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Doesnt work. >> reporter: and so ernest scherer iii was found guilty. two counts of first-degree murder, two consecutive life sentences, no parole. his sister katherine, daughter of the victims, spoke publicly for the first time outside the courtroom. >> hard to have to talk about my parents and the loss. theyre no longer with me at all. it does tear me up. >> do you feel justice was served? >> i dont know. its hard. its hard to admit that anybody could do something like that. >> reporter: and a...

Separate from them, and we never imagined it would be so long. >> there are things that you can do specifically to help out with the children -- >> from inside her south texas law office, jodey good win is trying to find 22 children. she reps 25 undocumented immigrants who have all been separated from their children about two weeks. >> most of them dont know where their kids are at this point? >> none of them know whowhere their kids are. i dont know where their kids are. >> goodwin says shes tr...

We reunite those over 2300 children to their parents. >> i hear what youre saying, but i guess im asking for specifics. if you think you have the answer how to reunite the families, what is the answer? >> well, we know what doesnt work. what doesnt work is forced family internment, which is exactly what the trump administration, as well as the paul ryan compromise bill does. it would create a scenario where all the family is detained together indefinitely, but if you want solutions, there was a ...

Doesnt work. he was the secretary of housing and urban development in the clinton administration. "time" magazine has obtained a secret united states navy memo which says, quote, the u.s. navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in california, alabama, and arizona. the navy memo outlines plans to build temporary and austere tent cities to house 25,000 migrants at abandoned air fields just outside the florida panhandle, n...

>> its impossible legally to reunite the child and the parent. by law, they cannot put the child in a detention facility and what the administration is still doing is keeping the parents in a detention facility. so you cannot unite them with a parngt. when they talk about reunification, theyre talking about trying to find another family member in this country, an aunt, uncle or something, and see if that relative will take in the child. >> andrew cuomo knows how the federal bureaucracy works and...

Aggressive behavior. some of the complaints and allegations stem from a long running lawsuit challenging the legality of the u.s. locking up or detaining any underage undocumented minors. >> the care they receive is shocking. what we have witnessed shocked my conscious and i have to repeatedly remind myself that this is actually happening in our country. >> reporter: jake, virginias governor weighed in on this. he is ordering commonwealth officials to investigate these claims and we should point...

Already set in motion. >> the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that have fueled the child smuggling industry. the democrats are causing tremendous damage and destruction and lives by not doing something about this. >> also said he doesnt want to hire more immigration judges that will expedite the process. thats a part of the bill that ted cruz put forward, hiring more immigration judges so the cases expedited. those who deserve to be granted asylum are ...

>> neil: isnt it a consideration that will never go home? >> no. i think they would like to go home awhile and bring their families. they bring their families in large because because they know they can never come home. as long as the work is there -- >> neil: you dont think theyll crash the party and stay here? >> no. >> neil: like these ones that are supposed to set up court dates and never -- >> we have tried a lot of other solutions, which is basically throwing wave after wave of bureaucracy...

Accused by the white house of being responsible for this family separation thing. theyre pointing to the law. the law doesnt state that you have to separate the two in years passed until this zero tolerance policy was pushed and enforced. the families were treated civilly, not criminally. so you wouldnt have the need to separate them. so its a zero tolerance policy that has separated this. this is a decision made by the white house. >> that is true. to blame it all on democrats is a real stretch...

Take these children hostage to negotiate another inhumane things. >> i certainly hope humanity will bring us together. chris, can you bring this to you why the trump administration thinks this is a good idea. from a moral spperspective it doesnt work and financial perspective. when people say tell plays to trumps base, how? if i lost my job and i felt hopeless detaining and separating mothers and children on the texas mexican border is not going to give me a better job or dratrain me for a brigh...