it was built in 1780 on a spanish land-grant, just north of the rio grande river in south texas. it really represents the spanish influence, which pregenerated or were the originators of the ranching history and a started to develop ranching in mexico, then into texas. so, most correlated with -- los correlitos represents that time. the spanish were the ones who first brought cattle, sheep, goats and horses to the new world. so this is really the beginning of the story. and it helps tell the spanish influence that really resonates becauseall of ranching, many of the words that we use like, even our word for rope, it comes from a spanish word. ramuda, which is what we call the herd of horses, all of those are spanish terms that have a significant influence on what we do on ranches, even today. an adobeas originally structure. it was built to be a dwelling. plus, to be a defense mechanism. and really a fort against bandits or indian attacks. so the walls are three feet thick. there are rifle ports in the walls where the defenders inside were able to be able to fire out through the

life in south texas in 2007-2011 or so. but then i happen to get a job which i hadn't had in a really long time. i was working close to the canadian border. i applied thinking the blessed anyway. i arrived thinking, let's see what's happening here. i took a nap and i was like, wow, there's a lot of not a whole lot. but then i saw there's a mohawk nation, that's interesting. it was within an hour drive away. i've always been interested in indigenous issues. but never had the opportunity to be in close proximity. i arrived and it was just a job. every story i had encountered in the seven years of reporting in south texas, i found the exact mohawk replica or the exact mohawk activists. it was amazing. and also profoundly disturbing. it began to make me realize that i was onto something. that this is something we are doing systematically to our marginalized populations in this area. this violent disposable landscape is how we're conceiving of our borderlands regions. >> there are so many facets in these books. you will have an

were a few days, they transferred to the south texas family residential center, and that is where my client was reunited with her daughter. so her daughter was actually not in a shelter. she was in a foster care situation. they reunited. my understanding is that that happened for a large number. there are still people we are in contact with, parents we are in contact with, in san antonio and also port isabel who are still awaiting reunification, sadly. obviously, this is a situation where all monitoring to figure out when and how the reunification's will occur. amy: can you talk about your client that he -- you say she what?essured by ice to do >> they did appear for some amount of time that she was being pressured to sign a document that would authorize her deportation. let me say this, but he is not the only person who brought this piece of paper to my attention and to the attention of other media outlets. of time wheneriod many parents were being shown a piece of paper, and their options were basically -- i think this is where the confusion lies, because most of them said to me, a

. >>> now to an update about the four murders in south texas including two at a nursing home. police say 60-year-old trichd starry shot and killed his father and stepmother at nursing home on friday. he then turned the gun on himself. investigators found two bodies at starry'shome. they believe he killed a 13-year-old boy adopted by his parents a40-year-old son of his stepmother. there's no word on a motive. >>> also south texas panic and terror inside of a mall thiste r fears of an active ooter. take a look atti drac cell phone video. you can see people in a panic running, screaming. this all started with a failed robbery attempt at aeewelry stor inside the mall at mcallen. they thought they heard gunfire when they smashed display cases at the store. police arrested suspects and fortunately no one was hurt in the chs. >>> a new memorial honors victims of 2012 movie theater massacre in aurora, colorado. hundreds of people gathered at 720emorial to pay tribute to 13 people injured and killed during that shooting. e memorial features 83 white cran cranes, each containing a perso

texas detention center last night. she heads to arizona where she hopes to see her daughter as early as tomorrow pending dna results. >>> ahead on "early start." stormy daniels in the news again. arrested overnight. we will tell you why and what her lawyer is saying next. >>> breaking overnight. stormy daniels arrested at a strip club in ohio. michael avenatti tweeting his client taken into custody for allowing a customer to touch her on stage which is a sigh legislation of -- violation of an ohio law. cnn has reached out to the columbus police department for additional information. >>> china vows retaliation of the u.s. tariffs. looking to hit back. the trump administration drew up a new list of $200 billion of chinese goods. slapping 10% tariffs on thousands of items. china plans to hit back, but doesn't buy enough from the u.s. to match dollar for dollar. about $130 billion of u.s. goods. beijing will use qualitative measures. that could be bad news. china is a huge market for many american markets. it means stricte

