For more on the reversal from the White House, CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez visited a shelter that helps immigrants released from detention centers.

They know it's a risky gamble, crossing illegally into the United States is dangerous. What these families never expected is what happened next.

MAGDA UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT "First, they took me to the jail. I was there for a few hours, then I was transferred to another place. There they told me that I must stay in one area with my four-year-old, but my boy had to go to another area and my older girl as well."

Children were taken away from their mothers.

NITZA SOLEDAD PEREZ MCALLEN, TEXAS "Did you ever think that was possible, authorities separating you from your children?"

MAGDA UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT "All the women there, we were in terror, because many of them had seen their children taken away from them. There was one kid there that had not seen her mother in five days."

Magda asked us not to reveal her last name. Hoping to escape gang extortion, this Guatemalan mother came into the U.S with her three children ages: 16, 13 and four. She feared losing her children if she stayed.

Twenty-three hundred children have already been forcibly taken from their parents since the implementation of this zero tolerance policy over the past two months.

The dramatic turn of events was well-received within the immigrant community and by those who help them.

NORMA PIMENTEL DIRECTOR, CATHOLIC CHARITIES, RIO GRANDE VALLEY "It's good, but I don't think it's the only answer that we need. We need to help these families find a solution, a humane solution, detention is not an answer, separation of families is not an answer, we must find ways that these families are safe and protected and help stabilize this country so these families don't have to be exposed to so much hardship."

Magda was happy when she heard the news.

MAGDA UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT "These are good news for the Hispanic community, because no one, has the right to separate children from their parents, seeing so many kids crying and asking for their moms, was simply unfair."

Magda and her children will head to Virginia, where a civil court will process her case. She wears an ankle bracelet to remind her of her uncertainty. But at least her children and especially the youngest one Sofia will have their mother to lead the way. NSP, CGTN, McAllen, Texas.