in a letter to cummings from the secretary for legislative affairs explaining, quote, during discussions between department and committee staff the kennedy staff stated they don t intend to abide by dhs guidelines. we are unable to accommodate your visit unless we receive a firm commitment the committee and staff will comply fully with all existing guidelines and policies. they take it very seriously. we are awaiting a response from cummings s office but do not have that yet. the 2020 campaign trail democrats ramping up on the transfer of fema and other agency funds to support border operations. senator cory booker saying it is reprehensible donald trump is more interested in ripping families apart and building a wall to drive people apart then he is helping people at risk from a natural disaster, a storm bearing down. the administration is defending
instructions. dhs issuing this statement, due to the operational burden placed on the field by their refusal to comply with instruction during last week s staff delegation visit cvp pulled the trip in which more site visits were to take place this week. dhs communicated to the committee that due to their conduct cvp could not support visits from the committee. fox news obtaining that communication in a letter from the assistant secretary of legislative affairs saying, quote, during discussions between department and committee staff the committee staff state they don t intend to abide by dhs guidelines. we are unable to accommodate your visit unless we receive firm commitment the committee and staff will comply with all existing guidelines and policies. we have not seen a response. on the campaign trail 2020 democrats are blasting the
fox news hearing for the first time from his team what is in and what is out. heather: all of this comes on the heels of the dhs taking a tough new stance targeting criminal illegals. griff jenkins. good morning, griff. good morning, heather and abby, issuing new dhs guidelines in that revised executive order you mentioned it s imminent perhaps coming all but today speaking exclusively on the first hundred days programs and white house adviser steven miller weighed in on it. the reality is that the seven countries, look at yemen, look at syria, look at the conditions in these countries, this is an assessment based on the threat they pose today and going into the future. we ve had dozen and dozen terrorism cases, case after case after case.
it snteresngecause congress is in recess right now. we re not going to hear a ton of feedback on capitol hill from members of congress as we heard, but, you know, it depends on how they re going about what the communication has been like, the difference this time around is that donald trump does have a lot of his key players and cabinet positions in place. jeff sessions has been confirmed, doj for example, dhs and everything else is kind of in play. so that helps to execute these kinds of things, but aside from that order, the dhs guidelines coming out are also presenting some kinds of challenges for some republicans even. and so, they are going to have to balance, they are going to have to be clearer about what the messaging is on both of these measures. you heard yesterday, actually, from devin nunez, the california republican saying that there were some concerns that he had about what the language was regarding the dhs orders of regarding deportations and such. and so, you re going
14i69. they re talking about enforcement, but this is a real shift in it the way things have been done. reporter: it absolutely is. under the new dhs guidelines, fwafrk basically the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the dwrund could be subject to deportation. so those not tar it gett getted undert fwom stwraiks could be target itted, but the trump administration saying that the stweeping changes do not impact for now the protections in it place for undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. tonight the department of homeland security trreleasing n guide tlins. they broaden who i.c.e. may target and a expedite the tree nufl of undocumented immigrants from the u.s. recently cuss tottoms enforced arrested 600 and said most were