president of the united states, takes laws that require people to be deported and after being deported due process, the last year of the obama administration looks similar to the first year of the trump administration and let me show you the numbers, under president clinton, you re pushing up to 2 million removals, president bush topped 1 million, president obama almost kind of doubled president trump in 2017, so can you give me a view of of why you think this is so controversial and removals have increased versus the returns and what that means? under president obama record number of removals, 409,000, the trump administration removed more than half of that n. the 3 years i ran enforcement
pushed in the white house and in homeland security for a nationwide operation that would be a targeted enforcement operation to deport undocumented families as well that were on a doj expedited docket. you hear him laying out this carrousel and what it looks like. i would guess, in your interview with the assistant director of i.c.e. did not no. it strikes me, there s a shallow pool here of talent from which the president is pulling and putting back and moving around. what does that say to you about its capacity to deal with what is this humanitarian crisis. couple of things. i think that mark morgan comment was worse than that, because i can look into the eyes of some of these children and see it s not that i see future gang members. i can look into their eyes and make an assessment as to what s in their soul. immigration is fraught with complex issues.
customs and border protection. for the president to be out there and not only jeopardize one enforcement operation but potentially millions, i m telling you, i guarantee you that they aren t happy. one group of people who do have relief from that hopefully is the families who might have been targeted. i will say that that the person we saw talking about this, describing how it s fun because everybody s eating cookies and watching movies. it s like when you heard the acting head of i.c.e. describe family separation and the conditions as summer camps, i will tell you having seen them with my own eyes, they were nothing like summer camps. they were children ripped apart from their parents, sitting under mylar blankets, watched by security. thank you for your coverage. later this hour the president is going to leave the white house for florida where he s set to formally announce his re-election campaign. the rally is in orlando and that s where our msnbc political
saying? is it even possible? he doesn t give us a timeline. almost like he has wiggle room if he does this over four years is he telling us the truth it s a million? if you want to do this in terms of a targeted enforcement operation, which is an i.c.e. term for what we d call deportation raids, it s pretty impossible to do a million. in order to arrest immigrants you have to put them in detention space. they are held there before they can get their papers together and then get on a plane and they re deported. right now they have 60,000 beds. and most of those beds are filled with immigrants who are coming across the border. and so i ve already heard they think removals will be way down this year because they are at capacity on detention space. from a logistical reason and the reasons laid out by the washington post, a million seems a little lofty. jacob, you have done a phenomenal job of focusing on the incredibly human element of this. they have said they re going to target mig
policy itself. the ultimate goal have to have open borders for a lot of protesters. you have large corporations, mackenzie and company that stopped doing be with ice. microsoft and others pressuring people not to do business with ice. ice is being compared with the most evil racist organizations that exist in this country. you have fortune 500 companies lending credence to that. that is nuts. how does that make you feel? how do you push back? i m insulted. it s based on the misinformation, intentional misinformation being pushed by the left. story after story. ice has never arrested someone in a high school or elementary school. never arrested anybody in a hospital or church. you read we do. you read that we do raids in neighborhoods and sweeps. every person we arrest, targeting enforcement operation, we know who we are going to