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They continued to rally and march and organize even after ed gonzalez was elected. every week people would march to the city council and jail to put pressure on the new sheriff to get rid of 287g and today he kept his promise. today sheriff gonzalez in harris county announced he would scrap that program. >> i decided to opt out of the voluntary 287g, the department will no longer be serving as front line immigration officers as theyve been deputized to do under this program. >> the new sheriff r...

Interestingly that didnt stop the local activists. they continued to rally and march and organize even after ed gonzalez was elected. every week people would march to the city council and jail to put pressure on the new sheriff to get rid of 287g and today he kept his promise. today sheriff gonzalez in harris county announced he would scrap that program. >> i decided to opt out of the voluntary 287g, the department will no longer be serving as front line immigration officers as theyve been deput...

Marched from the convention center to the harris county jail. they had signs reading "time is running outend to 87 jg" also "tell ron hickman that 287g tears families apart." ron hick mapp was the sheriff of harris county, houston, its 4.5 million people. were talking about montana earlier in the show. harris county alone has four times the population of all of montana. the decision facing sheriff hickman last june with the protests in the streets was whether his department would renew or end an...

Instance, they say that dreamers are off limits right now. the fact is that right here this san antonio, my hometown, just a couple days ago, there was a dreamer that was rounded up. so the way i read this is its a significant change. its an unleash the hounds type of executive order that is basically going to give license to folks out there in local communities, ice agents who want to be aggressive to go ahead and be aggressive. >> it does seem like a lot is left up to interpretation when it co...

>> bill: let me move to topic two. rex tillerson will be in mexico city today. so will secretary kelly. i was listening to you make the case last night with orielly and you were essentially saying its not that complicated. enforce the laws that have not been enforced for, i dont know, would you argue eight years? >> look. most of what theyre doing is reinstituting programs that are already in place. the bush administration by spending a lot of money ended catch and release, that is to say we cat...

Said most do not want that kind of responsibility. they want to focus on hard-core criminals. so you are going to have a lot of local communities who say i dont want to participate in 27 dont want to participate in 287g. we want to use the resources more wisely. >> president trump then candidate trump, he campaigned on making these changes. none of this really should come as a surprise to anybody, and he did win the election partly based on his promise to deport many people who are in this count...

>> now, those new dhs guidelines include prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens, hiring 10,000 new ice agents and 5,000 border patrol agents expanding the 287g program which allows local police to act as immigration agents, building that new border wall and ending the catch and release policy thats been in place for the last years, this is nothing more than a plan for mass deportations. senate majority chuck schumer issued, no matter how much they denied it, they are setting mass deportatio...

>> new directives from dhs label undocumented immigrants. the detention of those caught until their court hearings ending so-called catch and release. the immediate deportation for those in the u.s. under two years. also sending refuges from central america to mexico. and prosecuting or removing guardians found to be smuggling their children into the u.s. dhs says it will add 5,000 border patrol agents and planning to add 10,000 more i.c.a. agents while ramping up the 287 gg program to round u...

Accused mexico of sending criminals and "rapists" to the united states. his disparaging view of unauthorized immigrants in this country. last month he signed executive orders detailing his plans for immigration and border security. today the guidelines are "prioritize removable aliens who otherwise pose a risk to national security." that gives immigration offices s authority to decide who should be arrested. it also expands the 287-g program. its a controversial program that had been discontinue...

>> theres widespread fear this morning that president trump has deployed the deportation forces. remember that? labeled undocumented immigrants charged with a crime, just charged, and the detention of those caught until their court hearings, ending so-called catch and release. emmedia deportation for those in the u.s. under two years, and also sending refugees from central america to mexico, and prosecuting or removing guardians found to be smuggling their children into the u.s. dhs also says it...