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Come here to be with them. jeff sessions wrote attorney general loretta lynch a letter last year asking why she wasnt prosecuting parents already. and now under this new president, jeff sessions is the attorney general, himself, so he doesnt need to write those letters anymore. joining us now, franco, a white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. he helped connect the dots about jeff sessions and his role here. thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me on....

And now under this new president, jeff sessions is the attorney general, himself, so he doesnt need to write those letters anymore. joining us now, franco ordonez, a white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. he helped connect the dots about jeff sessions and his role here. thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me on. >> so were told tonight to expect these draft memos will be finalized tomorrow. one of the sort of strange things about this administratio...

Attorney general, himself, so he doesnt need to write those letters anymore. joining us now, franco, a white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. he helped connect the dots about jeff sessions and his role here. thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me on. >> so were told tonight to expect these draft memos will be finalized tomorrow. one of the sort of strange things about this administration. we often get draft polics that are more or less disavowed by...

This is a local man he signed orders concerns immigrants who are already here who may have been here almost their entire lives. over the weekend, new draft memos signed by the new secretary of homeland security started circulating in the press. what you can glimpse in those memos is the vast range of people they say are a priority of deportation and the speed at which they intend to carry out the mass deportation. 5,000 more border patrol agents. more guidelines making more

Mem knows moe moes is the vast of people they say are a priority of deportation and the speed at which they intend to carry out the mass dedeportatio. 5,000 more border patrol agents. more guidelines making more people a target for expedited removal. parents to try to arrange to have their children brought to them here prosecuting the parents. immigrant advocates describing these draft memos as "dra "dramatically expanding the scope of enforcement operations." if ittheres been some mistsry w the...

Parents to try to arrange to have their children brought to them here prosecuting the parents. immigrant advocates describing these draft memos as "dramatically expanding the scope of enforcement operations." if theres been some mistsry how the administration would carry out the policies, theres not so much mystery about the origins of these policies, themselves. they come from a very specific place. senator jeff sessions of alabama wrote the presidents immigration plan. the plan he campaigned o...

People a target for expedited removal. parents to try to arrange to have their children brought to them here prosecuting the parents. immigrant advocates describing these draft memos as "dramatically expanding the scope of enforcement operations." if theres been some mystery how the administration would carry out the policies, theres not so much mystery about the origins of these policies, themselves. they come from a very specific place. senator jeff sessions of alabama wrote the presidents imm...

"some of these folks are here to learn how to assist those who are undocumented." but also, "a significant number of folks are here because they themselves are undocumented and they are trying to figure out a way to protectthemselves." this is a local man, a citizen telling the local paper, "we are all basically very afraid." and so, yeah, people are coming out to help their neighbors, but theyre also teaching themselves deportation defense to the extent that there can be defense. teaching thems...

>> the trump administration is preparing to roll out its new immigration order this week, we are getting a hint of what could come via draft memos. these memos are not final and were told the white house objects some of the language in this many. lets talk about these drafts. as they stand the drafts call for potentially big changes, including ending the release of people captured at the borders while they await hearings, speeding up the removal proceedings and thousands more enforcement agents....

Border agents to help with this. they also call for deputizing, local law enforcement, expediting undocumented immigrants with a focus on those with criminal records and penalizing parn penalizing parents who pay smugglers to bring their children into the country. again, they are draft memos. they are not etched in stone. they are described as suggestions. the white house being very clear they are still discussing all of this. at the same time, it is a window into what we might see once the exec...