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Stands for the deferred action for childhood arrivals, allows unauthorized immigrants brought in as children to work and study legally. today nearly 800,000 are daca recipients, that mean 800,000 would be directly impacted if the program were to end. the removal could have a direct impact on the aftermath of hurricane harvey. why? because houston has the third largest unauthorized immigrant population in the country. translating to 575,000 people according to pugh research. of that number, nearly 57,000 houstonians are in the program and some 68,000 of harris county residents are daca eligible...

Roll back to some extent the daca program, you know how washington works. what kind of fight do you see setting up? >> well, i think, unfortunately, as in all things immigration related, you run the likelihood of having other issues brought to the fore. and for example, i heard the president quoted the idea of a dream act, which would put the daca program into statute, being tied to funding for a border wall. and thereby using the young people as trade bait. that would be the wrong way to approach it. congress can put the dream act into statute and remove any uncertainty that exists regarding ...

Stay in the country. during the campaign, the president referred to deferred action for childhood arrivals as illegally amnesty. shortly after the inauguration he appeared today soften. here's what vice president mike pence had to say yesterday. >> president trump has said all along he's giving careful consideration to that issue and that when he makes his decision he'll make it as he likes to say with big heart. and i know that he will. >> joining me now janet napolitano former homeland security security, former arizona governor, now president of the university of california. you helped enact...

We will immediately terminate president obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants. >> we're going to deal with daca with heart. it's a very difficult thing for me. because i love these kids. i love kids. i have kids. >> president trump wavering on his position about the continuation of daca, changing his substance from the campaign trail to the oval office. now it seems he may have made up his mind. the president is expected to pull the plug on the obama era policy that protects youn...

I don't think there's anybody questioning the climate is changing. for this administration to say don't think about that when you spend huge amounts of federal dollars for infrastructure is not reasonable. let's allow epa to continue to work with communities on climate resilience instead of shutting the office down and taking the information off the web. let's deal with reality as we see it today. this is a reality of deregulation and this is a reality of a changing climate. we need to face proper regulation and we need to face the changing climate head on or else you're going to see more of t...