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I got locked up at age 13. from there, i messed up by getting in a fight at school while i was at placement. it got me terminated from there. threatened my case worker. they kicked me out for that, and now i'm here. been here for the past three years. >> the number one issue offenders approach me on on a daily basis has to do with placements. it could be to do with their history and behavior, they have been in community placements before and kicked out. it's frustrating from my perspective. >> they can't find a placement for you? >> my mental history from the past, no placement will accept me ...

Well, you're right. alma, she was 24 years old right out of college and had signed up to be a caseworker for young immigrant children. planning to work with kids who had come to the united states unaccompanied and knew they were coming on their own when all of a sudden children who had been separated were showing up. she had no answers for a year as to how to deal with them. just for example in constantine's case, he arrived with a birth certificate and that was it. it was up to this 24-year-old woman to try to track down his parents. so it was stressful for her. it was just trying to console ...

These are not children who have been separated from their parents, but oftentimes they come with a grandparent or another relative. they are considered unaccompanied and, to be sent to health and human services which provides bed, adequate medical care, schooling, a case worker. but instead right now instead of being sent directly there, they're stuck right now at border patrol stations. they're not supposed to be there over 72 hours, no matter your age. but instead we're seeing children stay there as long as nine days. in fact a 1-year-old who was recently taken from his grandmother had a 105...

Else, she wouldn't have been in that situation. >> reporter: of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. >> unified police department. >> i need to report a runaway. my daughter is missing. >> reporter: her daughter was anne grace kasprzak. though when veronica first met annie, she wasn't a kasprzak at all. she wasn't even her daughter. she was a client, just 7 years old, with a rough childhood. >> she'd been through some abuse, and she had a hard time trusting other people. >> reporter: back in 2005, veronica was a case worker for utah's division of children and fa...

Losing its culture and west coast hub reputation t to the homeless population is the third highest in america and the most per capita of rarely enforced laws against camping so they live in tents in plainview many are addicted to heroin and meth drugs consumed in public against the law that almost never prosecuted possession of less than 1 gram does not get a court date or jail cell just a caseworker. >> to make life easier for certain categories of people has actually made it more difficult for everyone. reporter: and repeat offenders are vested routinely sent back to the streets homeless rac...