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This women's issue. because of her and her influence ivanka may have even more of a voice with her dad inside the white house. >> that's a good thing. kate bennett, thank you. now to this, taken from their homes and their workplaces, millions more are bracing for that knock on the door, afraid they will be next. cnn now has new numbers on exactly how many undocumented immigrants have been arrested in recent raids all across the country. so we have now a total of 680 people were detained across five cities. you see them here on your screen, l.a., san antonio, chicago, atlanta and new york. mo...

York. caesar nice to meet you. >> thank you for having me. >> i understand there is a whole notion of fear. i was out in california last week, i spoke to a senator about it. he ooeld told me about the children. which i want to get to. is there a spike in deportation? is this on par from the last few years? what are you seeing. >> this activity does not reflect an increased activity on immigration enforcement. >> it does not. >> does knots. immigration is accurately saying that this immigration arrests were planned prior, almost several weeks before. and the other important thing is that many o...

>> thank you so much for that report. stay safe out. there thank you very much. >> all right. >> from here in los angeles to the other side of the country in new york, i will inauguration and customs enforcement carried out enforcement raids. i'm sure you saw them in news. they're targeting six states, arresting 1 60 undocumented immigrants in california alone. a spokeswoman says these raids were routine immigration enforcement actions while this morning president trump's tweet seemed to contradict this. he said the crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the key thing of my campaign promise....

Problems and so i'm hoping we can have this conversation separate and without threats. >> joining me now is caesar vargas, co-founder of the dream action coalition. he's an undocumented immigrant. thank you, first of all, for being here, caesar. >> thank you so much for having me. >> you're an attorney. do mayors have the legal basis for resisting trump on deporting immigrants? >> well, first, i hope the mayor and the governor who said new york city is a sanctuary city actually commit to those words, it is not just a campaign rhetoric. but it is not only legal -- >> as well as garcetti and oth...

People with some criminal records. but let's be very careful. who are the people with criminal records? sometimes it could be a parent who has worked with fake papers, who -- >> which is called a criminal -- creates a criminal. >> we saw in arizona, sheriff joe arpaio was targeting latinos and immigrants and charging them with felonies. in that case, let's be careful about those terms. when we see donald trump talk about persecuting immigrants, you're creating social unrest because we're not just targeting undocumented immigrants. many of the families have u.s. citizens spouses, u.s. citizen c...