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People and further extend protection for deferral of deportation for their parents. >> so cynthia, take us to january 20, 2021. what does that process actually look like? >> well, first, we have to get through the supreme court ruling and whats interesting about -- whats happening there is that they can rule on a very narrow grounds. because the trump administration is making the argument that the supreme court is not even allowed to decide if they can strike daca. theyre saying as a matter of l...

Angry democratic voters and immigration advocates to campaign even more aggressively against the president. if the court prevents mr. trump from ending daca, that could fire up his base of voters. how do you see that playing out? do you think thats a likely outcome? >> oh, sure. certainly. i think the supreme court will invalidate daca and actually give donald trump discretion for what direction he wants to go in and politically, ultimately voters make their decision based on the contrast betwee...

Necessarily are going to have an up or down on daca by the time theres the next president. well have an up and down on marburger versus madison, and the trump justice department is at battle with this. >> we have heard a number of civil rights groups calling on congress, how likely is that, chris? >> well, i think its really not likely during this administration. but i think whats important to understand with daca we dont need the supreme court to make a decision on this. earlier this month the ...

Know, some time after july 4th. >> so, glen, he previously called off a round of ice raids this week. what is his strategy here? >> you know, there really is no strategy. there is no coherent policy that this administration has to deal with immigrants and with the crisis that were seeing presently. the only way you can sum up, i think, the administrations approach to immigration is they are anti-immigrant. whether it is revoking the daca status, deferred action for childhood arrivals, so-called ...

>> well what it means is that the majority of the cases the supreme court looks at arent generally that ideological. we obviously focus on big ones like the census decision or gerrymandering. but the other ones i think dont fall that cleanly but with daca theres a broader issue about the limits of presidential authority. and as we saw last year this supreme court gave president trump the authority to implement his muslim ban. given his authority over national security. what will be interesting t...

They have ended the 2019 term and data reveals unusual lineups. the "new york times" is reporting that justice kavanaugh voted with gorsuch 53% of the time, though both men were appointed by mr. trump. that was barely ahead of the rate at which he voted with kagan and breyer. this could come into play next session when the supreme court will decide the fate of daca protections for nearly 800,000 people. joining me now is former assistant to president obama chris lu, and msnbc political contribut...

Executive order im not going to enforce that. its very similar to administrations saying we wont enforce federal marijuana policy for instance. but in this case it has a very human impact. barack obama said were not going to deport these dreamers. if the supreme court says obamas executive order is essentially is invalidated then donald trump whats your vision of this country? are you going to deport the dreamers or not and that will create contrast for voters going into next november. >> speaki...

You look under president obama, he had more deportations than president trump has. you had a lot of the photos surfacing from his time and his administration of children in cages. but, president trump is treated differential b differene immediately and the left. >> when you hear democrats different story around election time were going to promise this and promise that were going to fix immigration. when it comes down to it its always tomorrow. its always gained to gain votes towards the hispanic...

José is going to lead off the questioning in this round. >> thank you very much. senator harris, last month more than 130,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border. many of them are being detained, including small children in private detention centers in florida and throughout our country. most of the candidates on this stage say the conditions of these facilities are abhorrent. on january 20th, 2021, if you are president, what specifically would you do with the thousands of people w...

>> passing a family bill of rights that includes a national paid leave plan, universal pre-k, affordable day care and making sure that women and families can thrive in the workplace no matter who they are. >> i like that. i had it. so passing a middle class working families tax cut. daca, guns. >> okay. >> im giving you credit for the first thing you said, the tax cut. senator sanders, the first thing. >> the premise that theres only one or two issues out there. >> im not saying there is one or ...