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Guatemala. i spoke to her through a glass window using a prison-like phones. she has been told reunification is imminent. she has been like that for eight years. every day, she asks, where is my child? she knows today is the deadline. the des priration is growing for her and 40 other mothers in there with her in that state of limbo. and that same sentiment was echoed by another father, abraham, who was released from here but told me about that anguish days before reunification happened for him. ...

Parents getting cell phones and toilet toiletries. from there they quickly go to mcallen terminal and travel wherever the final destination is in the united states. it was there i was able to catch up with abraham, a recently reunified father with his 6-year-old little girl heidi. he tells me he was thankful to god to have her in his arms but he couldnt help but think of those final days leading up to the reunification and that anguish he lived inside this facility. this is how he described it. ...

Care system. it is really our government inflicting child abuse. the idea that you would separate parents with children, and im convinced that of the 2,000 children, i think few will be reunited. when a parent is departed, how are they posed to find their child again. one mother knew where her child was, he said if you want your child back, you need to come up with 1$1,500. i believe that a lot of these children will wind unin the foster care system which is already overburdened because of the o...

You know, she doesnt know -- they cant prove that shes the parent of this child. and it terrifies me, and it terrifies these women, ill tell you, when i talked to the women in the federal prison, they said to me, am i going to get my child back? through tears, weeping, sobbing, i havent seen my child in over a month. can i get my child back? and you know, weve been saying yes, but i have deep fear that the administration has no plans and there are some documents released that show that the admin...

Was in a better place and she wouldnt bring her child back, even if she could. that would be selfish. those remarks, while they may seem odd out of context, very much fit within her religious beliefs. >> you are a former federal prosecutor, a former federal prosecutors, i should say. would you try this case? >> not with the evidence weve seen thus far. i think the investigation should be continued as it is, but with what we know thus far, no. >> im looking at mark and mel. i know you said earlie...

Thats what she believes in her faith, thats what she is supposed to do. also her comments that her child was in a better place and she wouldnt bring her child back, even if she could. that would be selfish. those remarks, while they may seem odd out of context, very much fit within her religious beliefs. >> you are a former federal prosecutor, a former federal prosecutors, i should say. would you try this case? >> not with the evidence weve seen thus far. i think the investigation should be cont...

Say theyve done everything that they capital kope, perhaps not getting the help that they need. my guess, danny, is they cant just drop a child off. >> you got it, ashleigh. the law in ohio does allow for the commitment of whats called an unruly child to the custody of the state. the problem here is the parents just didnt follow the proper procedure. you cant return a kid like hes a pair of khakis at the gap. you have to go to the agency, they will set up an intake and have a court hearing to de...

Cant you get veronica and return her to the couple that are her legal parents and this is what he said. >> why cant you go and get veronica and bring her back to the adopted parent sns. >> the sheriffs office can only enforce state at the constitust orders of the court. so we cannot pick up a child and just give them to those people on south carolinas say so. they have to file a certain papers and do -- its an adoption. file the right paperwork here to get their child back, or if that is their c...

Child back, she sent him out with a note that said he was a psychotic violent kid. that was a horrendous act of child abuse in and of itself, but the courts ordered her to pay $150,000 in damages and support him until hes 18 years old. so there has been a remedy for that child abuse. vladimir putin needs to acknowledge that because youre only hurting the kids. dont play politics with kids lives. >> explain the quid pro quo in the politics involved? >> yes, with vladimir putin, you never know wha...

shall be valid or recognized in this state." cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? >> it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marr...