out of those 100,000 individuals last month, included 9000 unaccompanied children and 19,000 migrants coming across as families, that is some combination of mother and father and minor children, based on the sheer numbers. This is a problem, it is overwhelming the capacity, physical capacity to house and tend to kick take care of these children, and to make sure that these individuals are processed according to the Law Order patrol and health and human services and our immigration courts do not have the capacity to manage an influx is large. And when you add the operational challenges and risks associated with a COVID 19 pandemic, it becomes even more difficult to house and care for these migrants, especially the children. The facilities like Carrizo springs are currently, excuse me were previously at a 40% capacity to allow for social distancing something we've heard a lot about the last year, but the number of unaccompanied children has climbed so high that the Biden ministration is now allowing those facilities to operate at 100% capacity, despite the obvious risk of spreading COVID-19 because of a failure, or inability to socially distance. At one point last week, there were more than 3700 children in the custody of the Border Patrol. By comparison, there were about 2600 children in custody at the peak of the 2019 crisis. So the numbers are significantly higher reports over the weekend show that the number is increased of more than 4200 With nearly 3000 held beyond the 72 hour legal limit imposed by a court settlement. While these migrant children are without a doubt the biggest victims of this crisis, there are cascading consequences in Brownsville alone, more than 200 migrants were released from the border patrol's custody, having tested positive for COVID 19 200 positive for COVID-19 ushered into the, into the, into the country. So despite the obvious health risks, many of these individuals continued their travels to their ultimate destinations, both within and outside the state of Texas. Some traveled we know as far north as Maryland, North Carolina and New Jersey. And this rapid pace catch and release. Practice places a serious strain on the resources of our border communities. During the deadly winter storm last month, the mayor of Del Rio pleaded for the administration to stop releasing migrants into the city and surrounding area. The city's capacities were already stretched thin and Mayor Bruno Lozano said, we will be forced to make a decision to leave them without resources under these dire circumstances. The president's chief of staff was asked recently about the border crisis in a recent interview, he said, We inherited a real mess. Well, that's not the way I see it. The policies, the administration inherited deterred the human smugglers the coyotes and cartels from even attempting to smuggle children into the United States, particularly during the COVID 19 pandemic. They required under the migrant protection program for migrants to remain in Mexico while their asylum claims for being processed course by the administration, as in sort of a reflexive manner reversed all of the previous administration's policies without any plan to put in its place, and without regard to the consequences.