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Hearing arguments on whether the third iteration of the presidents travel ban is unconstitutional. separately, a third federal judge issue aed a setback for the administrations efforts to end the daca program ordering the government to continue processing applications by dreamers and resume accepting new ones, and giving the government 90 days to offer better reasons for abolishing the program. for more on the two major policy battles i bring in nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete...

No. it was a practicality. the other side of the argument is this -- youre right. but i was arguing that because hes on the right. youre on the left. there are two sides to the argument. you dont have a deadline on friday for daca. as long as they abide by the federal court decision out of california and keep processing applications for extension, the dreamers are okay or held in a advance. you have a real deadline in march not friday, you can do this budget resolution and do daca after. that is...

Individuals. >> thats to continue processing applications. you get expirations that is creates anxiety uncertainty. >> theres time to do what the election is about. do what we campaigned on. theres a reason the american people put republicans in the control of the house and made president trump the president of the country. theres a bill the piece of legislation that the president endorsed. that piece of legislation does everything i just droibed and it also deals with the 700,000 daca individua...

It was unconstitutional. the courts were going to overturn it. it always should have been in the purview of congress, so he gave it to you with a time line. did he have to do it? no. they say it was a practicality. but he did it. the other side of the argument is this, though. and youre right. im not being hypocritical, but i was arguing that to raj because hesen right. youre on the left, and there are two sides to the argument heres the other one. you dont have a dead line on friday for daca. a...

>> the timing is not as critical as it is for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. people are losing their eligibility day by day. >> the court just ruled, chris. theres no hard deadline now for the daca individuals. >> thats to continue processing applications. >> theres time to -- >> youre still getting expirations. that creates anxiety. >> there is time to do what the election is about, do what we all campaigned on. theres a reason the american people put republicans in control of the house, the senate, and a ...

That the real deadline is not friday, which is the democrats say it is. and they need to start processing applications in time for people to save themselves from being deported on march 5 when this officially expires and they have said that they have a longer period of time to find a fix. theres also a divide on which negotiations are the ones that will ultimately bear fruit, obviously the senate rejected that proposal, and thats not getting a lot of credibility over on the senate side. so at th...

People have applied in for the 1,000 new positions. they will be doing background checks and processing applications of up to five million illegal immigrants who can now seek green cards and avoid deportations. conservatives say its one more reason to oppose the move. >> this is once again government usurping power to invest in itself as opposed to investing in america, in americans and the private sector and again, immigration reform is something we have to deal with. its something we have to r...

1,000 full-time employees to prepare for processing applications from immigrants, and in a memo, says, quote, the initial workload will include faces filed as a result of the executive action on immigration announced on november 20, 2014. >> its not just were going to deport you. theyre going to give people photo i.d.s, a social security number and the right to participate in social security and medicare and other benefits. >> reporter: meanwhile boehner rejected calls for next years state of th...

Performing duties theyre not trained to perform. for example, i mentioned about this so-called command center at the hec. part of the process as i understand from talking to my colleagues is to make people who perform mail room functions start processing applications for enrollment. >> weird. now what im going to ask you, this fellow coming in ostensibly to bang heads at the v.a., he will not the have that power right away. assuming hes confirmed, hell have to wait for the kind of authority that...

More important than processing applications, these employees say attendance is number one. they have to be there every day to be counted because they say thats how serco gets reimbursed. they get paid even if theres nothing for these employees to do. as you heard from lavon and other employees, by the way, at the arkansas facility, also say the same thing. they were playing games to pass the day. a lot still to come on this. >> im picking my jaw up from the ground. outrageous, outrageous and exc...