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Working with families. to date we've interviewed 381 parents and we have no knowledge that any single one of those parents has been reunited with their children. nor have we been given any information about the process for reunification. >> an assistant federal public defender in el paso, texas, joins us now. thank you for being with us. you wrote an op-ed recently. in it, you describe the conversations you are having with your clients with these undocumented workers that are coming over the border that those client meetings are crushing is how you described them. how so? >> they're being char...

One is the texas civil rights project. their president joins me now. thank you for being here, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we are hearing hhs does not have a publicly accessible data base when thinking of pairing children back to their parents. the government says 500 van paired back. do you know how those 500 got to their parents? >> no. no, we have no information about that. as you mentioned, for the past six weeks, our lawyers have been on the front lines in south texas working with families. to date, we have interviewed 381 parents and we have no knowledge that any single one of tho...

Case, that the only responsibility is on the detained parent to track their kid down within the system? >> reporter: yes, very much so. one of the thing that we know for sure, this is a very difficult process. you heard it for yourself. since may 24th, we have been interviewing parents who have been separated from their children here at the mcallen courthouse. we have spoken to 381 of them. we cannot confirm any of our clients have been reunited with their children. that's the magnitude of the crisis we're facing. every day that we pass is another day that our clients and people reinterviewed ...

Interviewed 381 families who have been separated from their children and each one of these people are going to have to go through their own cases, their own process. that could take many months just this morning we saw a family finally be reunited after one month and that took litigation to make it through. so you know this going to be a long and arduous process and there's so many holes of confusion. >> you've been going there every day for the last month-plus, how does it look differently now? since the executive order was signed, are there noticeable changes, things are different from the w...

>> 381. over 400 children. >> and so walk us through a little bit of how that works. we just detailed what sounds like the hurdles. but what are you doing to try to connect those families? a lot of people around the country have been looking for ways to get involved or wondering how this works. >> yeah. so we have been interviewing families, parents since may 24th at the federal courthouse here in mcallen who have been separated from their children. some days it would be 10 or 15. other days it would be 25. this past tuesday it was 34. yesterday it was 17 that were brought into the courtroom i...