, and i will tell you that faith-based organization is really running a good program for these kids, but we are running out of money. we need money for food and shelter for the children. we need money for the border agents. we need money for transportation to shelters and also transportation when we can return these children home. we need money for immigration judges and legal services for the children to determine their asylum status. as i said, we need the muscular deterrence in the home country breaking up the organized gangs that then create the violence that then sets these children on their journey. the best way to make sure that the surgery of children is stopped is not by harsher immigration roles. it's -- rules. it's by making it hard on the drug dealers and the

and from a financial standpoint, we're paying $500 a day to keep some of these children at lackland air force base. that adds up real quick. paying the judges is going to be more economically feasible than care for these children over the long term. >> does that address the immediate concern that there simply aren't enough facilities to house a lot of these unaccompanied minors, and they're being put in holding facilities that aren't appropriate for children. that's the most immediate concern, isn't it? >> right, but if we don't have to wait years for the hearings and able to process them in a week, the facility that is we have, one of which is about three blocks from my home in corpus christi texas won't be so overrun. >> you are a republican that represents a constituency that is almost 50% hispanic. how personal is this issue for your constituents? you brought up a great example be how it is affecting your district. >> what i'm hearing from back home is we've got to take care of the children, but we've got to discourage them from making this dangerous trek on top of a train across mexico,

detention facilities in mcallen, texas, and i've seen the 1rks200 children being sheltered at lackland air forcee in san antonio. most disturbing of all, i've heard the stories about the most god-awful journey anyone should ever have to experience. we're here today because we have a responsibility to stop this crisis. the president has failed to lead, so i firmly believe this chamber must act. doing nothing is not an option. since june when the speaker asked me to lead a working group to provide policy recommendations on what we can do to address the crisis, i've been to the texas-mexico border twice and led a co-dell to guatemala and honduras to see where the children are coming from and why. i'll be returning to the border tomorrow for a third time the members of the working group dove head first into this issue to understand this crisis and provide recommendations for short-term, immediate response. the policies we reck mened are not an attempt for immigration reform, they are serious solutions to address this crisis. i want to take a moment to recognize the -- recognize the hard work of the

shelters have been established like the one at lackland air force base in san antonio. we've all seen the photos of hundreds of children piled on top of each other and the flow shows no signs of abating. every member of this committee, including myself, is gravely concerned about the safety of children no matter where they come from. since october, 52,000 -- 52,000 -- unaccompanied minors have crossed into the united states from mexico. nearly two-thirds of those cross through receithe rio grande valn texas. cvp estimates that next year, more than 150,000 unaccompanied children may attempt to cross our borders. this is a crisis. it's a crisis that's been in the making for years, one that we should have seen coming. but few concrete actions have been taken. the department of homeland security and the united states government as a whole has been slow to act, turning a blind eye to the warning signs. the fact is these children are making a dangerous journey based on misinformation and the false promise of amnesty. the first step is for the administration to acknowledge the

i'veul walked the halls of lackland air force base with secretary johnson.ve been down to mcallen and other locations. ita is absolutely heartbreaking. however if we're, we want to make an impact here, want to make some inroads here, we have to make some tough decisions. yount know, we've got to, you know, work very closely with guatemala and others, guatemala, to shore up their northern border. mexico to shore up their southern border with guatemala. wegu have to be, continue to be very proactive from standpoint ofno investigating the networks. and when these individual make it into the country, we've got to make sure they have their due process. once they, a decision is made to remove, be able to remove quickly. i think, when you look at the issues that we're faced in 2006 with the brazilians and years before that, we had a rash much hondurans as i understand, what changed the dynamic of it all was the ability to apprehend detained and deport quickly. and i believe we need to have more discussion on that. and i think, that's, to me, is the critical issue w

air force may 10, 1962. i was discharged out of wilford .all at lackland air force base i was discharged from a mental institutiongressman o'rourke, i have served my country honorably. i am having trouble receiving my benefits. theuld like to know, out of $17 billion, my claims -- i september 17,im 2010. ofy paid me severance pay $17,500. they turned around and made me repay that severance pay and they took my disability for 14.5 years. host: congressman o'rourke, any thoughts? guest: thank you for your service. i appreciate the question. you've hit upon a larger issue this morning, which is we can spend more money on the v.a., we can add resources, but if we do not place a premium on performance, excellent, and accountability, then we will have allowed this crisis we are in to go to waste. you see that on the veterans benefits administration side of the house at the v.a. as well. in waco, texas, where claims for el paso veterans are processed, we were seeing wait times on a first-time service-connected days onty claim of 470 average. that means some veterans were waiting much longer, perhaps veterans like mr. ma

i also have sources at a refugee camp at lackland air force base and the nurses there, some of my sourceshat it is far worse there. they're telling me at least four teen-agers are infected with tuberculosis and that number may be growing. dr. mark siegle tells me that the strain of tuberculosis that is common in central america is that drug resistant kind. >> you know what, mr. trump, maybe that's why they wouldn't let that congressman in to the facility in his own district last week. they don't want the images getting out what's going on in there, particularly if there is a disease problem. >> well, tb, as you probably know, is very, very contagious. it spreads like wildfire. what can you say? does it get worse than this? does it really get worse? i mean, at every single level, but -- i was thinking about it the other day as i saw everybody pouring into the country. i said what about disease? they're not people that have had medical care and now i guess they'll be taken care of under obamacare. >> cost our economy $34 billion, all these people coming in. i thought newt gingrich had a com

