"Seeking asylum is legal. Turning back asylum seekers is illegal, dangerous, & oftentimes sends them back to their deaths. Seeking asylum is a right under US and international law.”

“Cuando yo llegué a la frontera con mi hija me recibieron de forma inhumana,” dijo Daniel Paz, un miembro de ASAP. Daniel le pidió al gobierno que tratara a los solicitantes de asilo con respeto y dignidad.

Leidy Perez-Davis, asesora politica de ASAP, ayuda a explicar las diferencias entre solicitar refugio y solictiar asilo.

“If those children were able to come in with their parents, they could be released with their parents and not placed in government custody,” said Conchita Cruz.

“This legislation recognizes the pain and trauma families like ours have been through" said ASAP member, Leticia Peren, about the reintroduction of the Families Belong Together Act.

ASAP and a coalition of immigration advocacy organizations asked a Maryland federal judge to void Trump-era rules that tightened restrictions on work permits for asylum-seekers.

ASAP member Daniel Paz shared photos of a log his daughter kept after they were separated at the border. She tried to write down the number of days since she had seen her father. She was 7.

Three years after the "zero tolerance" policy one father, an ASAP member, tells CBS about his family's experience as lawyers are still searching for parents of more than 500 children.