.
- In the criminal justice system,
sexually based offenses
are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives
who investigate these vicious felonies
are members of an elite squad
known as the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
- All alone without her moose who's E broke free
and S came loose.
Go ahead and eat your broccoli, Jess, okay?
No, thanks.
- I just need to explain.
- Yeah, you always just need to explain.
- This is not like last time.
So instead of an escort's number,
you got a waitress's phone number.
- No, a waitress's mother's number.
- Please, Al.
- They know that I'm a cardiologist there.
She said that her mom is having a stent put in in a few days
and asked if I would call her to tell her
that it was routine. Just for peace of mind.
That's it. Scout's honor.
- So what's with the apology flowers?
- Well, you didn't call me back about going
to the Van Gogh exhibit, so I thought I'd bring
Van Gogh to you.
- I'm sorr--Al, really right now is not the best time.
- Cute place.
And is this Jesse?
Hello there, young lady.
Are we reading and eating broccoli?
Pro move. High five.
Yeah.
Where are we?
A cow has an idea? Huh?
I'll get some glue.
And I'll moo my best.
both:
See?
Right, yeah. Spoiler alert.
This is the greatest book.
How about more broccoli?
Mmm.
Do you like cows?
♪
- Oh, very concerned.
At current climate predictions,
it's estimated that Lagos will be completely underwater
as soon as 2050. As per a recent study...
Cash only.
- Yeah, my daughter. She's sick.
♪
- Oh, my--No, no, no.
- Do you know where the nearest hospital is?
- Mercy Hospital on 32nd street.
- Let's go.
♪
- Just drive.
Now!
♪
- Teenage girl dumped from a car at the drop-off zone.
Groggy and naked, wrapped in a bed sheet.
- There's a security camera though, right?
- I'll have the footage sent to you.
- She wouldn't let me.
But there were obvious signs of sexual trauma,
bruising, and tearing.
She had a rough night.
At least she was here.
Even if she was tossed away like a piece of trash.
- Hi.
I'm Detective Carisi. This is Lieutenant Benson.
Is it all right to talk right now?
- Actually, you can call me Olivia.
What's your name?
Delilah.
- Deliah. That's a pretty name.
It suits you.
So, Delilah, do you have any idea
how you got to the hospital?
- I don't really remember.
- Some pills.
- Do you remember who gave you those pills?
- Uncle Luke.
He's not really my uncle.
- He's--he's more like a friend.
- Yeah.
- So, Delilah, did--did Uncle Luke make you
have sex with him?
Did he hurt you?
- He wouldn't hurt me.
He sent me on a date with one of his friends.
♪
- Okay, you happen to know the friend's names
or
- Uncle Luke never makes me go back if I don't want to.
He loves me.
Please, please don't take him away.
♪
- So Uncle Luke is all she gave you..
- Yeah, this girl was groomed to keep her mouth shut.
- That name didn't pop on the registry.
Anything on the John that assaulted her?
I think Luke gave her some kind of tranquilizer.
- Yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot.
I got it.
Okay, so the hospital sent their camera footage over.
This is the entrance to the hospital.
- Car pulls up.
And the door opens.
Yeah, we got a driver, guy in the backseat.
No clear shot of the faces.
- I can't make out the numbers, but that's the T-plate.
That could be an Uber. - Or a car service.
- Okay, get it to TARU to enhance the image.
We find the driver, we find the perp.
- Police.
Welcome to America 2018.
- I don't want any problem.
- Yeah, well, it's a little late for that
after what happened to that girl in your car last night.
You know, the one you dumped off at the hospital?
- I didn't know that man was crazy when I picked him up.
- You didn't think it was weird he had a naked girl wrapped up
in a sheet? - He said it was his daughter.
He was taking her to the hospital.
- I wanted to, man. I really did.
But...
- You're illegal.
- I'm here for ten years now.
I have a wife and kids. Please don't send me back.
- Oh, we don't deal with any of that.