six year-olds mother was released from the south texas detention center last night. and heads to arizona. where she hopes to see her daughter tomorrow. >> white house comes with more scrutiny than working at fox news. bill shines wife said about women being sexually harassed in the military. you don't want to live with mom and dad forever, do you? i'm making smoothies! how do i check my credit score? credit karma. don't worry, it's free. credit karma. give yourself some credit. >>> breaking over night stormy daniels arrested at a strip club in ohio. his client was taken into custody for allowing a customer to touch her on stage. he calls the arrest politically motivated. cnn reached out to the columbus police department. >> trouble this morning for the brand new white house deputy chief of staff for communication bill shine. audio of his wife mocking victims of sexual harassment. she's been under scrutiny for reportedly making racially charged remarks and spreading baseless antivac nation conspiracy theories on her deleted twiter account. these comments on a radio sh

you had grasslands from south texas where a lot of longhorns were located through indian territory to kansas. if you're going to take cattle to the markets in kansas, the logical route was this corridor that came right through here, right through ft. worth. it was called the chisolm trail. it was called the great texas trail. it was called all kinds of other names but chisolm is really the name that stuck to it. it was named for jessec chisolm who was a businessman, a cattle buyer out of illinois. he created the opportunity to sell texas cattle to the cattle buyers in kansas that would ship the cattle to chicago to be processed. the route through ft. worth was a trail he designated and connected these cattle to kansas and the rail heads there. the tnp railroad came to ft. worth in 1876. then after a number of year or actually ten different rail lines that came to texas or to ft. worth. the reason why this is so important and relevant to the cattle industry is that it was becoming a time where you were going to ship cattle by rail and so you had to have rail locations and so with havin

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texas. this video was shot by the government, which is yet to allow any journalists to bring cameras inside. that's me in the blue shirt. right after that tour, i shared my thoughts on the air. >> people in here are locked up in cages, essentially what looked like animal kennels. i don't know any other way to describe it. >> so we have about 55 miles of border wall. >> i spoke about those kids with manuel padilla, the border patrol chief of the rio grande section in valley, texas. >> is this a deterrent? are you trying to deter people from coming by separating the children from their parents and prosecuting 100% of the people that come here. >> yes. the point is we have an upward trend, right? if we do not do anything, we're going to be in a crisis mode. >> so separating parents and kids is to put consequences on them coming here together? >> yes. yes. >> padilla says the administration's recent zero tolerance policy against immigration is part of the overall effort to stop dangerous people

look at the 90sacross the northeast, the south, texas and the dessert southwest. i show you this because this heat here, the ridge of high pressure is moving into the west. that is what is hovering over the dessert southwest into the weekend and beyond. the warming trend starts tomorrow because of this here. the temperatures are on the rise. you may want to go to the beach. in is a surf line camera view. starts tonight and lasts through saturday. we have a big slow coming through, 7-footers expected. this is why. working into the shoreline and near nor land. but it's bringing us a significant swell. the temperatures by the weekend, upper 90s and a lot of sunshine. i don't blame you if you want to cool off. there are many people enjoying their vacations. >> i know. >> they have the day off. why not. >> yes. >> thank you. >>> heads up if you plan to fire up your grill on this form. there is a hidden danger doctors are talking about. research shows 100 people go to the emergency room every year due to small pieces of wires from the wire brush. some injuries require s

there was a family from south texas that used to come up for about six weeks out of every year. they had their own farm. in south texas and they would come up to indiana because there was a time when the crops weren't working because it was too damn hot for that. they would come up and pick tomatoes. side by side with my mom and her sister and brother in the fields. until everybody started passing away, we would get a call from them. nobody was happier than them when my mom married a hispanic guy. and at my dad's funeral, there were basically our cousins. they were on the texas side. so it's not exactly the point. but the point i'm trying to make is those kind of relationships basically fell apart with the closing of the border. when you have border security at the level that we have, when you cut off people's ability to have that kind of circular migration, when coming and going across that border end up being a huge move, circular migration stops. whether it's for the workers, the communities they're in, or for the farmers, growers, landscapers, quarry owners, restaurant owner

we've learned about at least nine families here in south texas. and marty, we're monitoring not just here in south texas but central texas. we know of multiple facilities where we're getting information from both inside the detention center from people and people have come out where the families are being reunited. the ones that we know about have been released with their children. >> rosa flores, we appreciate the fact you're covering it so closely for us, thank you. >>> next, controversy. after this video surfaces of two georgia police officers allegedly using an app after pulling over a speeding driver to determine whether someone goes to jail or not. you like to be in control. especially when it comes to important stuff. like, say... your car. well, good news. the esurance app lets you keep an eye on your repairs when your car is in the shop. it's kinda like being there, without being there. which is probably better for everyone. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. when you're crafting ♪ perfo

