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Eliminated. >> ice is not under dha. it's under the department of homeland security. and so we have now -- >> -- would you get rid of homeland security too. >> i think. so i think we need to undo a lot of the egregious -- a lot of the egregious mistakes that the bush administration did. >> so aoc says it should go away. those comments, by the way, come as republicans on the hill are howling over what they believe was incredibly misleading tweet sent by democrats saying the treatment of migrants at the border they used a picture from the obama administration years in that tweet. it's since been...

This sunday. let's get right to nick valencia on the border of el paso, texas. what do we know about this? >> reporter: alisyn, you remember the raids that were expected to start back in june in ten later cities that were called off in an unprecedented announcement by president trump, those raids are back on. this according to to two different department of homeland security officials. they say the raids are expected to happen on sunday and last several days. the target of these raids will be at least 2,000 undocumented immigrants with current removal orders. but how these rates will also be d...

There are also people who have asylum claims who need to be able to raise those. so i think you're going to see a huge mobilization around these raids. but ultimately if the administration says we're really focused on criminals and national security threats -- >> and these people have removal orders on their heads and they're not -- >> but note that they're going after families, not people with serious criminal histories or national security threats, central american families. and it's part and parcel of the issues you've been covering at the border, going after central american families who a...

>> let's get more on this right now. cnn's nick valencia is in el paso, texas for us. what are you hearing there? >> kate, this is very targeted interior enforcement according to an ice official of 2,000 undocumented immigrants who recently arrived to the united states crossing a southern border and are under removal orders. we may also see some collateral arrests, meaning undocumented immigrants that are not the target and happen to be on the scene of an ice raid, may also be arrested by ice. this is very similar to what we first heard in june, when afterwards, closely after we expected to th...

The due process and have final removal orders. who among those will be targeted for this particular effort? it is really just information kept within i.c.e. at this point. >> ken cuccinelli right there. how far or where it will begin, also not certain what will happen to the children who in many cases have been brought to this country, some by parents, others who have been brought by others. determining to remove those who have been lawfully ordered to leave the country. we will have much more on that as we continue to watch the story, as well as the president this morning about u.s. environme...