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Make a determination on the people, they are terrific people but make a determination. before we make that determination, its very important we want to secure our border. >> president talking there about prioritizing criminal, people who are criminals who are in the country illegally. how does that reconcile with your clients case? >> well, it doesnt reconcile with our clients case and it doesnt reconcile with the administrations approach to enforcing, you know, immigration priorities in terms o...

Uncertainty. i think there are other ways that he could have handled it. but im not -- i think congress ought to step up and deal with this. i think the pattern of the last -- i dont know, you could say 30 or 40 years, has been for congress to abdicate its responsibility to the executive. i dont think its a bad thing we have to deal with it. but the uncertainty created in those peoples lives is really unfortunate and unnecessary. butti think the good news is i sense theres a real opportunity her...

Number one? number two, two things going on. the president does not actually want to do this. by all my reporting, hes extremely torn about it. he meant what he said earlier when he said this year this was not an enforcement priority, that he did worry about criminals and not people brought here on their own. the problem is the president campaigned on ending daca. so if you dont want to end daca, you probably should not promise people youre going to during an election season. thats where they fi...

Rejected. theres a misconception that daca primarily serves as a shield from deportation. this is misleading. daca grants work authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals who are not legally authorized to work. daca recipients whose average age is in their 20s were not an enforcement priority before and they certainly wont become a priority now. the priorities remain the same, criminals, security threats, and those who repeatedly violate our immigration laws. the main effect of todays announceme...

Daca grants offer authorization to nearly 800,000 individuals who are not legally authorized to work. daca recipients were not an enforcement priority before and they were not an enforcement priority now. the priorities remain the same. the main effect of todays announcement is that work permits and other government benefits are being gradually phased out. but rather than leave daca recipients in confusing limbo while the daca program was challenged by states, president obama is laying out a res...

Campuses that are acceptable, that have to be sort of holistic and not mechanical and put too much on the thumb that might score. >> tom, you have been in the justice department. what does it say to you when you look at charlies reporting that this is run out of the civil rights front office and not the other office he is talking about. >> it tells me a new sheriff in town. it should not surprise anyone that the civil rights division both were seeing under president trump has been one of the are...

Here and in some cases, know no other language. >> i dont know if senator collins had all the facts that were just articulated that, in fact, this individual had status, had left the country, perhaps without following the process torque get permission in advance. thats not unique to dreamers. thats true for any lawful per permanent resident. i dont think it represents any change in policy or the expressions that the president has made or secretary kelly about dreamers or daca participants not be...

Who chooses not pay your taxes, were going to ignore you. thats what obama said. thats what has changed now. weve gone back to normal enforcement. >> jesse: and normal enforcement is enforcing the law of the land, aly. if some one isnt paying taxes or some one is living in a trap house, or some one is just drinking and driving, moving violations to get caught up with some small beef like that, they have to face the sequences. thats not draconian, right? >> we are completely in support of smart l...

Date for months or years down the road and they will forget about you. jon: he says because of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the u.s. the fed deported just 70,000, from inside the interior of the u.s. fewer than 1%. the administration claims deportations are down because fewer people being apprehended at the border and a more refined enforcement priority but others attribute the decline to the 2012 obama decision to use prosecutorial discretion, blanket amnesty to any and all illegal immi...

This country why would it be stopped through the courts? >> well, thanks, thomas. and as you said, this is a deeply disappointing decision from the 5th circuit court of appeals which ignores decades of legal precedent and leaves millions of american families in limbo. it is something that the dissenting opinion was very clear in saying that the actions taken by president obama not only have legal precedent but theyre the quintessential use of discretion and whos an enforcement priority and who s...