not part of a delegation of eight democratic house members who toured detention centers in south texas. >> if the average american saw what i saw, family separated, lied to, they would be appalled. >> reporter: no cameras allowed inside but the congressman said he saw scenes like the ones in these images released earlier this year. children still living in cages, he says he spoke directly with families who have been torn apart by the zero-tolerance border policy. some of whom have been reunited. this is one traumatized child, authorities told him his family abandoned him. >> he was told they brought you here and they sacrificed everything and they don't want to see you again. you are going in foster care and will be adopted by someone and you will never see her parents again. >> a judge set a deadline for thursday for families to be reunited but according to a report, less than 15% or 364 of the 2551 families are not back together. this morning, marco rubio said the federal government doesn't appear capable of meeting the deadline. >> we don't have the capacity to hold families togethe

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i'm joined from chicago byjosh blackman, who is an associate professor at the south texas college of law, specialising in constitutional law and the us supreme court. given that is your speciality, is this the choice you thought president trump would choose?m this the choice you thought president trump would choose? it is not a surprise. 0ver president trump would choose? it is not a surprise. over a year ago it was reported that president trump was reported that president trump was considering justice kennedy as a replacement. as a way to persuade him to require a retired. brett kavanaugh him to require a retired. brett kava naugh served the him to require a retired. brett kavanaugh served thejustice kennedy 20 years ago and i may suspect that had someone to do with the decision to step down. so now he has appointed two candidates to the court that they are both very conservative. you mentioned are leaning is because of the short list of the four likely nominees, they we re of the four likely nominees, they were all considered to be conservative leaning but as far as this choice, br

dakota texas washington or wyoming the answer is actually all of the seven listed none of them have individual income taxes did you get it right it's sort of a trick question. and now we focus on tax rates around the world to lend us a hand we're joined by our friend the c.e.o. and founder of straw mark the rift word which hillary thanks for being with us first of all what are what's the best place to live from a tax perspective well around the world i think is an interesting question and good to be back again by the way i have a can be up for that actually which is you know tax rates might be low and they might seem to be low and brokaw's to be low but when you actually live there or do something that you find that the government gets your taxes no matter how margaret thatcher used to say there's no such thing as a free lunch i've got to tangible examples i bought a bottle of champagne b. before christmas in washington d.c. . and then coincidentally i happened to be in texas a few weeks later and took a bottle of piper heidsieck that i bought locally to a family seven dollars diffe

dakota texas washington or wyoming which ones have no state individual tax the answer right after a break will be that. you know world's big partners. mark and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need. to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. counting firms the banks the rating agencies the government and the central bank it's called a racket the u.k. profits from it and some late that's how the aristocracy keeps going and that's not going to stop. welcome back the answer to our quiz question which of the following states have no income tax alaska florida vaga south dakota texas washington or wyoming the answer is actually all of the seven listed none of them have individual income taxes did you get it right it's sort of a trick question. and now we focus on tax rates around the world to lend us a hand we're joined by our fri

texas who have bonded on their asylum claim. we spoke to five family members searching for their kids. i want to show you what that looks like or sounds like. >> that is a mother has been separated from her six-year-old for over a month. she got out of detention 72 hours ago. she came to this facility in brownsville to see her ten-year-old. she saw him for an hour, they would not let her take him home, says it's going to be at least a month process. she is beside herself. joe? >> with good reason. thank you, miguel marquez. >>> we will continue to bring you the latest developments out of thailand on the rescue of the remaining eight boys and their coach trapped in a cave. also ahead, puerto rico still recovering from hurricane maria is bracing for another storm and no one is taking chances. a live report from san juan straight ahead. at gillette for 20 years.king be there's a lot of innovation that goes into making america's #1 shave. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes cl

