guatemala. i spoke to her through a glass window using a prison-like phones. she has been told reunification is imminent. she has been like that for eight years. every day, she asks, where is my child? she knows today is the deadline. the des priration is growing for her and 40 other mothers in there with her in that state of limbo. and that same sentiment was echoed by another father, abraham, who was released from here but told me about that anguish days before reunification happened for him. this is how he described it. >> those days before you got your child back, how would you describe it? >> translator: it's difficult to communicate with your family. all we wanted was to have our kids back.