barbara hines, former director of the immigration clinic at the university of texas law school.it in a lawsuit challenging detention of women and children as a method of deterrence to mass migration was cited by the federal judge in his order to halt the practice. explain that lawsuit barbara. barbara: it was filed by immigration clinic and a private law firm to challenge the practice of holding mothers and children to send a deterrent message to other families, arguing that these mother and children were national security risks, picking the most vulnerable group of immigrants coming to the united states, really as violence-seekers, women and children fleeing the most horrific violence, and saying that group had to be locked up in private prisons that were run on the profit motive. juan: and what about this issue of some people saying they are not asylum-seekers, but just undocumented immigrants. barbara: that is not true in our experience. the vast majority of the women and children that have been held at the detention facilities that have been ramped up since june are asylum-s