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federal government to reject asm
seekers over Kovan concerns
and we want to send things over
to net Iran pour. She's live alg
the border fence in San Ysidro
with a closer look at the crisi.
She spent there for hours now,
watching as many families with
children wait on the other sidef
that fence. Netta. Yeah,
Devin and Eric.
So now we're starting to see a t
of the babies waking up here ths
morning in the arms of their mothers.
It is a very sad sight to see to
witness this. Young children,
3-4 months old, little toddlers as well.
And right now what you're seeing here,
a lot of people are looking
towards the top of this hill.
There's a Border Patrol truck we
saw that entered South of this
fence line and that's sent a lof
people running towards those ag.
Now they're in this line and wee
being told by humanitarian aid workers
that they've created this owns r
own system to try to speed up te
process of possibly going throuh
the Border Patrol questionings.
They are in line by order of
who's been here longest.
In groups of families with young children,
single men in other lines,
some people from certain
countries in lines as well.
So this again is a system they e
created on their own because they all want
to go through the asylum seeking process.
As quickly as they can,
they've traveled thousands of ms
from various countries to be right here
and they want to cross this fence line.
So here we are,
of course in San Ysidro watching
this unfold just feet from us.
We have County Supervisor Jim Desmond
joining us this morning as well.
And you're watching this along
with us and it is heartbreaking.
Give us your take on what you're seeing here.
And what can be done about this?
Well, I think you know that the desperation
on both sides of the border are answers.
And So what? What's the process?
What's going to happen?
We know we're hearing it on both
sides and and it's very sad to ,
you know, people in desperate,
in being as desperate as they
are here sleeping outside.
And with the many children,
there's a lot of kids there.
And unfortunately, you know,
desperate times, unfortunately.
Bring brings out some of the
worst of of the situations.
We we understand a lot of people
go to the unaccompanied minors,
unfortunately end up in sex
trafficking and things like tha,
fentanyl coming across the bord.
But it's good to see people are,
you know,
organizing themselves here and getting,
getting, you know,
as best they can to the
opportunity to seek asylum.
And then we understand that
once they're processed,
they're going to be dropped off
somewhere here in in San Diego County.
And I just got done speaking
with Border Patrol,
they estimate about 3500 people
in Tijuana area here at the
San Diego border which is many,
many more times than they've
ever seen before.
So they they have not gotten
very any additional resources,
but they are actually going to .
So we're we're anticipating
that people are going to get
dropped off in San Diego County.
And what we're going to our goal
is to try to move them as quicky
as possible to their sponsors
because if they get the asylum
status or or seeking status whee
they potentially get a court da,
they have to have a sponsor.
And so that the what we found ot
in the past is most of the spons
are not in San Diego County.
It's just we happen to be here
right at the border.
And so our goal,
main goal is to process them
through the county,
get them to their final
destinations as quickly as poss.
We understand the Border Patroll
be dropping them off at transit
centers throughout the county,
similars to what they did Chriss
that earlier this last year.
Now Supervisor Desmond,
we've tried to reach out to Cuss
and Border Protection as well
to get an idea of what's next.
What will happen tonight at
9:00 when Title 42 expires?
So your latest info from Border Patrol,
there's 3500 people South of this fence
in Tijuana area here at CS. And
then like you were mentioning,
what will happen to them next?
Will they be brought in these
trucks and buses into San Diego?
Well, that's my understanding t.
Well, they're going to be,
they're going to be processed,
you know, some of them are procd
and you know background checks,
medical checks and and
if they have a sponsor,
so there's certain criteria form
to even qualify for an asylum hearing.
And they may or may not get a
court date where we understand
those court dates are years awa.
But once they get processed and by the
Border Patrol and and that may take a lot,
a lot longer with this many people here,
then they can only hold them for so long.
And once our accommodations are filled
up here or our processing centers are
at maxed out in San Diego Count,
they're going to start droppingm
at the at the transit stations.
We're working with different entities,
nonprofits and and others to he.
Hopefully help people get to
their destinations.
The one in North County and Oceanside that
they were dropped off last Christmas.
It it's unfortunate it's a
Sprinter station up on Oceansid.
There's no bathrooms.
There's not a convenience store within
walking distance or gas station.
So we're working with with our
partners to try to get people to their
destinations get them through San Diego
County as quickly as possible so they.
Hopefully they can get their
hearing someday and and go
through this silent process.
Now
obviously for these people we're looking
at them it it's heartbreaking to see this.
You know San Diego has a very
generous spirit. They want to h.
There are volunteers that
we've seen since 5:00.
O'clock this morning out here trying to help.
What do you. I think can we can,
I mean is there anything that aa
county can San Diego handle thi?
Are our shelters equipped to help them?
Are our services available for ?
This not for this number and
not for this many people.
This is, which is why we want to
process them through the county.
I think what people can do is, you know,
start going after Washington ant
a process that's that is humane.
This is not humane.
You know, to have to have the pe
and children and sleeping out in
the dirt and just not knowing,
having questions.
If we had a process,
people could understand and work
through that and we could do
it legally and get people into
our country that that qualify.
I think that's what both sides really want.
And I think that's what we got
to start pressing the federal
government to do and not have on
borders and chaos like this that
that we're witnessing here toda.
And at 9:00 o'clock everybody's
going to is wondering what's
going to happen and I think.
We all were looking desperately for answers,
but we're going to do the best e
can in San Diego County to get people
processed and get them through o
their sponsors throughout the country.
We appreciate your
time this morning and your
perspective on all of this.
I know you've been in touch
with the federal government.
We've been waiting to hear as w.
So thank you for sharing that with us.
And you know,
as far as what we're seeing her,
of course, a lot of people waitg
for those same answers that our
county leaders are also waiting.
9:00 PM is when Title 42 ends.
And that's a big question.
What happens?
What will this look like at 9:0?
For now,
we can tell you we the activity
we've seen this morning as peope
are waking up starting to see me
action from Border Patrol agent.
So that's what we've seen come
through a couple trucks and van.
And so a lot of these people hog
that they get to board at those trucks
and vans so that they can be processed
as supervisor Desmond just said,
he just spoke with Border Patrol
and the idea is that these peope
will get processed eventually.
And then eventually be sent
to possibly sponsor families.
So that's what we're hearing from him.
We're going to continue to stay here at
the border to try to get more information,
speak with migrants,
speak with a lot of these
humanitarian aid workers as wel.
We'll be bringing that to you,
live here from San Ysidro for n.
We're going to send it back to .