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Democrats want anarchy, they really do. >> more tough talk from president trump on immigration and the border, but no mention of the thousands of children being held in detention centers. the department of health and human services says there are nearly 3,000 children who were taken from their parents, about 100 of those children are under the age of 5. however, officials refuse to offer an exact figure. this was the first update since last week when we were told there were 2,047 kids being held. the federal government is now struggling to reunite the children with their parents. "the new york...

Now, he did not provide an exact figure today. but just last tuesday, he told the senate finance committee that the number was 2047 kids, precisely. of the nearly those are the kids that a federal judge in california ordered the government to bring back to their parents within 14 days of the order's release. and the order was filed last tuesday. the secretary confirmed his department plans to comply with that deaddeadline. that plan includes dna testing to speed up the reunification process and adding 230 workers to oversee the testing and assist parents in filling out something called a fam...

Couple of days, but it struck me that when the administration came out yesterday with the reunification number and talked about that they're now under 3,000, that was one of those, wait, what? we never -- i never knew it was over 3,000. have they explained why were they not -- i would say they haven't been forthcoming. we don't know that they were misleading but they weren't forthcoming about the number. >> chuck, as somebody who has been following the story for weeks, it was a huge jump. the last number they had given us was 2,047 and all of a sudden it jumped to under 3,000. you know, that's...

Saying is under 3,000 parents and children, which from an advocate's perspective is extremely invasive and completely unnecessary, especially given the fact that a lot of the children who are over 5 years old are verbal. they can speak. they have identify who is their parent, and that can be confirmed by the parent. there's no need to go the extra mile and start dna testing over 2,000. >> it appears that the hhs is clearly having trouble carrying out this executive order. the numbers seem to have gone up. it was 2,047 last week. now it's around 3,000. sounds like they're not certain of the num...

Unaccompanied without a parent. here's where our important number comes in. they say they're currently holding under 3,000 children in total that have been separated from their families. that was an approximate figure. they would not put an actual number. he said it was under 3,000. that includes 100 children under the age of 5. so little babies here that are being held. also very significant, not only that they wouldn't put an exact number on that, they also would not tell us exactly how many kids had been reunified with their parents since that executive order was signed. the last figure we ...