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We can do better. you dont have to let in more people to treat those who apply with humanity and to have a system that has rules that correspond to the resources needed. judges, case workers, accommodations. if you build the wall but you dont build out the other areas, youre not going to be fixing, not really. this little girl is gone, and there is no fixing that. and you can blame it away if you want, but thats not addressing the true need. we can do things to make sure it doesnt happen this w...

Judges, case workers, accommodations. if you build the wall but you dont build out the other areas, youre not going to be fixing, not really. this little girl is gone, and there is no fixing that. and you can blame it away if you want, but thats not addressing the true need. we can do things to make sure it doesnt happen this way again, and the answer isnt demonizing desperation, demonizing the cbp. theyre not stormtroopers. we know the facts of the situation. and it is outrageous, but theres no...

They were calling the detention centers to try to locate parents. >> wait a second. the case workers, this is bethany christian services in michigan. >> right. >> they have some tender age children under 5. >> i saw maybe a dozen or so -- >> kids under 5. >> yes. >> so what youre telling me is these case workers are affirmatively just cold-calling detention centers attempting to locate parents. its not some central hing coming from hhs where theyre making the match. >> no. and i will say, this t...

Still will not say exactly how many children are in custody they took from their parents. and that does not bode well for the july 26th deadline to reunite those kids up to 3,000 of them. congressman dan kildee, a democrat of michigan, visited a facility where some children are held last week. the governor had this court order that said kids under 5 theres about 100 of them you have to reunite them in two weeks and then you have another two weeks to do the full 30-3,000. theyre going to miss the...

Its use for housing these -- or not housing but serving these kids first came to light, you said it was a surprise to new york officials, that the federal government did this without ever notifying anyone in new york. >> yep. we heard about it the same way the media heard about it. and i was over there wednesday at that very same center. and ive got to tell you, it was just shocking. i went around the corner and theres 30 or 40 young kids in a classroom. turns out the vast majority of them were ...

And i asked the case workers there, how do you know how to find the family members? and they said some of these kids come in so young, one 9-months old that went into that center, some literally cant say their parents name and the only way they can find the parents in some cases is they have a note in their pocket with their parents name and phone number. but they said some kids dont have that note, some kids lost that note, some kids are too young, dont even know their parents name. and theres ...

And a sink on either side. but, fred, this does look different and the people here said that they are focused every single day on reunification. i felt like it was pretty simplified the way it was presented to us. they made it seem like it was no big deal, tracking down these parents and finding them like, yeah, we do it every day. >> how do they do that? are there photographs? >> they wouldnt tell us. exactly. i can tell you, they do have case workers. >> most of them were actively on the phone...

About 25 days in this particular facility. that is less than the average hhs center. thats about 57 days. there are -- of those 1200 kids, according to their director, just under 70 are actually kids who have been separated from their parents because of the zero tolerance policy under the trump administration. now, we had no way to vet those numbers, john, but thats what we were told. they have a really regimented schedule. they wake up at 6:00 a.m. they have six hours of school. they do counsel...

>> our goal with every immigrant child who comes here is to reunite them with family in america. we are parents until they are reunited with someone in the family. >> reporter: in recent days, some advocates for immigrant children and some political leaders have said its going to be extremely difficult to reunite separated children with their families. some have said the kids will never be reunited. officials say they have a 99 pr% success rate in reuniting immigrant children with a family membe...

Reunification process starts with them or later but their kids are gone. >> when you say their kids are go, lets talk about the reunification process. so president trump says he wants to end zero tolerance. we have over 2,000 kids separated from their parents. what is the procedure that happens now to reunite them? >> so now they go through -- if theyre in our custody -- >> whats oor? >> office of refugee and resettlement. and theyre the ones that take care of the kids. and they have case worker...