we at raices have essentially had to become private investigators ourselves to be able to locate children and parents. and you heard miguel s report there that they re discussing the possibility of using dna tests as an attempt to match up families with their children and officials saying that s because they want to avoid possible human trafficking. do you think that s a legitimate reason for the use of dna tests in this respect? i think it s a gross violation of human rights. they re is essentially trying to fix one violation of unaccompanied minors civil rights with another violation of their civil rights. and we haven t been able to get an updated number on the number of kids still being held in custody after being separated from their parents. the health and human services secretary, alex azar, will only say that it s under 3,000. take a listen to what the secretary had to say. first, again, i want to be really clear, a couple of you have said the word, 3,000. i want to be
given us previously. seener in correspondent nick valencia joins us from one call center in texas. nick, tell us about the deadline. today is the day, erica that all parents must have some sort of phone contact with their childr children. we re at raices, this is where there will be a phone bank set up later this morning and that s what this organization will do, they ll use cell phones to contact detainees, make sure parents have contact with their kid kids. wom one woman at the detention center said she doesn t know where her child is. these parents desperately trying to get in touch with their loved
toddlers as young as three or four years old who received these no your rights presentations from groups like raices in these shelters are perfectly aware and equipped to follow along in the proceedings. it s absurd. it would be laughable if it wasn t so sad. and ephraim, the president and his administration are incysting now that what they re doing now, what they ve only started in late april and may, they were never doing it before but they just started doing it, they re insisting this is the law and they have no choice. they don t explain why they had a choice before april and don t have a choice now but because they re saying they don t have a choice, they are now talking about building, opening new facilities for infant babies because they have never had to deal with this number of infant babies before because this is a new policy. it s outrageous in 2018 in america we re talking about building internment camps. and when they came claiming the law requires family separation, t
sitting in front of them without an attorney? well, i don t have to tell you what i think. i know that one immigration judge testified he believed that toddlers as young as three or four years old who received these no your rights presentations from groups like raices in these shelters are perfectly aware and equipped to follow along in the proceedings. it s absurd. it would be laughable if it wasn t so sad. and ephraim, the president and his administration are incysting now that what they re doing now, what they ve only started in late april and may, they were never doing it before but they just started doing it, they re insisting this is the law and they have no choice. they don t explain why they had a choice before april and don t have a choice now but because they re saying they don t have a choice, they are now talking about building, opening new facilities for infant babies because they have never had to deal with this number of infant