texas where there aren't many around. ed lavandera, cnn, mccallum, texas. >>> president trump's political base may not be as unshakeable as it sometimes appears. some farmers in iowa who supported him in 2016 now say his trade policies are causing them very serious financial harm. this could spell trouble for the president's party in november's mid-term elections. cnn's nick white has our report. >> reporter: dark clouds over an island soy bean field. >> i'm worried. >> reporter: what about eye owe juan farmers? >> it's anxious times. yeah, no doubt about it. >> reporter: because in april china slapped an extra 25% tariff on imports of american pork. >> the pigs you're probably talking 2 to $300 million impact already. >> reporter: that's just iowa. now china is threatening something similar, soy beans. the two largest economies on earth locked in a trade war largely over intellectual property in the tech industry. >> we get punished, we as agriculture, so to speak. that was a good one. >> reporter: iowa gets hit hard. on

the cairns center in south texas at one time over the course of the next few days. they're begging the judge for seven days between the time the reunification happens and any potential deportation, to get them legal counsel to stay in the united states. and the government is saying, we don't want that to happen. >> then i want to come back with what they're doing. you wrote this letter and said it is child kidnapping. why did you use that word? >> because that's what it is. the government has taken parents, children, deliberately away from parents. toddlers, children who are breast feeding. this is for the purpose of deterring people who are coming. it is cruel, inhuman, it is depraved, and they weren't prepared for family reunification at all. this only happened because aclu intervened. reporters reported about it. but the government just didn't care about reunifying these children. if you take children from parents without due process, it is kidnapping in my view and under the law. >> so this gets us to the part that they are not eligible. i have a hard time proce

. >> reporter: a woman being held at the port isabel detention center in south texas said in a phone call to cnn that she is unsure where her son is, and that the two calls a week have never happened. she says no one has called in that the social workers will e is desperate to s. know how her son is in that she wants to talk with them officials say most of had one phone call but some say not regularly and others say not at all. it is unclear whether they can reunite the kids age 4 or under by next tuesday. el salvador visited their citizens in detention and one mother had this stunning claim. >> some parents still do not know exactly where their children are. this mother only knows her three-year-old is somewhere in new york. >> reporter: in the documents filed in federal court the government says they are trying to verify the parentage through the dna test and likely will not make the deadlines to reunite all of the families. >> the embattled head of the environmental protection agency, first class travel, treatment of staff, ethics and spending. president trump said the resignation

the other big story the heat across the south, texas and oklahoma with temperatures well over 100-degrees, we are watching texas really no relief as we head into the weekend with heat advisories in effect, so dangerous heat, please be aware, all right, back to you, gr we are and adam. gerri: big trouble from the weather, thank you for that. coming up merck becomes latest company to announce price cuts and it's summer time, so how does a lobster roll potato chip sound? >> really good. gerri: we will talking about that. checking u.s. stock market futures, dow down 35, s&p 500 up -- down 1 and a half, nasdaq up 26 and a half, you're watching fbn:am. discover prescription omega-3 vascepa. the one that's this pure... and fda approved. look. vascepa looks different... because it is different. it's pure epa. vascepa, along with diet, is clinically proven to lower very high triglycerides by 33% in adults, without raising bad cholesterol. that's pure power. proven to work. vascepa is not right for everyone. do not take vascepa if you are allergic to icosapent ethyl or any inactive ingredient in va

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. >> reporter: buses filled with immigrants regularly come and go at this bus station in south texas. for several families who have been reunited after being separated for illegally crossing the border, arriving here is just the beginning. >> many of the immigrants are taken here to central station in mcallen. they will catch a bus to meet with family or relatives in different parts of the country. >> reporter: there was an influx of government agencies attempting to reconnect families before a court imposed deadline on july 26th. >> for the last few days, we have seen various agencies scrambling to reunite families. >> reporter: it sometimes happened in the dead of night. in parking lots of facilities like the detention center near brownsville. a federal judge who imposed a court deadline praised the administration's efforts. some advocates called it chaosic . >> from then on, people are on their own so it's falling on nongovernmentable organizations to help them literally get to the bus station. get them fresh clothes, some food, some rest. >> reporter: the families are given immigr

these are nine individuals who are in detention here in south texas. their kids some of them have one some have several scattered across the united states. these individuals have to make bond first. anywhere between 1,500 and $2,500. not a huge amount of money but enormous for them. they have to get out of detention and find out where the kids are and work with health and human services to get verified and get their kids back and get to the place where they can actually be reunited. all of this could take weeks. >> the governor in thailand says weather is the biggest concern in rescuing a youth soccer team trapped in a flooded cave. monsoon rains are expected to pick up over the next few days kp that could reflood areas where the water has been pumped out. rescue crews searching for air vents in the hills above the cave. where they might be able to pull those boys out. >> he joins us now live. david, as we have heard, weather conditions are controlling the out come of the rescue effort. one of the options is having the boys wear oxygen masks and led by

