From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

The rush of illegal immigrants at the border is at a historical high, and every day it's getting worse.

Migrant teenagers and children are the focus of the crisis right now, and according to the

Department of Homeland Security, there are over 17,000 minors in custody or at facilities.

That's well over the 11,000 recorded in spring 2019.

And it's been estimated that we can expect another 18 to 22,000 more next month alone.

Photos of children sleeping shoulder to shoulder on the floor with aluminum blankets in clear pod-like cages were recently released.

Other footage showed them banging their hands on plexiglass windows and doors.

In the first press conference of Joe Biden's presidency, questions about the border crisis dominated the conversation. And after weeks of being denied access inside border facilities,

the media has started asking harder questions.

The Customs and Border Protection Facility in Donna, Texas, I was there, is at 1556% capacity right now with mostly unaccompanied minors.

There are kids that are sleeping on floors.

They are packed into these pods.

What is your reaction to these images that have come out from that particular facility?

Is what's happening inside acceptable to you?

That's a serious question, right?

It's acceptable to me. Come on.

That's why we're going to be moving a thousand of those kids out quickly.

Another question that's been popular, but isn't so hard to answer, is if the Biden administration

created this crisis by making changes

to Trump's policy, or would this have happened anyway?

I keep hearing this notion that they inherited a dismantled immigration system, which

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