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The administration says 879 families have been reunited. doubling the total since friday. in portland, mayor wheeler is warning demonstrators to peacefully leave the i.c.e. facility they occupied for the last five weeks. wheeler says now is the time for a sustainable immigration policy. if you have kids, goldfish are in your pantry. which are being recalled this morning and why? next.
The federal governmentto meet n reunite illegal families held in custody. casey stegall is live in dallas. do we know how many children have been reunited so far? >> dana, the numbers are fluid. according to court documents, we've been able to get some information. the feds say out of the roughly 2,500 or so kids that are ages 5-17 years of age who are separated from their parents or families at the border all but 71 of them have found a parental match. the reunicase process is underway. the deadline being thursday. they will occur at an ice facility. then humanitarian groups get to work, this...
Only half. there are about 102 total. now, the administration is struggling to keep up with the pace of these deadlines, struggling to find some parents, either because they've been released into the u.s., into criminal us ccustody, or have b deported. miguel marquez is in texas. where does the unification process stand at this hour? >> reporter: well, it has begun in cities across the country. i.c.e. vans are pulling up to centers that are housing children, picking them up. we saw this in phoenix, arizona, for instance. several kids there at two different facilities were picked up, taken to a...
They said the kids were excited to be reunited with their families. of course, the staff, they were excited to see them go as well. now, two of the vans from this morning, from those two separate shelters that i mentioned, jim, they ended up at an i.c.e. facility not far from here, just north of downtown phoenix. it is an i.c.e. enforcement and removal operation center. the big question in all of this, of course, is how many kids will be reunited with their parents and still be detained with their families? how many might be deported out of the country, and how many might be released somewhere...
Mcclain, my colleague in phoenix. we're seeing the transfers of the youngest children are happening right now, is that right? >> reporter: that's right. so within the last hour or so, we were outside of a children's -- a children's care facility for immigrant children. we saw a white van pull up, and about five small children got into the van and drove away. the van came to this facility where we are now. this is an i.c.e. facility. my colleague was at another facility, another children's care facility, where he saw a similar scene. he says about a half a dozen kids getting into a van, backpac...