- Last week I got robbed with a gun to my head.
$600.
And I was too scared to report it.
- Listen, man.
If that happens to you again, call me.
Right now we're only concerned with your fare
in that car last night.
- White, in his 40s. Gray hair.
- Okay.
And, uh, where'd you pick him up?
- A building on 25th near the High Line
next to a pizza place.
- Okay, thank you. You did good.
Take care of your family.
- Carisi.
He can help me pick up this lead.
- This guy's violent. You know that, right?
- Yeah, and I can run same as you, Fin.
Pregnant or not.
- And what if something happens?
- Then it's not your problem.
Stop treating me like a ride-along.
- Can I call Carisi to have him meet us there?
- Fine.
- First and second floors are a bust.
- Yeah, nothing on three, either.
- All right, Carisi, you take four.
- With you.
I'm gonna take the fifth. I'm sure I'll manage.
- Police. Anybody in there?
- Yeah, everything's fine, ma'am.
Uh, we're detectives.
We're looking for a man in your building.
- He's white. He's got gray hair.
He's somewhere in his 40s.
- Oh, that sounds like the guest in 4B.
Over there.
- My neighbor, Christina. Lovely girl.
She's traveling in France.
She AirBNBs her apartment.
- Do you know if that guest is still here?
- Oh, yes. His name is Vince.
- Thank you, ma'am.
- Hey. Nobody's home on five.
- 4B could be our guy.
- We're the police.
We wanna ask you some questions.
- Um, I was just leaving.
- This won't take long. Mind if we come in?
♪
- I'm here from Cincinnati for the auto show.
I'm in mufflers and exhaust.
- Auto show was over two days ago.
- Right, yeah. I'm on my way to LaGuardia.
- Here. Excuse me.
Can you tell me what the hell's going on?
- I dunno, Vince, but this doesn't look
like your size to me.
- It must belong to the lady I rented the place from.
- She forget to give you sheets, too?
I'm gonna send this to, uh, the car service driver.
I did take a car to the movies last night.
What'd you see?
- Uh, that new Tom Cruise movie.
That's all you got, Vince?
Put your hands behind your back.
Wait.
Is seeing a movie a crime in New York now?
- No. But rape is.
- Let's go.
- Oops.
♪
- That's up to you, Vince.
- My wife.
Look, I really need to take that.
- Yeah, she's called a couple of times already.
- What were you doing with a 14
- You know, you need to be smart about this.
We have you on videotape.
We have a witness.
Deliliah's on her way down here to ID you right now.
- Two, boys.
- If you ever wanna see your kids again,
you're gonna tell us who sold that girl to you.
- Yeah.
Then we might let you take the next call your wife makes.
♪
- Look, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know she was on something.
When she started zoning out, I tried to help her.
I took her to the hospital.
That was the right thing to do, wasn't it?
- You heard that, Sarge, right?
- Yeah.
So you are the person who brought her to the hospital?
- Yeah.
- Okay, you're free to go.
- No, asshole. Sit down.
♪
You don't get brownie points after raping a kid.
- Now where did the girl come from?
♪
Huh?
No?
Okay, I'm just gonna call Billy back.
Let him know where his father is.
- No, wait, wait.
When I was in town last year for the auto show,
I got a number off a back page before they shut down.
Luke.
♪
- Okay.
So you're gonna call this Luke and you're gonna tell him
that you're hanging onto Delilah for an extra day.
- And you have a friend that's interested.
Then we'll let you talk to your wife.
♪
- Let me ask you something, Lieu.
What's--what--what's going on with Rollins?
- If you have a question about Rollins,
why don't you try asking her?
- She's pregnant.
Isn't she?
- Are you telling me she's not pregnant?
♪
- Yeah.
- This is for me. This is extra for Vince.
- Come on up.
You're gonna like what you see.
♪
Sweethearts. Come on, get up.
Meet a new friend of mine.
♪
- Okay. This the merchandise?
