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Law enforcement to crack down on illegal immigration. the white house says it's merely upholding the laws on the books and it emphasizes its focus for now is on those who have committed other crimes here in the u.s. although cnn is learning there is broad leeway about what crimes would be considered significant enough to trigger deportation. the white house says the president plans to keep in place for now the dreamer program for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children. the directives about enhanced enforcement tactics come as president trump pledges to stick toge...

Administration overed medicaid, and over his effort to extend his dreamer program to adults who had legal citizen children who were undocumented. we saw the exact same pattern where they had a single district court in that case block the nationwide application of that executive order. it went up through a conservative circuit, was upheld, went to the supreme court. the supreme court didn't act, and president obama was check mated. it was that exact decision that the judge in seattle, in washington, cited in arguing for a nationwide application of his ruling, and now president trump is looking ...

President obama's dreamer program. it's technically called deferred action for childhood arrivals or daca and it's why 750,000 undocumented immigrants can get driver's licenses, legally work and attend college. now many college presidents want to protect those undocumented students so let's talk about that. with me is president of the university of san francisco, father paul fitzgerald. welcome, father. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thanks for being with me. tell me what your undocumented students on campus are saying to you. >> at the university of san francisco we have about 80 st...

Children. they were able to get valid driver's licenses, able to go to college and legally secure jobs under president obama's special program. it was on the campaign trail president-elect trump said he would end that program. javier polomaras is the president of the united states chamber of commerce. he's been talking with the trump transition team. good morning. >> good morning, carol, how are you in. >> i'm good. so what does mr. trump say about the dreamer program? >> my conversations with michael cohen of the team have been encouraging. three observations. first, the team has been willing...

Dreamer program if you are in a gang, if you're a known gang member, you don't qualify. so if he was in a known gang and was allowed to stay here under deferred action by the president, then the administration screwed up. >> right. let's set some basics. senator grassley says he has a source. we don't know who the source is. >> he's asking to confirm this of dhs. >> correct. >> he's received no response thus far. >> he's giving them a deadline. but the program under which senator grassley's source believes he was allowed to stay here was not legislated by congress. this is another executive or...