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Is about. whether or not the department of justice can be compelled to present a plan that's able and finally resolve the matter of these families. one of the recent conflicts in court that the aclu should take the role. the judge was not digging that. no, you created this, you need to fix this. it is by design in a sense. the question is whether or not the design was simply to separate the family and the government ever contemplated. >> tlas plhere is a plan now. >> they said this was supposed to be deterrent. they were not shy, they said they hope this would keep people coming from the count...

Her daughter headed back to the united states, landed in texas and the case continues. again, the attorney general, he threatened to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt of court for this behavior by the government. >> and the aclu is challenging this. they don't think that this is a valid ruling or a decision by jeff sessions. the court is threatening to hold sessions in contempt. let's remind everybody the latest numbers of families who are still separated at the border. 2,551. that's the number that were originally separated. 559 are still separated. 365 parents have a...

And yesterday the government revealed that 559 children are still separated from their parents. 365 of them have parents who have already been deported. joining me now is raul reyes, an attorney and nbcnews.com contributor. raul, thank you very much. this was a remarkable moment. >> right. >> the mother and the daughter were, as he said, spirited away in the night, put on a plane and were sent to guatemala. the judge is hearing this case. >> right. >> finds out that they're not there. he's hearing their asylum case. finds out that they're on a plane and says turn that plane around. >> right. h...

Do not do this. the effects, horrible. and they went ahead with it. >> let me just clarify what was on the screen. there's actually 559 kids. it's been two months, by the way, since i went inside the shelter and saw all those boys separated from their parents. two months after that, still 559, remain separated, and 365 kids have parents who have already been deported. this is the latest as of yesterday. >> so they say all these kids came unaccompanied. that's not the case, correct? >> no, absolutely not. as a matter of fact, again, 2,551 systemically were separated from their parents at the bo...

But it's not just that. it is a concern about the direction of the country all across america. while there is a very real fear that the trump administration will roll back a lot of the progress we've made in the lgbt community, the worst of the bills that are targeting us are coming in the statehouses across america, and we have an unprecedented number, as you've said, more than 400 out lgbt candidates running. there are only 559 currently sitting lgbt elected officials. we have a map called the alpha america map. anyone can access it and look it up. 559 currently serving. this is a surge of c...