- Uh, yeah, except for Delilah.
She's with your friend, Vince, the lucky dog.
- What about that one right there?
- Oh, yeah.
She's not on the menu just yet.
Come on, I got some more over this way.
Come on. Girls, girls, come here.
- Let's go.
- Come here.
Come on.
Got a friend I want you to meet.
Come on.
- So I can pick one and do whatever?
- Within reason.
But you mess up my investment, that would not be cool.
You look like a guy with impeccable taste.
Have you made a decision?
- I have.
You're under arrest.
- Stop! Police!
- Liv, there's a little one over here.
- Carisi!
♪
- Yeah.
- Don't worry. I'm the police.
- Hey, sweetie. You're okay.
- Por favor.
- You're okay.
- No me lastimes.
- No, no, no. Estoy con la policia.
- No me lleves. Don't take me.
.
- So why did you run away from your parents?
- Duh. They freaking hate me.
And how long ago did you meet up with Luke?
Did he approach you?
- So at the bus station, Luke said he'd take care of you?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
He brought me McDonald's and these really sick kicks, so...
- Hey. - Hey.
They're so young. - Yeah.
And two of them escaped violent homes.
Uh, another one was living with her demented grandmother
and ran out of food.
We're trying to get the details on the rest of the kids.
You know, we're just trying to keep them comfortable
until we can place them somewhere.
- Uh, on the street. In a park.
One was actually plucked from a playground.
He has a talent for spotting, uh, vulnerability.
- They think they're contributing to the household.
He has them utterly manipulated.
Except for one.
- She's afraid of the guy that we collared.
And even more afraid of us.
- You need to meet uncle Luke.
- Mr. Frances, I'm ADA Stone.
- Ah, brought in the big guns with some big guns.
Is he gonna smack me around?
- No, but I might, after what you did to those girls.
Give them food?
I take in homeless, abused children.
- What the jury will hear is you on tape
selling children for sex.
- I was selling their company.
They're at an age where I can't control their every move.
- Who do you think you're talking to here?
- I love those girls.
And they love me.
They could have gotten up and left any time they wanted to.
And did they? - You brainwashed them.
- I saved them.
- That youngest one, she's completely traumatized.
- Oh, yeah, my little-- my little Gabriela.
- I rescued her.
Wandering around Port Authority like she was on another planet.
She could have done far worse than Uncle Luke.
Trust me.
- You are one twisted son of a bitch, you know that?
- I'm gonna make it my personal mission that you never lay your
hands on another girl.
- Yeah, blah, blah, blah. I want a lawyer now.
- Knock yourself out.
'Cause it's not gonna matter.
♪
- Hey.
So your name's Gabriela, huh?
♪
What's your last name?
- Sosa.
You know some English.
♪
Right? Who taught you?
Your parents?
♪
You took a bus to New York?
To the Port Authority?
- Yes.
Where did you take the bus from?
- I don't like to go back.
- Okay.
♪
Is your family bad to you?
- No. - You can tell me.
♪
You know I'm here to help you.
Now, can you tell me where you live?
- I want my mommy.
- Okay.
- Okay, we can talk about it later.
♪
I couldn't get a whole lot out of her.
I mean, she's exhausted.
She's distressed.
And maybe I can try a little later
when she trusts me some more.
- Okay.
Uh, where are we on the two girls that were abused?
- We reached out to ACS in their local precincts.
They'll follow up on the allegations.
- On the way back to their families.
Hopefully this will be a wake up call for them.
- So we have one more to go.
Let's put Gabriela through NCMEC.
- It's Gabriela Sosa.
- All right, I got a name match.
It's a, uh, missing persons alert
from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
That's a bus ride away.
- Her parents reported her missing?
- No, it's the New Jersey Department
of Children and Families.
- She was in foster care.
- Did I tell you about my cousin Nikki?
She's having another kid. You believe that?
- Five.
- Wow. - Yeah.
Hey....
