mariam. in the car, the police question the trafficker about mariam. [all speaking hindi] narrator: the selling of young girls as brides is common in some states like punjab and haryana. a major factor is the extremely low sex ratio of females to males. young girls are brought here and solas child brides to the local men at bargain prices. the team have received new information on where mariam is being kept. but marriage in india is sacrosanct and snatching a girl from her marital home can have violent consequences. [all speaking hindi] narrator: startled and afraid, mariam emerges from the room. [all speaking hindi] [mariam sobbing] narror: after 20 days of separation, mother and daughter are finally reunited. [both sobbing] [all speaking hindi] narrator: the husbd of 14-year-old mariam is a 50-year-old man. mariam: [speaking hindi] narrator: if convied, the husband will face 10 years in prison for purchasing mariam. mariam will be taken to the child welfare committee for a hearing before sh

she was reunited with her daughter, mariam yasin.what the white house has continued to say is people like your mom need to be double checked to make sure they're not coming here to do harm. >> yes. why? she's been here. did she do harm to anyone? he's a resident. she lives here in tulsa, oklahoma. she doesn't need to be checked. >> reporter: her mother arrived from egypt where she had been visiting her 12 and 14-year-old daughters. >> it's sad. we're not happy at all. we're scared for the other one, my sisters and anyone that want to come here. we're trying to find safety. >> open those doors! open those doors! >> reporter: u.s. immigration officials in dallas detained 11 people this weekend, some for up to 24 hours, including this man's parents. he's a student at southern university. he join prod testers at the airport. he said his parents already had their visas. he was waiting in line. when they saw they were syrian, they took them to a private room. then a persons comes and lectures how if you're from these seven countries, you h

she was reunited with her daughter, mariam yasin.hat the white house has continued to say is people like your mom need to be double checked to make sure they're not coming here to do harm. >> yes. why? she's been here. did she do harm to anyone? she's a resident. she lives here in tulsa, oklahoma. she doesn't need to be checked. >> reporter: her mother arrived from egypt where she had been visiting her 12 and 14-year-old daughters. >> it's sad. we're not happy at all. we're scared for the other one, my sisters and anyone that want to come here. we're trying to find safety. >> open those doors! open those doors! >> reporter: u.s. immigration officials in dla people this weekend, some for up to 24 hours, including osama alolabi's parents. he's a student at southern methodist university and he joined protesters at the airport. he said his parents already had their visas. he was waiting in line. when they saw they were syrian, someone came and they took them to a private room. there were people from all nationalities over there. then a p

mariam masumi is an immigration attorney in northern virginia..mmunication between any of the agencies. i think that this order was just issued without any cooperation or collaboration and it's caused a lot of confusion on the part of so many agencies. without the knowledge and whether those people are back there, we can't help. >> brangham: even members of congress said they were in the dark. representative don beyer, a virginia democrat, was at dulles trying to find out if people being detained had access to lawyers, as a federal judge had ordered. beyer said he couldn't even find out how many people were being held. so you, as a member of congress, cannot get an answer to how many people our government is holding here? >> that's exactly correct right now. this notion of cooperation between the executive branch and the legislative branch has totally broken down. >> brangham: and it wasn't just democrats. congresswoman barbara comstock is a republican who's long advocated for stricter vetting of immigrants. but she said this move was too broad an