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Legal relief and they go to refugee status and not unaccompanied children. it's few and far between, but we do have that process where some children do not have anybody to go to, their families have been killed, murdered, just different, very tragic situations. hopefully when you to speak to some of the children -- to a couple of the children today, you'll see that there is not hope for them to go back to a country that they're leaving. so we get the broad spectrum. we have kids that come into custody and are reunified rather quickly if everything works out and if they can qualify for refugee ...

"the daily beast" and the "new york times." let's start with where abby left off. so many unanswered questions. very important questions. one of the things that struck me about what she said is that right now, and this could change in an hour because we're getting so many directives as they do figure outs policy on flight, is thfligh the fly, is the children we've seen in these facilities might not be reunited with their parents until their parents are already prosecuted, and that could take a while becseare su there aren't enough judges, there aren't enough people down there to actuall adjudi...

These individuals have been through the process, the prosecution process, for crossing the border illegally and that they're working toreun process that they are in the process of putting together as we speak. so this is really a policy that this administration is putting together on the fly, and at the same time while this is happening, there are some questions about what is happening to the families even when they're being detained together. are they going to be detained indefinitely with parents and children together and where and for how long? so dana, a lot of questions here for this whit...

Their families, are indeed their families, so there is a process. we have to follow all our policies and regulations and make sure we positively identify that the persons they are communicating with are, indeed, their family. and that could be through verification of birth certificates, photo identification. but we do communicate with the families. >> so when the children come here, what kind of stage, physical and mental stage do they come here? what would you say the percentage that come here? >> usually the great majority are a higher percentage rate. usually when they get here, they're ver...

>> can you explain that process, how you do that? >> so at the time of detention or apprehension, we work very closely with our parents at homeundersta homeunderstand. we have a network of foster homes throughout the united states that are loons many. it's a family setting these kids work in. we assess them for any medical need or serious complication where we may have to find the right situation because we get every type of child in our system, someone who is nonverbal to someone whose mom perished in