Rollins, why didn't you tell me?
- All right.
- Son--Sonny, it was-- hey, I tried to.
I--I just-- I didn't know how.
Don't--don't start asking me questions right now.
And--and don't go all Catholic on me, okay?
- You're the detectives from New York?
- Yeah, Rollins, Carisi.
- We've been waiting for weeks for some news about Gabriela.
- Well, we need you to ID a photo for us.
- It's her.
They found her. Thank God.
- Wh--how in the world did she get to New York City?
- You tell us.
Your one job is to keep the child you're fostering safe.
- Please don't be angry with us.
We did the best we could to make her comfortable here,
but after all she's been through--
- She's very distrustful of Americans in general.
♪
- Well, you've--you've seen the news.
You know what's been going on.
- She was brought to us after she came across the border,
after our government separated her from her mother.
.
- Gabriela and her mother Maria were picked up
near the border in June.
Maria was arrested for unlawful entry.
Gabriela told us the agent grabbed her right out
of her mother's arms.
- That's insane.
Have a seat, please.
- Uh, from what we understand, Gabriela was brought to some
detention facility for kids in Texas.
- So how did she get to you in Jersey?
- We registered as a temporary foster family when we read
about the situation at the border.
We felt we could at least provide
a loving and nurturing home.
- It's better than being locked up in some vacant megastore
or an Army base in the desert.
- I truly admire you for taking this on.
I know that it couldn't have been easy.
- Gabriela wouldn't even look at us the first few days.
All she did was sit on the floor and cry for her mom.
- But, uh, we, uh--we finally got her to eat
and play a little with our boys.
- Did the foster agency provide you with a contact for Maria?
- We tried.
There was, uh, an 800 number where you're supposed to be
able to arrange a call.
At first they couldn't locate her.
And then it was always busy.
A few days later my son told us that Gabriela had asked him
how to get to Texas.
He said you take a plane from New York.
He didn't think she would actually try to do it.
- What's your favorite kind of ice cream, Gabriela?
- Vanilla.
- My favorite is salted caramel chocolate chip.
- Okay, they got that at your local bodega?
- They special order it for me.
- Mmm.
- Were the Wellbecks nice people?
- Yes. Very nice.
But I miss my mommy.
It make me sad.
- You know your mother's very far away, right?
- Yes.
Why la migra take her, Miss Amanda?
- Because when your mother crossed the border,
she broke the laws of our country.
- You didn't do anything wrong, sweetie.
So, what? What's gonna happen to her?
- We can't send her back to the Wellbecks.
- She'd just run away again.
- Look, guys, we have an obligation to notify
the Office of Refugee Resettlement and let them know
that we have her here.
- They'll send her to one of their tender age centers.
- I'll take her.
- Rollins, you can't take her.
- You took Noah.
- I did.
And this is very different.
- Not much.
♪
Could you remember--you remember Esther,
the last girl we let walk out of here?
♪
Rollins, you can't take her.
- Tracked down Maria Sosa's immigration lawyer.
She's at La Tuna Federal Detention Center now.
He's on his way there right now and he said he's pretty sure
he can set up a video call with Maria.
♪
- We go through Guatemala because my neighbor was killed
by La Mara.
He saw them kill a man.
So they drag him into the street and shoot him.
I get money from my family and take Gabriela
with the coyote to Mexico.
But he leave us at the border.
♪
Entonces, we have to cross alone.
And I was arrested by La Migra.
They put me in the jail and a man come and he take Gabriela.
She was holding me and crying, and he just pulled her away.
I can't get the sound of my baby calling for me
out of my head.
- Maria was arrested for illegal entry.
I'm filing an asylum petition on her behalf.
But the way things are going, it could be months
if not years before everything's adjudicated.
Until then, she's incarcerated here.
- Come.
Gabriela, this way.
- Please, please.
♪
- Mami, soy yo. - Mi niña.
Mi bebe.
- Si, Mami.