last week with the h1n1 flu virus and is now being treated at lackland air force base in san antonio. medical experts say this one case isn't cause for alarm. the h1n1 virus is already common in the united states. this past flu season it was actually the most prevalent strain. some, though, are back to calling it the swine flu, harkening it back to the fear of 2009 when h1n1 first broke out in america. >> i think you need to balance responsible public health, scientific, rooted analysis debate and decisions against those old divisive drumbeats of fearmongering that have accompanied waves of immigrants throughout the history. on the front lines the scare tactics have trickled down. >> bottom line is they have diseases. >> we don't want your unhealthy people coming here making our kids and my wife and my mother and father sick. >> and there are some health concerns from those three busses stopped tuesday in california at the national border patrol counsel confirms, of the 136 immigrants screened, ten children are at local hospitals for unknown ailments and seven additional kids are quar

lackland air force base, the border patrol academy barracks at artesia, new mexico.ch better and nicer facilities than certainly a border patrol holding cell. >> very important to remind people that most of these undocumented are just kids, and in that innocence we have to protect them. let me ask you. it is now politically sailable to say we have to seal up the border. we need to do it now. this is proof of it, these undocumented kids. do you believe practically you'll ever be able to seal the southern border of the united states? >> i guess my analogy would be i was a police chief for a long time, both in buffalo and also in seattle. people would ask me is this a safe city? everyone had a different definition, so if we look at our border today, we have more resources, not only border patrol agents but technology. we have great working relationships, for instance, with the texas department of public safety, local sheriffs departments, local police departments. the border is more secure and more safe, and when you look at those crime numbers in those cities in the un

there was a group outside of lackland air force base in san antonio, and the kids actually were begging for workers to come and to hold them and to hug them. many of these kids want to go back home. they want to go back home and that story is not getting out. they don't know what's going on. >> todd starnes thank you so much for that. >> coming up next, an islamic terror plot to blow up some of the world's most iconic spots have been exposed. >> mom always said wait 20 minutes before getting in the pool after eating. but is that really true? dr. marc siegel separates fact from fiction when it comes to summertime health. ♪ ♪ hello! i'm a kid. and us kids have an important message for our grown ups. three grams daily of beta-glucan... a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. and where can you find beta-glucan? in oats. and, they're yummy! i'm going back to being a kid now. thank you! really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited

. >> visited the emergency shelter at lackland air force base in my district in san antonio.was that like? >> it's a military base so you have, you know, a few dozen kids per room and in single beds, but it was nothing like the pictures we saw coming out of the processing centers along the border which were just horrendous. >> the pictures that you describe are very dramatic. there are a lot of people, republicans and democrats, suggesting the president should go see those for himself when he heads to your state later today and tomorrow. do you think he should? >> this will not be his last opportunity to make it to the border. he feels that going down there would help his understanding of the situation, you know. this is something that the president is dealing with every day, that much of his administration is committed a lot of resources to finding out about, and so i think if he thinks it will help his understanding he should go down there. >> you had time to spend with some of these children who are here, some of the tens of thousand at this point of children from honduras

detention facilities in mcallen, texas, and i've seen the 1rks200 children being sheltered at lackland air force base in san antonio. most disturbing of all, i've heard the stories about the most god-awful journey anyone should ever have to experience. we're here today because we have a responsibility to stop this crisis. the president has failed to lead, so i firmly believe this chamber must act. doing nothing is not an option. since june when the speaker asked me to lead a working group to provide policy recommendations on what we can do to address the crisis, i've been to the texas-mexico border twice and led a co-dell to guatemala and honduras to see where the children are coming from and why. i'll be returning to the border tomorrow for a third time the members of the working group dove head first into this issue to understand this crisis and provide recommendations for short-term, immediate response. the policies we reck mened are not an attempt for immigration reform, they are serious solutions to address this crisis. i want to take a moment to recognize the -- recognize the hard work of

department of health and human services is allowing a managed tour of the shelter at the joint air force base in lackland. they are worried about their health and safety. president obama is expected to ask congress for $2 billion in aid. members of congress have been invited to tour other facilities in other states, not all of them in border states. in fact, the united states congressman was turned away from one of those sites in oklahoma. that has brmr. bradenstein aski what that does to help anything. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> i understand you were on a prescheduled visit to fort sill, oklahoma meeting the commander there when you decided to take a brief detour and visit this place where the immigrant children were being housed. tell me what happened from that point on. >> we just drove around the facility. it was just like a military barracks like any other military barracks, except this time there was a newly built chain link fence all around it. it was obscured with cloth all the way around the fence so you couldn't see in, nobody could see out. we drove around

he was only 72 miles from lackland affect where i've been at to see the young kids there. he was only 72 miles. air force do it in 15 minutes or less. >> it also makes no sense. they do -- the president does photo ops all the time. to say he is not doing it because it's a photo op doesn't make much sense to me. you take issue with the way governor perry has treated this situation and immigration more broadly? >> well, i mean, i'm sorry, did governor perry just say he wanted to send the national guard here? i mean, i've been here now for a few hours. for what? is the governor afraid of teddy bears? of these kids? what are we afraid of here? i just find it so tragic, really. the kind of leadership that is happening in texas with governor perry. right? you have a governor that keeps -- >> do you think more personnel are needed on to the border not just for border security, but to deal with this influx, jose? >> well, i mean, the thing is we're conflating -- governor perry has been conflating these two issues, right? governor perry with other republican leaders have been saying that the surge has happened be