we are very miserable. >> zhou and his first daughter zhou qing, help prepare the birthday meal. he is separated from his wife, and alone provides for his 10-year-old. zhou also has a second daughter, one he has not seen since she was seized by local officials eight years ago, and likely sold into adoption abroad. in 2003, when zhou was away working, family planning officials barged into the house where his mother was tending to the 3-month-old child. >> "they asked my mother for money as a fine for the birth of our second child. but my mother had no money, and my wife and i were out working. they asked my mother where this child came from. my mother was very afraid, so she dared not to admit the baby was ours. she told them that the baby was someone else's and that she was just looking after her for the moment. but they took the child away." when zhou learned what had happened, he pressed the local government for the return of his daughter. "i immediately reported it to both the county and municipal governments, but the officials there protected each other, saying: now that your

heidi zhou-castro will be with us from texas in studio. we get reaction from a mother who faces deportation, and later funding for the department of homeland security. libby casey joins us about the feud between the white house and the hill and whether the public's hands are strengthened. it's "inside story". >>> coming out of the holiday £ millions of people potentially covered by the president's executive access on immigration got a nasty surprise. federal judge ruled in texas, that it was not in the president's power to make millions of people living and worked in country a lower priority for deportation. in a 126 page ruling. the states are concern the about security and their own resources drained by the territories. and it has and will lead to domestic security issues affecting citizenry. the influx is causing the states to experience law enforce. problems. the result is that many bear the brunt of illegal immigration, this examines the issue relating to immigration, which necessarily involves questions of federalism, separation of p

heidi zhou-castro is in texas. >> good evening. brownsville is on the border. this is the border and behind it is mexico. texas is leading a group of 26 states that you mentioned. in a claim that obama exceeded constitutional authority, and that border states will suffer increased price of illegal crossings due to president's actions. bill scans the horizon. here 50 miles north. >> the last three months i had 15 of them within a mile of the house. i had five of them trying to break the front door down. calvin showed them his kun and called border patrol. he saw more migrants since president obama announced 4.9 million undocumented immigrants could qualify for relief and work permits. calvin calls it amnesty. this is the land of milk and honey. they come over. the minute they across the boarder, they are on easy street. >> rhyl lives in a mobile home and works six days a week waiting tables and playing music at a nightclub. he crosses the border and lives with his family near dallas. two of his children are citizens. the longer we stay we have a place to live. >

heidi zhou-castro was in the courtroom. >> eddy ray ralph was in the court. with a shaved head and heavier is pleading not guilty by reason of ipp sanity. >> he took their lives. . >> the crime happened at a texas gun range. kyle and little field invited ralph to shoot targets. it was the first time they met rous. chris was in the driver's seat and he text chad littlefield. he had been released from a hospital, was treated for six rounds. his mother begged and pleaded for him to be talked to. per cent per cent the state said the mourning of the killing routh used marijuana. she scott kyle and littlefield using two guns, kyle's weapon was found next to his body spent. >> he shot all the bullets out of his gun at the time that he was shot. the state says routh took kyle's truck and gun. ate at a taco bell drove to his sister's home, and he confessed. kyle and chad littlefiedl leave behind grieving families. jurors heard testimony of littlefield's mother and kyle's widow, two widows who say justice must come in the form of a guilty verdict. >> young athletes lea

heidi zhou-castro is along the border and spoke with disappointed people. >> that's right. this was not the news. that undocumented immigrants hoped to here. state leaders in texas are rejoicing. texas let of 26 states claiming that the president overstepped the boundaries and the states would suffer of the consequences. a federal judge inside the courtroom agreed issuing a temporary injugez. -- injunction, this was devastating news. 36-year-old doris clutches an american flag in front of a courthouse where a federal junk ruled now is not the time for her to step out of the shadows. >> i waited for the kids to finish breakfast. i read it and started crying. >> this is your life. >> it is. i thought it was - i was going to do something. and i read this and it was heart-breaking. >> she said her mother sent for her to come from the u.s. in mexico. she crossed the rio grande following strangers, holding her 4-year-old sister. >> did you have any idea doing so that said you would be breaking the law. >> no you do what your parents tell you. >> reporter: now she is married reque

heidi zhou castro has a closer look. >> reporter: brownsville is right on the border that's the borderence. behind it is mexico and this community was ground zero for the immigration crisis that pored across this border into the united states this past year. the flow has significantly slowed but there's fear that illegal crossings will pick up again, due to the president's actions. bill calvin scans the horizon, watching for undocumented immigrants approaching his farmhouse, here 50 miles north of the texas, mexico border. >> the last three months i have had 15 of them within a mile of the house. i had five of them try to break the front door down. >> reporter: calvin says he has seen more migrants since president obama announced that some 4.9 million undocumented immigrants would qualify the ability to stay now a suit states that border states will suffer the cost of more illegal crossings, and the president exceeded his presidential authority. a judge will decide whether to block the action. >> this is the land of milk and honey over here. they come over because the minute they cross

. >> heidi zhou castro for us in texas. >> tonight on "real money" ali velshi is asking an uncomfortable question. what is the value of a life? that sounds pretty provocative right? but when tragedy hits there are people whose job it is to put a monetary value on every life lost. ali is here now with more. >> tony, it is an uncomfortable question. i'm talking with kevin feinberg, he answers these questions all the time. general motors has retained him to compensate families of car crashes. massachusetts brought him in to help with victims of the boston marathon bombing. he was the master of the 9/11 compensation fund. in the case of 9/11, the families of victims received an average of $721 million. but that is an average. families of victims with low salaries got as little as $250,000. while families of highly-paid victims got $1.7 million. in the case of marathon bombing people who lost two limbs got $2.2 million. those who lost one limb, got $1 million less. we'll look at how these calculations are made. listen to what he tells me. >> one, what would the victim have earned over a lifet