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Remember, there is no way of proving that. that is just the trump administration saying that. the total number of children seized from parents is being repeatedly and wrongly reported as 2,300. and that'srong, but people are saying it because people are forgetting to mention that the total number was 2,342 as of june 9th. over two weeks ago. and so the border patrol was arresting dozens and dozens of kids a day at that time, sometimes as many as 100 a day. and so the real total by the time the president changed his mind about this was about 3,000. new york governor andrew cuomo has visited fac...

You and your family during the mid to late 194s. h . >> these were not japanese internment camps. these were japanese-american prison camps. >> of course. >> right. so it's -- stays with me today. i'm 74 years old. it's been a life-long process dealing with the trauma of being incarcerated with my mother and father in the prison camp. >> forgive me for misspeaking there. i want to just ask you about the magnitude of what we are seeing today, the circumstances are in some ways different but you look at the number of children under the care of the department of health & human services. 2,342 who...

What happens to them this morning? when do they get reunited with their parents? there is no answer from the administration this morning. in fact, when i went to bed last night, the answer was nothing. the administration and government would do anything to reunite these kids. later, they tried to backtrack it and say we want to and that is our intention to get it done. do they have a plan? we are trying to figure out that this morning and there is no coherent explanation. that is emblematic of the administration. you get the sense the administration did not go into the strategy clearly. >> "no...

Has a bar code and they scan it tell us. maybe it won't be back for a few days but they know where our bags are. costco and all the stores know where the cans of food and crates of stores are. so there's no excuse in 2018 for the fact that these kids can't be accounted for. that's the problem here. no matter what the political solution or the legislative solution becomes, the story hangs even though there was a policy change with an executive order and not challenged by the courts. there's 2,342 children that can be accounted for or a number of them cannot be accounted for is really a tragedy....

So what happens now to the 2,342 children who we know have been scattered around the country in secret detention centers after being separated from their parents? some of them might never see their parents again according to our next guest. joining us now is john sandwig. john, 2,342 is the number as of june 9th. it's been going up by dozens a day, so it's a few hundred or maybe several hundred more, close to 3,000 by now. with your expertise, what happens to them? >> well, the children are obviously taken away from their parents. so they're going to be placed in foster care facilities or with...