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Stands for the deferred action for childhood arrivals, allows unauthorized immigrants brought in as children to work and study legally. today nearly 800,000 are daca recipients, that mean 800,000 would be directly impacted if the program were to end. the removal could have a direct impact on the aftermath of hurricane harvey. why? because houston has the third largest unauthorized immigrant population in the country. translating to 575,000 people according to pugh research. of that number, nearl...

Roll back to some extent the daca program, you know how washington works. what kind of fight do you see setting up? >> well, i think, unfortunately, as in all things immigration related, you run the likelihood of having other issues brought to the fore. and for example, i heard the president quoted the idea of a dream act, which would put the daca program into statute, being tied to funding for a border wall. and thereby using the young people as trade bait. that would be the wrong way to approa...

Stay in the country. during the campaign, the president referred to deferred action for childhood arrivals as illegally amnesty. shortly after the inauguration he appeared today soften. heres what vice president mike pence had to say yesterday. >> president trump has said all along hes giving careful consideration to that issue and that when he makes his decision hell make it as he likes to say with big heart. and i know that he will. >> joining me now janet napolitano former homeland security s...

We will immediately terminate president obamas two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants. >> were going to deal with daca with heart. its a very difficult thing for me. because i love these kids. i love kids. i have kids. >> president trump wavering on his position about the continuation of daca, changing his substance from the campaign trail to the oval office. now it seems he may have made u...

I dont think theres anybody questioning the climate is changing. for this administration to say dont think about that when you spend huge amounts of federal dollars for infrastructure is not reasonable. lets allow epa to continue to work with communities on climate resilience instead of shutting the office down and taking the information off the web. lets deal with reality as we see it today. this is a reality of deregulation and this is a reality of a changing climate. we need to face proper re...

Years old but the average person in the program came to the united states when they were six years old. they didnt know any better. from an em pathetic point of view, why do this now? these are people who are contributing to society, we educated them. we took care of them. now they are working. they are providing tax dollars in your own state, if the people who are part of the daca program were kicked out of the country, kansas would lose something like 300 million bucks in gdp. >> well, theres ...

Immigrants brought here where they are children. 800,000 people could face deportation and guess what, tens of thousands of them live right in the middle of the harvey disaster zone. well talk to chris cobach, key adviser to donald trump on immigration saying the president should end daca now. >> new jobs report out today, 156,000 added in the month of july and unemployment did tick up a bit. well break down the numbers here live on msnbc. mike and i are both veterans, both served in the navy. i...

Decisions. now the president is making these decisions. its amazing to me the about face that congressional republicans have taken here. they were totally opposed -- >> the president of their party its okay it seems. as long as theyre coinciding -- >> i think were pretty consistent in saying that president obama in creating this program out of whole cloth was unconstitutional and is unconstitutional -- >> but undoing that by executive decision is okay? >> depends on who you talk to. >> you know ...

Joining the table now is marina hinojosa, did i do that right? one of these days ill get it. anchor and executive producer. im terrible at reading names off the prompter. okay, so dreamers. paul ryan today came out and said that he doesnt think the president should end this. that it should be left to the legislature. take a listen. >> theres a lot in the news right now that the president might be looking at pulling back daca. the dreamers act. >> yeah, i mean, i dont think he should do that. i b...

Indicated yet. the supreme court -- >> dapa -- >> daca has not, 100 clear on that. >> right. but dapa was an extension of daca -- >> i hear your argument but lets be clear our viewers dont think this has been adjudicated. >> okay, the fifth circuit, which is the court of appeals has ruled on the exact same legal issue. youre right the supreme court has not because they split 4-4. if it goes to the court -- >> you dont need how near gorsuch is to vote? >> we dont know, you never want to predict a...