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That's my question, how do they know in fact, they are family units when 11,000 are unaccompanied minors, illegally crossed into the country, many of these minors are complete strangers to the families that drive them across the border because their parents are selling them and then allowing them to be abandoned in fields and now the children are unaccounted for? >> these are good questions, just for context, it's absolutely a crisis, by way of example, 144,000 undocumented border crossers were apprehended. in that group 84,000 were family units, the 11,000 you're talking about were above and ...

Counsel during the initial questioning? >> not during the initial questioning. that's just because the initial questions we take is really just buy graphical information. >> reporter: undocumented border crossers, they risk everything traversing a dangerous no man's land into the united states. but it's after their apprehended by u.s. authorities that many face a different kind of no man's land. a legal limbo. >> the border-crossers are an essentially terrible position, to put it mildly. border patrol spring on them with guns. do not provide them with legal rights. what needs to happen is thos...