but there was a group of congressmen who toured some of the facilities here in south texas where these children are being held. we asked them, what they thought of the situation. and this reunification process and why it's taken so long to put the families back together. is it clear to you the administration didn't have a plan to reunify these families? >> i think -- i don't think they fully thought through the zero tolerance policy implications on these young families and now have realized the mistake, frankly. and the president's executive order begins to fix that and now they have to put people back together. >> reporter: wolf, that's the significant there, that's congressman greg walden of oregon, the chairman of the house energy and commerce committee and oversees the office of refugee resettlement that's in charge of running these shelters where the children have been kept so, you know, that criticism from a fellow republican of how this entire process is playing out is rather significant, wolf. >> ed, how will the reunifications work? have you seen these reports that some of the

texas but will be there soon. after alisson was done talking to her mom, i told cindy i was on the plane with her daughter. [ speaking foreign language ] she was not scared on the plane. si? muy fuerte. you are very strong, right? at 3:00 a.m., cindy arrives at houston intercontinental airport for the reunion she's been dreaming of for a month, finally getting to hold hands with her daughter. >> yay! [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: big smiles! the little girl heard the world over on the gut-wrenching propublica audio tape back with her mother, a mother released from a detention center in texas after being approved to proceed with her asylum claim following a journey from el salvador. cindy not even knowing where her daughter was after they were separated a little over four weeks ago. alisson says, "i missed my mommy. i was so happy to see her at the airport. i'm happy i will now see her all the time." cindy says she isn't going to take her eyes off alisson and is excited they are now in this country tog

. >> joining us now from south texas is ruby power. she's an immigration attorney who is working with some of the separated families. ruby, we know today is very busy for you. thank you for taking the time with us. how many families are you working through this with? what is their status? >> for the last six weeks or so, i've been working with about 20 different families. this is my second visit to the border. my firm's third visit total. i havetwo families that are my clients right now, one i'm waiting to get reunited today. her son should be flown in. i'm waiting for the call when his flight will land. another one was reunited but sent to karnes. we are working to get him released. >> you have been in constant triage mode. explain. >> yes. i came down here four weeks ago, the same day as the injunction was announced. i have been following these families, finding out some have been released, some have been reunited and sent to family detention centers. have i be it's a legal relay race, because we can't all be physically here in dete

the strategy failed, the president didn't like the imagery coming out of south texas, where you saw the kids in cages, and they decided to reverse this. they've already admitted there are 917 parents, out of the 2,551 kids, who are ineligible for any form of reunification so far. we already know potentially up to 463 of those parents are already outside the country. and you can't be reunited in the u.s. categorically if you're already outside the country. >> what are they going to do? do they have a process in place to find the people they've already deported? if they left them with a phone number to call, that has, i don't know, a spanish speaking person on the other side? have they given them sort of identification or number that they will be able to use to find their kids? >> you're asking all the right questions that not only we're asking but the aclu is asking as the plaintiff in this lawsuit that's basically forced the issue here. if you are deported and you've signed a waiver that the aclu says some of these parents were force book d into signing or di know they were signing, the

mother cindy telling her she and her lawyer are on a very long drive to the airport from south texas but will be there soon. after alison was done talking to her mom, i told cindy i was on the plane with her daughter. >> she was not scared on the plane. see? you are very strong, right? >> at 3:00 a.m., cindy arrives at houston intercontinental airport for the reunion she's been dreaming of for a month, finally getting to hold hands with her daughter. the little girl heard the world over on the audiotape back with her mother, a mother released from a detention center in texas after being approved to proceed with her asylum claim following a journey from el salvador. sinnedny not even knowing where her daughter was after they were separated a little over four weeks ago. alison says i nissed my mommy. i'm so happy to see her at the airport. i'm happy i will now see her all the time. cindy says she isn't going to take her eyes offal alison and is excited they are now in this country together. cindy says everyone knows the united states say great country, it's safer, there's better educat

