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Complied with the law after they've arrived in the united states, and we're supposed to go out after a promise they would be called up after they go to court. this is about complying with the law. congress hasn't changed the law. congress hasn't done anything. the real burden here is congress doesn't deal with its responsibility to address the immigration problems in statute. president trump is trying to comply with the law and the i.c.e. teams are out there trying to enforce the law. it's going to be overwhelming, it's a challenge, but at least this is calling attention to what is the real pr...

House lawn is nbc's ron allen. ron, give us a little bit of play by play of how the timeline for this whole thing unfolded. >> reporter: you have to remember there are ongoing talks between the united states and mexico about immigration problems at the border. and some of these principles that were announced as a big deal were apparently agreed to many months ago. for example, here's some of the timeline -- back in december of 2018, mexico agreed to expand the allowance of asylum seekers to remain in mexico. these are people who requested asylum in the united states, who are going to stay in m...

Kelly o'donnell is with us. tell us about that executive order and if it's going to happen. >> the president returned to the south lawn, and while he did not take questions from reporters, he did address a group of supporters, shaking hands and that kind of thing. as he entered the white house, our colleagues still on the south lawn mouthed something along the lines of, we're doing well, so that is in relation to the tariff negotiations, three days of those. we don't know if the president intends to sign that executive order which sort of starts the clock to a monday interrogation. if mexico d...

Those composition coming into the country to make it more merit-based is something that was a jeb bush proposal. it's likely going to turn off the very people, at least certain wings of the people that supported donald trump in the republican primary. the and culture wing if you will who want to decrease immigration.eric: jeb bush, that's an interesting phrase. as you point out, there is that resistance among some of the hardliners but senator lindsey graham says you have to address it. he is out there saying this is what the senator said about those 11 million. >> i can't imagine a solution t...

A lot of your republican colleague do not or tempered in enthusiasm when talking about it. i'm curious, is there room for movement here? are people like you, president trump, could they convince some republicans to get behind it? >> yeah, i think there is. you know, i don't know anybody who's not for finding people and letting people in that are going to be the most helpful to this country. but especially because he keeps familial relations there's a significant portion of people who can come in that way. i think there's some movement, i think there's some negotiation to be had. i view this as...