Officials Say They Are Caught Illegally Crossing Texas Border; Outrage In Arizona Over Detention Center For Undocumented Children
WHITFIELD: All right, bottom of the hour now. Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. And here are some of the top stories crossing the CNN news desk right now. Three men escaped from a Canadian detention center by helicopter. Police say the chopper touched down in the courtyard of the facility last night in Quebec city and then took off with the inmates. A massive manhunt is now under way. Investigator say two men had been arrested in a drug bust. It's not clear what the third man was in for. To Paris now. Rafael Nadal lost the first set at today's French open men's final but he rebounded taking the next three sets to defeat Yakovich and it was Nadal's fifth straight French open victory, ninth overall. And he now owns 14 major titles. Roger Federer has the most major wins among men's players, 17. And today marks three months to the day since Malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished after weeks of grueling searches in the Indian Ocean. There's no sign of the Boeing 777 jetliner. Families of the more than 200 souls on board are trying to raise $5 million to fund an investigation established a whistleblower reward. An influx of undocumented children since memorial day weekend has caught the eye of the Arizona governor, not because they are in the U.S. illegally but because of where the U.S. has been sending them. Here is CNN's Rosa Flores.</s>ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What behind these walls in Nogales, Arizona has many angry and here is why. On the other side of the chain-linked fences are children, hundreds of them, seemingly laying on the floor covered in thermal blankets. This is where immigration officials are moving more than 1,000 undocumented children to this makeshift detention center this weekend, just inside the Arizona/Mexico border. Arizona's governor is highly critical of the move releasing a statement on Friday saying in part, quote, "I am disturbed and outraged that President Obama's administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy. Not only does the federal government have no plan to stop this disgraceful policy, it also has no plans to deal with the endless waves of illegal aliens once they are released here. If the Obama administration put half the effort into securing our border as it has invested to institute this operation, our state and nation would not be facing this situation." This latest operation by federal immigration officials comes on the heels of an influx of women and children over the Memorial day weekend, caught illegally trying to cross into Texas. Hundreds were flown to Tucson then bussed to Phoenix and left at a bus station to find their way.</s>CYNDI WHITMORE, PHOENIX RESTORATION PROJECT: Beginning on Tuesday, we started seeing families dropped off, including, you know, children most under the age of five, some as young as three to six months old.</s>LEAH SARAT, PHOENIX RESTORATION PROJECT: They are now being released on their own recognizance which means giving authorization to travel and be unite with family members</s>FLORES: But it's this weekend's transport of undocumented children, Tuno Gales (ph), that has called the entire operation into question. A spokesman for homeland security tells CNN the number of undocumented children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border by themselves had increased substantially calling a crisis situation. Official say at least 60,000 children will try to cross into the United States this year alone.</s>FLORES: Now, it's important to know that immigration attorneys will tell you that the fact that these children are coming to the United States without their parents has nothing to do with U.S. immigration policy. In the other hand, they do say that it has everything to do with violence in Central America. Now, here's some important numbers to share with you and this is from the women's refugee commission because they have been studying these influx of children that are coming to the U.S. without their parents. Two years ago that number was at 13,000. Last year it was at 24,000 and this year it's expected to be 60,000 -- Fred.</s>WHITFIELD: Rosa, thanks. You know, at what ages? Do we know the ages of these kids? As young as what?</s>FLORES: You know, as young as very little because what they are also finding out is that a lot of women are coming with those children as well. Now, Here's one of the really frightening stories, is that they -- these immigration attorneys keep on hearing the same stories from these children. Some of them are very young. And what they describe is this violence in Central America. They will describe their mother, grandmother, sister being raped and then beaten. And so, they start walking, they start moving towards the United States. And here's another tidbit. So these immigration attorneys, because they've been hearing this over and over again, once they come to the United States, these detention centers have been coined the word</s>WHITFIELD: That's startling. All right, thank you so much, Rosa Flores.</s>FLORES: You're welcome.</s>WHITFIELD: Shelly Sterling, yes, we are now saying the name again, might still have a role with the Clippers if the $2 billion sale of the team does actually go through. What would she be doing?