a woman named ada being held at port isabel detention center in south texas says in a phone call to cnn, she's not sure where her son is and the promise of two calls a week have never happened. no one has called, she says. social workers don't answer our calls. i'm desperate. i want to know how my son is. i want to talk to him. by a federal judge's order, the trump administration has until today to put detained parents in regular contact with their kids. parents and lawyers representing them say most have had at least one phone call. some speak regularly. others, not at all. it's not clear the administration will meet other deadlines like reuniting kids 4 and under with their parents by next tuesday. a delegation from el salvador visited their citizens in detention at port isabel yesterday. one mother had this stunning claim. some parents still don't know exactly where their children are, he says. a mother here only knows her 3-year-old is somewhere in new york. in documents filed in federal court, the government says it is trying to verify parentage through dna tests and likely won't m

texas. the reunions were mandated by a federal judge and the trump administration will not meet the deadline. in all, the department of homeland security says it can reunite 38 of the 102 children under the age of 5 it's currently holding but a federal judge says the government should be able to reunite 63 by the end of the day. a department of homeland security official defended the agency's efforts to reunite these families. >> children. >> reporter: say the reunions have been delayed by efforts to verify that the detained adults are the biological parents of the children. an example they point to, officials say, three adults facing a dna test admitted they weren't tests and activists say it's a crisis created by the federal government and should be resolved much faster. >> all kinds of resources into separating them. could we double those resources back to reunite them? this is a huge nation with great resources. we could have done this in a flash and we can still do it. >> reporter: home

we expect some of that to happen here in the rio grande valley in south texas as well. two things really happening today. so that is happening. 54, perhaps 59 by the end of the day, children reunited with their families. the others, the government says, is just not going to be possible to do today. that will be discussed in court. but the bigger issue that will be discussed in court, what about the thousands of kids over 5 that need to be reunited with their parents? the judge in california going to basically work out a process because the trump administration doesn't have one for how that is going to happen. lawyers for the aclu that brought this suit want a truncated process, two, three days with existing documents, fingerprints, maybe if necessary dna tests. the trump administration says, no, we have to have these people treated like unaccompanied minors. that process could take a month, perhaps two. dana? >> miguel, thank you so much for that update. appreciate it. back here with the panel, look, this is about as difficult as it gets. but it bears repeating as much

south texas. >> my parents were migrants. >> reporter: she leads democratic and voted for hillary clinton and disagrees with president trump on every single issue, except for one, immigration. >> yes. that's about it. >> reporter: ironic given she was born in mexico. >> and not by choice. >> reporter: and lived in the america two decades and something could have got her deported under the very policies she supports. in what ways do you support president trump? >> the immigration, you know, what he says that too many people are coming over and because, like i said, a lot of people are good people but not everybody. >> reporter: too many immigrants are coming over? >> yes. >> reporter: her son born in the u.s. feels more connected to the mexican ties. >> what i have problem is they have blatantly said they are using that as method of deterrent to keep people from coming to this country. >> reporter: this generational divide is not uncommon according to prefer of mexican-american studies. what you're talking about are people who insist that there are american citizens. they are americans, no

a woman named ada held at port isabel detention center in south texas says in a phone call to cnn she is not sure where her son is in the promise of two calls a week have never happened. no one has called, she says, social workers don't answer our calls. i'm desperate. i want to know how my son is, i want to talk to him. by a federal judge's order the trump administration has until today to put detained parents in regular contact with their kids. parents and lawyers representing them say most have had at least one phone call, some speak really, others not at all. it's not clear the administration will meet other deadlines like reuniting kids 4 and under with parents by next tuesday a. delegation from el salvador visiting citizens in detention yesterday at port isabel. one mother had this stunning claim. some parents still don't know where their children are. a mother here knows the 3-year-old is somewhere in new york. in documents filed in federal court, the government said it is trying to verify through dna tests and likely won't make deadlines to reunite all families. now, the trump

we know of 16 in just this area of south texas in the days that have gotten bond or will make bond and be out. we've talking to one woman, these and 39 from guatemala and she just got out and show knows her son is in the facility and she came here today hoping to take him home. she saw him for an hour and came out afterward and i tried to get a word on how her son is doing and her here is her response. [ crying ] [ speaking foreign language ] i cannot get into a question with her she's wrecked emotionally. she says they're telling her it will take at least 30 days to get her son back. eessentially what the it government is saying is that even though we separated you, even though you came across as a family, even though we said who you were and your kids were, once you are out on this end, once you bonded out, we're going to treat your son as an unaccompanied minorer, as though he came across himself and now you, 39-year-old from guatemala who doesn't have any documentation, you have to prove to us this is in fact your son. that is a prosess that takes on average 30 days. if this is the

