with me now, chris cabrera. good evening, chris. how do we know, one, whether the kids coming in aren't already gang members and, two, that they are recruiting for new gangs members? >> yes, judge. how are you this evening? we do know that they are coming in as gang members. we do interview them and a lot of times they are proud of what they are doing and proud of what they are in their gang ties and usually the gang tattoos are a dead give away. they are very flash she and gaudy on their face and neck and when they are questioned they will admit that they are part of an ms-13 gang. >> chris, let me ask you this. is there any way to categorize or create or document some kind of file that identifies the name of an individual and the location of tattoos? i know when i was a d.a., i had a whole intel center where someone said that the person who raped me had a tattoo. >> we do have gang units that are released into the united states and even though they are documented as a gang member in their file, at the end of the day we are still r

let's get to ana cabrera in denver with the latest for us. what do we know? well, good morning, chris. it really has been an intense past 24 hours from that detain of jose antonio vargas to the emotionally charged protests that are just breaking out now all over the country. it seems this immigration crisis at the boarder is nearing a tipping point as americans wait for lawmakers to agree on a solution. a bold statement in the immigration battle at the border. one of the nation's most famous and outspoken undocumented immigrants detained for several hours in texas on tuesday. >> i am an illegal alien. >> reporter: jose antonio vargas, pulitzer prize winning journalist, was trying to fly to los angeles about two weeks undocumented that traces his decision to speak out about his status aired on cnn. his capture, then release, comes as calls for action on broader immigration crisis are growing louder. >> they are not born here. >> they have to go back to mexico. >> reporter: and it's not just at the border. protests have spread across the country. yesterday in arizona passionate proteste