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Being held at all. raul, will that be able to stop the raids? if you're here illegally, you're here illegally. >> if you're here without documentation, that's a fact. however, for these people, the term of having, as we mentioned, a final order of deportation is very misleading. what this aclu lawsuit points to is many of these were issued for people in absentia, no legal requirement that they receive them. the problem for i.c.e. going forward, i'm not sure if the aclu will be able to have, say, an injunction or some type of temporary restraining action to stop this. on the ground there are ma...

Instill fear in imgrant communities and there are a lot of things that have been happening to create that kind of fear. this new situation where people are having a $500,000 fines imposed on them for not departing the united states, warning about raids going on this week and this creates an atmosphere of fear, particularly in immigrant communities throughout the united states. >> i talked to ron vitello, former aking director of i.c.e. under president trump and here's what he said about the families that could be targeted tomorrow. >> many of the people who applied for asylum or wanted to go t...

Professional attorneys at i.c.e. are very familiar with, going over the ground that is required to do this safely and to do it effectively. >> harris: so, how are these particular individuals or families identified? they had deportation orders. anything beyond that? had they committed other crimes? what? >> some of them certainly could have, but essentially the court noticed them to come for a hearing, many of them did not go, and i.c.e. subsequently notified them again and very few people showed up under that notice. they had information that they went to court, the judge reviewed the circums...

Not to open a door if there is a deportation warrant not to say anything and to record what's happening. what are the rules for agents including deportation orders? >> well, agents have a lot of administration warrants. that's not going to permit them entry to a home. people can't hide in a house or church forever. the problem is lack of focus and resources that are dedicated to the border. you have a focus over the last 10 months. they have opened 60,000 cases, 10,000 cases have been closed in the last 10 months. 87% of those cases have been dispositioned in absentia. they've really left the ...

Countries, guatemala, honduras and el salvador were granted asylum in fiscal year 2017. so when people tell you there's a crazy system where people are applying for asylum getting it, 7.89% get it. figures show 89% of asylum seekers do in fact show up for court dates. we're talking about 11% whose caseses are decided in absentia. typically, decided against those people. so it's just important to keep track of what the serious problem or so-called serious problem. i want to get into the necessity of all of this with nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. this is a reminder that the constitution of u...