- Okay, time to shut it down.
- No, turn the camera away, ma'am,
and terminate the call immediately.
- Adios, mi niña.
- Mami, no.
No, Mami.
- It's okay. It's okay.
♪
So now this--this poor kid is-- is sleeping on a cot
in our overnight room in the squad
while one of our detectives, Carisi, babysits her.
I mean, the feds are picking her up tomorrow.
- That's rough.
What, she's
- Yeah. - Wow.
I--I don't know how you guys do what you do.
- You're amazing.
- Thank you.
Sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
- No, that's that kind of empathy.
It's special.
- Well, you weren't so bad yourself with, uh,
Jesse the other night.
- I love kids.
I almost did my residency in pediatrics,
but, uh--
- Honestly I was, uh, 200k deep in student loan debt
and I was damn good in the OR, so I went for the money.
- Hmm.
- Ah.
I remember you once liked Chablis.
Domaine Francois Marchand, 2015, Grand Cru.
Thanks.
Lovely.
- Keep it chilled for you. - Thank you.
To second chances?
Or third, if we're keeping score.
What?
- Al, I'm pregnant.
Fourth of July, the one night we, um...
♪
Wow.
♪
Well, you know, whatever you decide.
I could--you know, I could go with you to the procedure
and take care of all that if that's what you wanted to do.
♪
- Eh, played 19 games of checkers and I, uh--
I learned to read "Green Eggs and Ham" in Spanish.
- No me gusto los huevos verde.
- Ni el jamón, my friend.
Rollins is on kid duty right now.
- I'm looking for Lieutenant Benson.
- Jeff Phelps, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
I'm here to pick up Gabriela Sosa.
- Liv.
This is Mr. Phelps.
He's a refugee officer from ORR.
- Lieutenant Benson.
I'm--I take it you have some paperwork.
Fin.
- She'll be housed at Fort Stirling.
- Oh, so she'll be at an Army base behind razor wire.
- No, Lieutenant.
She'll be in a dorm-like setting with other minors.
It's almost like summer camp.
- Summer camp.
Except she doesn't go home to her family.
- I don't make the rules, Lieutenant.
- Gabriela, um, this is Officer Phelps.
And I'm so sorry, but he--he has to take you--
- No. - It's going to be okay, dear.
- Please, please. Don't take me again.
- What--why don't we-- wait, what?
What do you mean by, "Again?"
- He was the man who take me away from my mother.
- I was at the border when Maria Sosa was processed.
I took custody of Gabriela and escorted her
and several other children to the foster agency
here in the city.
- So you're the one that separated her from her mother?
- That was the policy, detective.
I'm sure you're aware of that.
- Okay.
Fin, Carisi, arrest Officer Phelps.
- And place him in a holding cell.
- Is this some kind of sick joke?
- You're being charged with kidnapping
in the second degree.
- You abducted a minor and transported her
against her will to New York City.
That's a class B felony in this state.
- You're gonna be sorry about this, Lieutenant.
Very sorry.
- Give him his phone call and a bologna sandwich.
.
- NYPD Special Victims Unit has arrested an agent
in the Office of Refugee Resettlement for the kidnapping
of a nine-year-old girl named Gabriela Sosa who's being
evaluated now by Children Services.
- Where did this kidnapping occur, Lieutenant?
- Officer Phelps initiated the abduction in Texas
and the minor was transported here into Manhattan.
- How do you expect the federal government to react to this?
- That's not my concern.
A serious felony was committed here.
- Does this really affect the safety of the everyday
New Yorker, Lieutenant?
- Well, as a result of this abduction,
uh, Gabriela Sosa--a nine-year-old child--
found herself in the arms of a child sex trafficker.
- She's doing as well as can be expected.
But she was deeply traumatized, like many of the children.
So I have no doubt that...
That there will be long-term, uh, serious emotional
and psychological consequences for her.
Thank you so much. That's all for now.
- Lieutenant, lieutenant!
