the age of 5. many of the parents of these children have already been deported, making understandably any reunion even more difficult. those reunions now not up to the government, now up to the aclu. joining me, lee gellar, he is suing the administration over these separations. lee, i think we have spoken almost weekly since even before the deadline came and went since this all happened. what's the explanation now for nearly 500 children still being separated from their parents? >> yeah, well, i think the problem was that the government didn't give -- didn't themselves look for the parents who were deported and didn't give us the information when they should have. so now the process is beginning in ernest. it's just beginning in ernest. we're hopeful we will reunite these families soon. but i have to say that there is