they never received a response, and tonight, we re told the white house is working to set up that meeting. david. mary bruce with us tonight live from the hill. mary, thank you. we move onto the controversial travel ban, and the administration says it will no longer fight the court ruling that suspended it. instead, president trump saying he will roll out a new immigration executive order next week, one that aims to address the concerns that caused a federal judge to suspend the ban in the first place. in the meantime tonight, there were protests and walkouts across the country today aimed at demonstrating immigrants impact on this economy. hundreds marched through the streets of detroit there where many stores and restaurants were closed. it comes after a week of sweeps by sbraimmigration authorities hundreds of arrests. abc s clayton sandell from denver. reporter: tonight, around the country restaurant kitchens are empty. factories are deserted. and schools quiet. as thousan
grisham told nbc news that they were informed by i.c.e. that trump s immigration executive order, not the travel ban, another one he signed, opens all 11 million undocumented immigrants to deportation. joaquin castro said after ctte the meeting it s hard not to conclude that president trump has started his mass deportation plan. it s already clear they re doing things differently. there s the story of a woman reportedly detained after her domestic abuse hearing in el paso, texas, in a hallway outside the courthouse. she was the victim and the county attorney suspects it was her alleged abuser who tipped off i.c.e. agents. think about that for a moment there s a story of men being tim kained after exiting the rising hope mission churches hypothermia shelter in fairfax county, virginia. oscar orlando ramirez said agents allowed him to go free
with the immigration executive order where they say they had all their ducks in a row. whether or not they did we ll let the courts be the decider of that, as it s been three consecutive court findings where they lost. the bottom line was it was not implemented in the way that lawmakers thought was necessary and certainly many americans thought was necessary to create a lack of confusion, instead it turned into a real mess. no doubt this will lighten the load on press secretary sean spicer. peter alexander at the white house, happy friday to you my friend. reporter: thanks. down to south carolina and drill down on the president s stops there with kelly o donnell, she is live for us in north charleston ahead of the president s visit. kelly, talk to us about why he is going to boeing and there s a lot of history here that you should update our viewers on, right? reporter: well this is an opportunity for the president to come to here for what boeing wants to talk b the dreamliner
moment. donald trump had a in a moment on inauguration day and nancy pelosi said at our set in the bar before donald trump was inaugurated her match take a deep breath and let s see what happens. within a few days, donald trump stepped all over that. his white house stepped all over that. there was a mom where he was going to get some time and space to do what he wanted to do but now, here we are. jim vandehei, thank you very much. we will read your new piece for a axios. it s on fire on. axios. i ve heard you have more readers than the new york times. it s amazing. real news. the failing the new york times strikes again. still ahead, nbc s peter alexanderdowns is live from the white house and has new reporting on the administration working on a new immigration executive order. what role does stephen miller play in drafting this one? i don t know, but the last one went so well.
that is underneath this legal battle. now it looks like that is going to be coming out next week, he said, definitively. his administration had been giving us that hint. now you hear it from the president himself. there were other interesting moments as well. the moments about not being anti-semitic. you heard him pressed on that, kristen welker popped up and asked, what are you going to do about it? after the press conference with netanyahu yesterday, the president was asked that same question. and his response immediately was to talk about his electoral college victory. this time he said, i m the least anti-semitic person. he blamed racist acts during his campaign largely on his political opponents, saying none of his supporters would have done that. and then said it was a very smooth rollout of his immigration executive order. it was not a smooth rollout just by facts on the ground, right in the airports were a mess, democrat of homeland security seemed to be unaware of a lot of the