- That's right.
- Who was just doing his job.
- And I was just doing my job.
- And what's your next move now, Olivia?
Do you actually think this is gonna stick?
- Come on, Peter. I'm not that naive.
- I have every media outlet in the city
putting this story out there.
I was doing it to make a point.
- I don't prosecute cases to make points.
- Well then I will find someone who will.
Weren't you the one that told me that the only wars
worth fighting for are the ones you can't win?
- I'm Kim Caldwell, U.S. Department of Justice.
This is a federal writ of habeas corpus
demanding the release of ORR officer Jeff Phelps.
♪
See you in court at 4:00 p.m., Lieutenant.
♪
Let me show you what you're fighting for.
♪
Hello, Gabriela. - Hi, Miss Olivia.
♪
- Honey, this is my friend Peter.
- Hi, Mr. Peter.
I make a picture of my house in Guatemala.
♪
- It's beautiful.
- Yes, it is.
- Thank you.
♪
- There are 3,000 more Gabrielas.
If you have to walk away from this,
I understand, but...
♪
I can't.
♪
- Kidnapping is defined as forcibly depriving
a person of her freedom by holding her against her will.
It is beyond dispute the Refugee Officer Phelps
did precisely that to Gabriela Sosa.
- As the government does to millions of prisoners
every day. - Gabriela was not a prisoner.
She's a nine-year-old child who did nothing wrong.
- Except enter this country illegally with her mother.
- Do you concede that fact, Mr. Stone?
- For the purpose of this argument, I would.
But that doesn't give the government the right
to forcibly separate her from her parents.
- Flores v. Reno says we can't keep them together.
- No, it says we can't incarcerate them together.
And the state of New York criminalizes transporting
that child here against her will.
- These acts were done under the color of federal law.
- Not law, Your Honor.
But a DOJ policy directive known as Zero Tolerance.
- Either way, it's clear the petitioner was acting
in good faith.
- That doesn't relieve him of his criminal liability
for the ongoing abduction of this girl here in New York.
- I would remind Mr. Stone of the supremacy clause
in article six of the Constitution.
- Oh, my God.
- Simply stated, Your Honor, federal law trumps state law.
- Okay, Your Honor, what are we doing here?
We're talking about a nine-year-old child.
- You are out of order, Lieutenant Benson.
- The government ripped this little girl
out of her mother's arms.
Somebody somewhere needs to stop this.
- Liv, Liv.
♪
- Your Honor. - Thank you.
- It's all right. It's all right.
- Why don't you, uh, have a seat
while I order us some pizza for dinner?
- Yeah, her name is Jesse. She's three years old.
- Yeah, I do.
- Well, um, yeah, okay.
- Do you want the baby to be a girl or a boy?
- I'm not sure.
- When I see my mother, I tell her that I want
to have a little brother.
♪
- I have been asked to rule on the legality of the arrest
of a federal officer by state law enforcement,
not to hold forth on the wisdom of our country's
immigration policy.
And while the separation of Gabriela Sosa and her mother
is disturbing and ill advised, it's tangential to the issue
raised by this writ.
I hold that federal immigration policy overrides any claim
by the state that a kidnapping has been committed.
The detention of Officer Phelps is therefore illegal.
He should be released from custody forthwith.
♪
- At least we tried.
- Yeah, we lost a battle. Maybe...
Maybe we'll win the war.
♪
- Muy bueno.
Will I be sleeping here tonight?
- I really don't know, Gabriela.
- No. No!
No. - Gabriela--
- I want to stay here. - I know.
- I know, sweetie, but I'm--
I'm afraid that you have to go with Officer Phelps.
- I don't want to.
- I know.
- We don't have a choice, honey.
- Please, Miss Olivia.
- Gabriela, listen to me. Listen to me.
Now's the time when you need to be strong.
Right? Fuerte.
You're going to see your mother again.
- I don't know the answer to that right now.
I wish I did.
