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Could not or would not answer that question. >> the president's executive order has bought some time for congress, but the clock is ticking and congress needs to act to fix this process because we're running out of time on what we have the ability to do, particularly with the district court that weighed in just last week. >> the trump administration never released the total number of children seized from the beginning of the president's zero tolerance policy until the day he changed that ppolicy. on june 26th, 2,047 kids in custody. now the health and services department refuses to update that...

Another country. the laws in america are now too harsh and people here don't have a heart. we don't know how many other families are waiting for the moments like we see here. the last number we got from hhs was last tuesday saying 2,047 children were in their car. but as many immigrant attorneys have told me, they don't see a clear process. they don't see how the government can meet the deadline they have set to reunify these families. >> still so many questions. most important one as you pointed out here, how will the 2,047 children be reunited. joining me now i will yan na johnson and matt a...

Quick reunification of the parents and childrened separated from each oh when they crossed the border. the government has a 30 day deadline to reunite them. unless the child is age five and under, then they had a 14 day deadline. so stotomorrow we're halfway through that. if the process is, if they are we have in there, but we don't have any updated numbers. how many children are in the custody of hhs separated under the policy since tuesday. almost a week. at that point it was 2047.

Rooted in flashy rhetoric. there have been documented cases from the dhs inspector general that is noted widespread abuse in ice. ice has repeatedly bucked administration policy, have ignored directives from secretary mattis on down the line. what democrats are saying, some of us, is that there are deep-seeded issues with ice. i think we can get rid of it and start over with a different organization. this doesn't play into the hands of donald trump. the president would like us to think he is winning this argument. i beg to differ. >> on the side of republicans, there are concerns still about 2...

For this. >> reporter: in legal documents filed late friday, the justice department indicated it would reunite families by detaining them together until their asylum claims are settled. >> that's not a good substitute for the reunification of these families. >> reporter: the senator hand delivered letters from children in his home state to immigrant children detained at a southwest key facility in brownsville, texas. >> families should be together. >> reporter: the trump administration has stopped reporting the number of families reunited. the administration last week reported 2,047 children w...