reunions with their loved ones outside an ice detention center in louisiana. olena seeing her fiance, max, for the first time since fleeing ukraine and crossing the southern border. >> nobody was expecting them to be in an jail for 18 days. >> reporter: now max lives here. she came to apply for asylum and was taken into custody by border patrol. >> the fakt that we couldn't communicate, they couldn't hear anything from us. that was the hardest thing. >> reporter: she said during her time inside this ice facility, about 100 russian and ukrainian women came through and she says many are still inside. ukrainian women, like victoria, who's now reunited with her husband. her sister in law says she was traumatized after escaping war and thenbying treated like a prisoner. were you hungry? >> always. >> reporter: do they feel welcomed into the united states?