But we are gonna do everything that we can to help you.
Everything. Do you understand that?
- Si.
- Okay. - Just don't forget me.
- Oh, we won't.
- It's time.
- Okay, just remember, Gabriela.
Fuerte. Fuerte.
Fuerte, honey.
♪
.
- So, uh, how's Special Victims working out?
It's, uh, not what I expected.
- You should, uh--you should meet this Lieutenant.
- Ah, I always had you figured for a lifer in homicide.
Yeah, maybe.
- You know me. All work and no play.
- So, let's cut to the chase.
You didn't come all this way for a catch up.
- Yeah, you're right.
I need your help.
Cops I'm working with, they liberated an undocumented
nine-year-old from a sex trafficker.
We're trying to reunite her with her mother.
- Texas.
In federal detention for illegal entry.
- It's out of my jurisdiction, don't you think?
- Come on, Mark.
You have more connections inside the Beltway
than Potomac Edison.
- This immigration stuff is getting tricky these days
to say the least.
- We're not making policy here.
It's one child, one parent.
- And you really think this is gonna make a difference?
- You know, when I was a kid, my grandfather had a cottage
in the Dunes in Rhode Island.
We would get up early and we'd walk the beaches together.
One morning there was thousands of sea turtle hatchlings
crawling towards the surf.
And we could see that the tide was going out,
and most of them weren't going to make it.
And I said, "Grandpa, these baby turtles are going to die."
And he picked up a hatchling and he walked it to the water.
♪
"This one won't.
"And this one won't.
And this one won't."
♪
- This mother's grounds for asylum, they're solid?
♪
- 50/50.
♪
- I'll see what I can do.
No promises.
♪
- Hey, anybody wanna get a beer?
- Oh, man.
I promised Ken and Alejandro I'd babysit tonight.
Non
Besides, after this Gabriela thing,
I'd need something a lot stiffer than a beer.
- That's why anybody wants to come to this country
to work for the American Dream, they should be allowed
to do that.
I mean, political asylum, that's okay.
But just because Maria's neighbor got shot by a gang?
That doesn't qualify.
- I don't know, Fin.
What that woman had to go through to get to the border,
she must have been terrorized.
- And who takes care of them once they get here?
I mean, separating kids from their parents, that's barbaric.
But there's still a problem.
- I think immigrants can take care of themselves.
My great grandfather came to this country from Torino
when he was 12 years old.
- And I bet you he didn't have public housing,
food stamps, and Medicaid.
- Most of these people, they get jobs.
And they're jobs that Americans don't want.
- "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free."
- Yeah, and that's a great poem,
but it's all garbage.
My people came here 300 years ago in chains,
and I still can't breathe free.
♪
- Amanda. - Yeah.
Um, your office told me where to find you.
- Well, they're not supposed to, but--
- I pulled rank.
- Oh.
Is everything okay?
- Yeah, I don't--I don't wanna make a big thing.
Um...
♪
I'm having this baby.
I don't need anything from you.
♪
- Hi, we're here to see Gabriela Sosa.
- She's one of the children who's being detained here.
- I'm sorry, ma'am.
Those types of visits are not authorized.
- Get your CO down here right now.
- I'm sorry, sir.
I'm not authorized to do that.
- Listen, son.
I didn't hunt through the mountains of Quang Tri
for three years to have a babyfaced MP
tell me what's authorized. Am I clear?
Uh-- - Soldier!
- Yes, sir.
- That was fun.
♪
- I can't believe what I'm seeing.
♪
Step forward.
♪
Mi niña.
Mi amor. - Mami.
♪
Mami.
- Oh!
- Here you go. Thank you.
♪
- How in the world did you and Stone pull this off?
- The supervising judge in the 5th circuit
grew up in Chicago.
We trained at the same gym.
Peter threw together the asylum petition
and Judge Connors pushed it through.
♪
- Thank you.
♪
- Welcome to America.
♪
- This way, please.
♪
.
♪