we see that -- some of that in the south texas area. along california, the border wall in san diego, which is now 30 years old, actually older than that, is in need of repair that is good. we also need to use modern technology, drones, other devices to monitor the border, which are very effective. all of that including personnel. these are all things that are important. i would add to that list the biggest border of all are the oceans. that's the role that the coast guard plays. we need to make sure they're funded. keep in mind that the appropriation bill that is in the house of representatives, the homeland security bill, removes nearly -- over a billion dollars from the coast guard. so we need to be thoughtful about the totality of this system. once again with regard to a shut down, threats are always going on back and forth in washington. if it becomes real, yes, we always provide for emergency services, continuing -- >> harris: absolutely. i want people to be clear on that. >> there's no question. it's the foundational issues, it's

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mother cindy telling her she and her lawyer are on a very long drive to the airport from south texas but will be there soon. after alison was done talking to her mom, i told cindy i was on the plane with her daughter. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: she was not scared on the plane. you are very strong, right? at 3:00 a.m., cindy arrives at houston intercontinental airport for the reunion she's been dreaming of for a month, finally getting to hold hands with her daughter. >> big smiles. >> reporter: the little girl heard the whole over back with her mother, a mother released from a detention center in texas after being approved to proceed with her asylum claim. following a journey. cindy not even knowing where her daughter was after they were separated a little over four weeks ago. alison says, i missed my mommy. i was so happy to see her at the airport. i'm happy i will now see her all the time. cindy says she isn't going to

texas to wherever it is is that the family s are gie going in the interior of the country, and actually, it is ice officials inside of the basilica helping them to do it. so they are playing some role down here in some way. but i was also a able to speak to sister norma who is leading the effort here about the emotional state that the families are coming here in and especially the young children. this is what she had to say. >> the child stories are very different. they seem to have been cared for very well wherever they were. of course, they were also i have had cases where the child was very sad because they never saw their parent and they didn't know where they were, and one little girl tells me tonight is the first time i am not going the cry, because i have cried every night i did not see my mom, and tonight, aim going to be sleeping with mom. >> and many of the families, many of the families are able to have sort of the first night togethert in this basilica which is by the way not operated by the government. it is operated by the catholic charities and just this morning we have s

meaning a change of a geographic location of their next immigration hearing to be moved from south texas to wherever it is they're going in the united states. and we are told it is i.c.e. officials inside places like this that are actually helping that process move along. so some progress is being made on the ground but for some families it is too little, too late, 48 hours before this deadline. >> so heartbreaking, thank you as always for your great reporting and for staying on this story. we of course are going to continue to follow this story here. >>> but coming up, a moment from the attorney general today getting a lot of attention. he said the words "lock her up" as the crowd he spoke to chanted that famous trump campaign rallying cry. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner

mother cindy telling her she and her lawyer are on a very long drive to the airport from south texas but will be there soon. after alison was done talking to her mom, i told cindy i was on the plane with her daughter. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: she was not scared on the plane. you are very strong, right? at 3:00 a.m., cindy arrives at houston intercontinental airport for the reunion she's been dreaming of for a month, finally getting to hold hands with her daughter. >> big smiles. >> reporter: the little girl heard the whole over back with her mother, a mother released from a detention center in texas after being approved to proceed with her asylum claim. cindy not even knowing where her daughter was after they were separated a little over four weeks ago. alison says, i missed my mommy. i was so happy to see her at the airport. i'm happy i will now see her all the time. cindy says she isn't going to take her eyes off alison, and is excited they are now in this country together. cindy says everyone knows the united states is a great country. it's safer. there is better

the mother was brought to a detention center in south texas, the daughter brought to arizona. they have been united. 3:00 a.m. local time at the houston george bush intercontinental airport that's where the reunion happened. hand in hand it was amazing watching the emotion, the happiness, the hopefulness, the gleefulness, the gigantic smiles on the mother and this daughter. how did it happen? well, the mother passed her credible fear interview two days ago and released from the detention center. the daughter was released from the shelter in arizona yesterday and then the daughter, alisyn, was put on an airplane and flown from phoenix to houston. i know a lot about the airplane ride because i was on the airplane with her. she had a window seat, she had her doll, she had her book bag, she had her coloring book and as you might expect, you won't be surprised to know it was her first plane flight, she saw above the clouds, she thought it was amazing and then she conked out and slept for the rest of the 2:15 flight. she got to the airport and had to wait three and a half hours with

