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>> our correspondent rosa flores is joining us now from mcallen, texas. rose, i understand you had a chance to speak with the girls mother. whats she saying about the efforts to reconnect her with her daughter? >> reporter: you know, cindy madrid said they told her to be patient, that there was a process for her to be reunited with her daughter, but there were no details about that process. she made it to the border on may 25th. she said that pro publica audio was recorded on the day she arrived...

Children. plus as the federal government scrambles to react to the presidents executive order, families are left to wonder how long the reunification process will take. prepare for your demise, mr. billingsley! do your worst, doctor.

Its the port isabel detention center. this center will the one that will be used to reunify families. its unclear how that reunification process will work, but as you can see, im standing pretty far from the facility and thats just the gate. were not allowed to get any closer, were not even allowed to be on the road you see behind me to ask more questions or even to figure out if we could talk to some of these women that are in this facility. now, this is a massive facility. wolf, i can tell you...

Parents. the other 2,000 are between the ages of 6 and 12. and there is still no clear plan from the government on how to reunite these families. cnn nick valencia joins us from the portiza dell detention center in texas, and once the government figures that out, that might be the place families are reunited. >> reporter: that is right. and it could be a painstakingly slow process. two immigration attorneys that just left the facility, are told by i.c.e. officials inside it could be up to a mont...

Deported and i.c.e. is saying it is up to the parent to decide if they want to -- especially those parents in the process of deportation, to be sent back with children or if the children stay behind in the care of a family member, perhaps. that certainly would place a parent in a very difficult position here, wolf. these parents having to do decide do they fight deportation prolonging the separation or repatriated with their child south of the border. >> thank you very much. lets get more on a...

As mr. trump and his aides clearly promised. meanwhile the president is keeping tabs on his favorite skap scapegoat, the democrats, saying, republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congressmen d congressmen/women in november. demes are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solve this decades-old problem. we can pass great legislation after the red wave. jim, what do you think about this zero tolerance policy? >> this ze...

The clearest voice in that audio is that of a little girl who had been asking for her aunt. cnn was able to track down her mother, who was obviously grief stricken. she says shes been given a phone number by immigration officials which she calls repeatedly but it just rings and rings and rings. she spoke one-on-one to cnns rosa flores. there is still a lot of confusion surrounding this reunification process. the government says 500 of the

>> there is still a lot of confusion surrounding the reunification process. 2,300 children still in limbo. at least one family was able to reunite. a guatemalan mother who filed a lawsuit. they reached an agreement minutes before the hearing was to get under way. it happened early friday morning in the baltimore airport. her 7-year-old son finally able to embrace his mother. an agreement was raoefpdz. mid-may is the last time she had seen her son. we are still trying to get clarification as the ...

Children were being held and the president was supportive of her decision. she visited three different classrooms and spoke with the childr who a being held there. asked a lot of questions of the workers who are staffing the facility, including how she could help the reunification process, children and their families. this coming as the white house is still not being clear on how exactly they plan to reunite the roughly 2,300 children who have already been separated from their families at the bo...

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