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Created by the trump administration? do i have that right? >> absolutely. they're cleaning up their own mess. and in the middle 2,400 children are caught. >> how many children does your organization and families overall, how many families is your organization working with? >> 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 inter...

Was heard of children crying and asking for their parents. and they said that was enough to sort of bring their plans to a halt for now. the goal for many of them is still to try to make to the united states. but when they heard about the child separation, they said it very much does deter them, but again, just for now. >> as families heading for the border struggle to figure out their next steps, the families detained are struggling to find their children. with me now, from the texas civil rights project who is seeing firsthand what the parents are going through. and welcome, you are on cnn h...

And again ththat is 381. >> and what do you find most frustrating? >> the most frustrating part is just the lack of information coming from all sides of the federal government. you know, we've been going every day to the federal courthouse to interview people who have been separated from their families and connect them with attorneys. and some days we get 30 to 40, some days we get 15. the last two days because of the executive order, today we saw no parents at the courthouse, but that didn't mean that the prosecutions are over. so we're not sure whether they will continue next week and what w...

Phone calls to identify and at least reach out to the kid. i spoke with another man just within the hour. and he says his main concern is the anxiety and insecurity his daughter must be feeling since they've been separated since june 4th. >> absolutely. ed lavandera, such important reporting. now, director of the texas civil rights project, his group is representing 381 undocumented immigrants who have been acce separated from their children. thank you for being here. i want to get your reaction that customs and border prek says all the children in its custody will be reunion with their parent...

Continue as the next days come up. and we don't understand what that process would even look like for reunification if at all. and that a is the most frustrating part, having to talk to people and tell them about our unclarity and we are a group of attorneys,ed a f ed advocate we're supposed to know how it is supposed to work. and unfortunately, we're in the dark and that means that our clients and the people that we are talking to are even more distraught because we have not much information to give them. >> here is hoping that number 381 changes and these parents and dkids are unified. thank...