that s what has changed. she was convicted of felony identity theft in 2009 for working at the golfland amusement park. arrest was workplace raids by the sheriff there. immigration and customs enforcement say garcia was being held on the deportation order in 2013. she fought the order for voluntary deportation. the obama administration changed its deportation policies that allowed her to stay here. her children are outraged. no one should ever have to be separated from their mother. especially my sister. she is a teenager and growing up and needs my mom there for her. my mom is my everything. she is always there for me and no one should have to go through this. we re worried for my mom but we have faith that everything will turn out good. checked in early yesterday at the ice headquarters, by
inmate wanted for deportation is to be released. i.c.e. also says its primary focus now is on deporting convicted felons and repeat offenders. the issue sparked national outrage this summer when two california women were killed and cases allegedly involving two undocumented immigrants with multiple arrest records. still, many authorities don t like the new i.c.e. notification plan. some fearing it will erode support for police in immigrant communities. this lack of trust and lack of cooperation has been building for years. reporter: recently immigrant advocates protested outside i.c.e. headquarters in los angeles. a simmering balance over finding the balance between immigrant rights and fighting crime. now some authorities say the answer is for congress to pass a law requiring local authorities to cooperate with ice on these notifications that gives those authorities a political and legal cover. but some immigrant groups don t like that and the secretary of
a hundred kids, and the next deadline that, larger deadline, july 26th, all parents and children need to be reunified. it does not look like they re going to hit that deadline at all. we know that there s a hearing in san diego to update the progress. going into that, we know that they are going to seek an extension likely for those last two deadlines. they will likely lay out the challenges they ve had in reunifying kids with their parents, the fact they say this dna testing, as they are indeed using, is taking a lot of time. notable, though, of course those are challenges of their own making, given that this is all coming from the zero tolerance policy. but it s certainly interesting, jim. as this scramble to make these reunifications and the scrutiny on them over their immigration policy was an interesting moment just a short time ago we saw vice president mike pence travel to the i.c.e. headquarters here in washington, d.c., with secretary nielsen at his side.
sides is growing by the day but threats against apartment of homeland security and especially ice employees have gotten so bad that a departmentwide memo was sent out warning employees to get their doors and windows locked. one official found a burned and decapitated animal on his front porch in dc. stop kidnapping children! reporter: protesters camped outside ice headquarters for over a week, got their message amplified thanks to one of the state s congressman. it is time to abolish ice, the us immigration and customs enforcement agency, and the bill would do just that. one of the cosponsors said ice is tearing apart families and ripping at the moral fabric of our nation. 5 democratic members of congress are calling for ice to be abolished. in a rally in south carolina donald trump defended the agency. the democrats don t like ice, great, brave, tough people. they are much tougher than ms
not only did he offer a passionate defense of i.c.e., but accused democrats of making their opposition to the agency a central part of the party s platform. the american people have a right to their opinions, but these spurious attacks on i.c.e. by our political leaders must stop. in an address at i.c.e. headquarters, vice president mike pence responded to the growing calls from democrats to abolish i.c.e. i want to make it clear to all of you, and all of those looking on, under president donald trump we will never abolish i.c.e. i.c.e. short for immigration and customs enforcement is the agency charged with detaining and deporting all migrants who enter the country illegally. it s became the face at the border after the president started separating migrant children from their parents. protesters have been camping out at i.c.e. headquarters across the country.