despitite all the investigative reporting, not very much is being done to really disisrupt that netetwork narrator: central and eastern africa are the current hotspots of elephant poaching. africans are the trigger pullers and transporters of the ivory from the bush to urban centers, where it's prepared for shipment from ports like mombasa, dar es salaam, and zanzibar. asian criminal syndicates move the ivory through various transit points en route more often than not to china. alie: we see hiding of ivory under coffee, under avocados. these methods to conceal these products are very sophisticated. roberts: you might have a legal shipment in a giant shipping container that has 20 tons of capapacity, and that 20 tons o f capacity is filled with 18 tons of dried seaweed or stones or cashew nuts, a perfectly legal international commodity, but two tons of ivory smuggled in. alie: to undertake this type of transaction requires bribery, requires payining people off at each link of the chain. thornton: you can't have that kind of poaching and that amount of ivory moving outut of a country unless

practice and 500 folks were released into our community, but there was greater collaboration with the netetworks. we hope this isn't something that repeats itself. this has never happened. the only other time this happened was the week before elections, at the very end of october. it is hard not to see it as a political character. -- s hard to see that the amy: this as the backdrop, let's look at the death of two guatemalan children in three weeks. in u.s. custody. example of selelena alonzo,of -- selena gomez who on christmas eve, explain what you understand happened. yet, over the border with his dad. he was held by gord patrol -- there was jusust under r a week. how did he get sick and die? what is happening? you are in elel paso. he was i in new mexicoco. he died in a hospital. >> surure. the case of the eieight euro guatememalan boy who died d on riststmas evee was chilling to e because on christmas day when 200 migigrants s come all of them or familieies. all ofof them were fathers which open o or mothers with chiren.n. when they released those children off the bus, when they essentially k