they have a hearing in south texas. they're now in chicago to process their asylum. if they miss that hearing, which they're trying to move, but they still don't know if that will be possible, they'll be subject to immediate deportation. so on the ground you have lawyers, organizations, scrambling to be able to give these people -- this is all happening so fast. to be able to give these folks the legal counsel to make these life-changing decisions. >> what are the consequences for the u.s. government of not meeting that deadline next week? >> listen, we already saw with the younger kids, they went before that judge in san diego and asked for an extension and explained why some kids were just not eligible. but i think when we're talking about more than 2,000 children, i mean it's going to be a tall order. just because of the numbers that we're seeing, i don't know that they're going to be able to meet the deadline. that judge ultimately, what his argument was with the younger kids was i need to see progress. tell me why you're not able to reunify all of them and i'll

texas and even instances of people being turned away from the ports of entry and so there's really no clear explanation at this point of why this is taking place, if the administration has, you know, publicly said that the people who do have claims should go to the ports of entry, but we've seen waits of maybe up to even a month at times, two or three weeks for some of these asylum seekers to talk to an immigration officers. >> tahinking about what picture people are seeing, there has been pictures of some reunions, a video from logan airport in boston of a reunion, maybe we can show that. i want to show it to make the point that that's the exception not the rule. when we see pictures of reunions, this is not what's happening in most cases, right, neena, this is rare right now. most kids have not been reliably united. >> as far as we know, yes, that's correct. and i think a lot of these, you know, these reunifications are certainly going to happen behind closed doors and some will be at the request of the families themselves for privacy but i think also that it's been -- you know, the

. >> i actually want to show some video from our nbc correspondent tammy leitner who is in south texas. she accompanied a mom who was reunited with her 6-year-old son after more than a month. when you have these families here and they hear words from president trump and the administration saying don't come, it's illegal, why are you even coming to bring your kids, how do you come to terms with their understanding of that, that knowing ultimately there are some of these families who have children under the age of 5 with the distance of miles between them? >> well, first of all, we still have the rule of law with asylum and they still have an opportunity to apply for asylum. whether you enter the united states illegally or legally. so that shouldn't change. if a person flees with just the clothes on their back and with a young child, you know they have to be fleeing for their life. not many people would do that. and that is also seen as a reason in some cases of discretion in asylum, all things being equal, that a judge or an officer will realize that this is truly a legitimate case. so

we have been on the front lines of this crisis, monitoring the court system in south texas. through that vantage point, we have been directly talking with parents from the very beginning and continuing to represent them. at the point of which we started talking to the parents we represent. 382 of them. their kids had already been taken away and we have been working day in and day out to try and locate the kids and figure out how to bring everybody back together. now, the trump administration blames this partially at least on inherited a broken immigration policy, as it describes it, that isn't doing its job and wasn't doing its job. what do you believe is the best way of processing people who do cross the border? i mean, let's be clear. this is a crisis manufactured by the trump administration. we are talking about folks who are fleeing violence in their home countries and seeking asylum in the united states. the numbers of families fleeing are not anywhere close to historically high numbers. in fact, they look nothing like the numbers that folks in europe are dealing with.

one significant amounts of immigrants came in and created different settlements throughout south texas. only come around to the jewel , that really became the frontier, but they still maintained control over everything west of the. -- of that. the structures go on and tell the story. architecture changed as the railroad came and they were able types of things that they were able to build changing over time. the ranches donated the structure and they paid it to be transported and reconstructed the way it originally would have been during that initial time. so many of the stories capture people's imagination and attention. as much as anything, some of the dugouts, the matador, now a multi-thousand acre ranch, it is a brand and a name that is known around the world. really started out, basically, a duggan to the side of a hill with a simple frame structure in front of it. those kinds of stories really capture our visitors. of course, we talked a little bit about the four sixes ranch. we have the original four sixes thatbuilt in 1900, structure continues to capture people's imagination bec