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Have a legal asylum claim. that's what's causing all this chaos, confusion. they should go back to the process before where we let the people file legal asylum claim, figure out if they can claim asi asyl asylum, if they can't, send them and their kids back as a unit instead of separating them right now. >> we're hearing from the department of homeland security, overnight you probably saw the same memo, sir, that is that the customs and border protection agency saying that they have reunited 522 children so far. 2,053. again, the latest numbers overnight. still being held by hhs. are we seeing...

Government to get her 7-year-old son. she told us, as a mother, you must fight to get your child back. you think if they anticipated it, do you think it would be that complicated? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: jody goodwin represents 100 migrant parents. >> they didn't think this through in which way to match up which parents. >> liz, i want to start with you because the department of homeland security doesn't answer the questions of the families and advocates like the ones that spoke to gabe gutierrez there. they are asking the government to provide. what is your sense of how the administra...

Particular. i want to cite the numbers we got from the department of homeland security again here. 522 children have been renew itted. 2,053 are still being held by hhs. my colleague, jacob soboroff is getting some indication that some of those 2,053, their parents might no longer be in the country. they may have been deported rather quickly after the apprehension of them. does that document get you any closer to finding out what you want and need to know? >> no, it does not. one of the great insults to the american people is the fact that their elected officials can't get access to the inform...

Welcome back. let's get straight back to the board border. watching, of course, locations where we've seen detention centers, possibly reunifications happening. gabe gutierrez, the numbers you know so well, 522 children according to the custom and border protection agency have been reunited. what are you seeing there at that location? >> reporter: hi there, richard, as you mentioned, custom and border protection says it reunited more than 500. still, when it comes to hhs, more than 2,000 children still separated. this is a large detention center here run by dhs, port isabelle detention center ...

Delmore and josh, an msnbc contributor. we have been looking at the numbers, 2,053 children are in custody, 522 have been reunited with their parents. 83% of children in custody have arrived without a parent. the word over the course of the week here has been chaos. another one has been confusion, especially when it comes into policy for reunification. how much does this give you any e assurance that this government, this department knows what it's doing here? >> none of it. i mean, you know, we will see over the coming weeks as these parents do or do not get reunited with their children, we k...