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Protesters are taking action against the prosecutes crackdown. Activists say the recent wave of arrests is striking fear into families who pose no criminal threat. Ice Officials Say that the arrests were in fact routine. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez joins me from atlanta. Gabe . Hi, there, amon. There were several arrests in atlanta alone. Ice Officials Say these were routine Law Enforcement operations, but immigration advocates say this is what they have feared. On the same week that protests ecorrupted in arizona as a mother convicted of using a false Social Security number was deported. Families of ...

Virus can, and how much work still has to be done as well. this administration of course is still dealing with the afghanistan withdrawal, and now we are seeing potentially a government shutdown, and as much as, to be clear, some of the fault lies at the feet of republicans, being obstructionists, it's not clear that the general public at large will see that and democrats who won all parts of government right now could face the majority of the blame so there is a lot going on right now for this president. he knows it's a pivotal moment for his first year in office. >> we know there's a nervous...

It's a senate rule and only the senate can do it. i certainly think that there are many senators who understand the urgency of the moment. but there are, of course, a handful that we have to continue to persuade, and that is something that will take place with increased intensity over the next few days and next few weeks. you're absolutely right, because republicans have committed to voter suppression as an electoral strategy and they are bankrupt of substantive ideas in so many areas, we know that we've got to deal with this issue in order to preserve our democracy. >> and the intensity has t...

Magazine. what's going on and where is the hill on all of this? >> reporter: it's another about face from the president who early this week tweeted that now is the time for congress, as he put it, to fix the country's broken m aggregation system. but just this morning he's now saying that republicans should hold off, should wait until after the midterm election. so hears one in a series of tweets. republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congress women and women in november. dems are playing games and have no intention of doing anything t...

Sticking with the idea that to fight back is to wichblt we want to agree with president trump when he's right. we believe in government that works and is effective, but we're not going to compromise your values or what our constituents need. we don't want to go along with president trump just to avoid this image of being obstructionists. in the long run, we've got to win some elections. we're going to try to be as articulate as we can. >> do they stand back and see how republicans handle this works giving them enough rope for them to do what they want to do with them in terms of pressure? >> w...