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police hope this image seen almost 50 million times online can provide an identity. good day to all of you, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." 1:00 on the east coast, 10:00 a.m. on the west. gop presidential candidate donald trump expected to speak a short time from now in las vegas as he continues his campaign out west while criticizing the nation's immigration policies. yesterday in beverly hills, over 100 demonstrators gathered outside his hotel where he held a news conference talking about the issue. trump brought together people who said their relatives had been killed by undocumented immigrants. >> wherever somebody hears that it was an illegal that was involved with the death of their children it becomes politically incorrect for a politician to help them. that's how messed up our nation
states and other western nations. i think this is going to continue to be a focus here with this administration as they continue their campaign against isis in iraq and syria. alex? >> from the white house, kristen welker. thank you for the latest. police in massachusetts are pleading with the public to help them solve the mystery of a little girl whose lifeless body was found in a trash bag two weeks ago. while her picture has been viewed more than 50 million times on social media, police are still unable to identify her or learn anything about her background i spoke with a "boston globe" reporter who's been following this story. >> they have identified where her clothes could have come from, right? talk about some of the details. >> investigators have released a lot of details about how they found the little girl. she was wearing a pair of white leggings with black polka dots and she was partially wrapped in a zebra print blanket made of
a new hbo documentary goes behind the headlines about gun violence in america. "requiem for the dead" the driven entirely by excerpts from social media, news and police reports to tell the stories of some of the 8,000 victims who were fatally shot during the spring of 2014. >> chris was like i can't live without her. and none of us took that as to mean that he couldn't live without shore nobody else was going to. and he just took her. from all of us. joining me now from the emmy award winning directors of the film shari cookson and nick doob. welcome to you both. such a powerful documentary. this film was extraordinary. i want to ask you, shari, what
led you to focus on gun fatalities in the spring of 2014. >> well, there were big shootings going on in the headlines at that time. elliot roger was happening in california and -- >> that was ucsb correct? >> that was ucsb. and you sit on your couch and you watch these things on news shows and just as a person it so affects you and we were already thinking ant doing a gun film and i think what struck us was okay this is one story getting a lot of attention but what else is happening in the country that we might not hear about? it was such a journey for us to find out that meanwhile there were 8,000 other people being -- shot and killed in the spring. and trying to measure that amount of loss of human life was what sort of let us on the trail for making the film. >> and nick what was the rationale behind adding social media, news and police reports
contributor and attorney roe reyes. who are these sanctuary cities designed to protect? >> sanctuary cities are actually designed to prevent the city dosh protect the cities and local law enforcement officials in those cities. they were the ones who passed those laws in response to state laws cracking down on illegal immigration and that sounds convoluted but here's why. traditionally the federal government is charge in charge of immigration enforcement. that's the way it's always been but when states start passing these laws, in effect they were turning local police community police into immigration agents. that meant cities had far greater expenses. that meant they incurred liability issues. these local police didn't have the training so the city said we don't want to do it this is not our job, you do your job, which is rounding up undocumented people and we will go back to fighting crime. that's how sanctuary cities came to be. >> you're an attorney.