immigration hawks, in particular, national review is one of them, trump has a tendency to undermine his case, and this is a great example. well, i think that maybe the combination of those stories and the court action on the travel ban suggested that maybe going slow here, a little slower on a subject this sensitive is a smart court. it s not like the idea of taking a tough every line on immigration is not politically unpopular thing, but how you do it does matter. all right. i m going to leave it there as we leave you this morning, a programming note, we have live coverage of president trump s address to congress tuesday, beginning at 9:00 eastern where i ll be joining my colleagues, lester holt and tom brokaw. that s all for today. back next week because p it this sunday, it s the sunday after miami beach 2, but if it s this sunday, it s meet the press. see more end game and post game sponsored by boeing on the meet the press facebook page.
freedom to deport under trump and this statement here, morale has increased since the signing of the orders, said the unions representing ice and border patrol agents. the point is, there is clearly something has changed in some of these and it is these are stories that are not going to be politically helpful to the president. one of the things they are going to do have to do if they re encouraging the freelancing by sort of the least restrained elements of these bureaucracies, they have to pull them back in or it is going to discredit all of their policiep. this was somebody born in the united states. yeah. but one of the things i think republicans or conservatives have worried about is some of the things that trump and the trump had min strags has done undermines the things he cares about most, and i think this is a great example and immigration hawks, in particular i know national review is one of them,
a solid border. where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried. we ll be coming out with policy on that over the next period of four weeks. mr. president, will they be allowed to stay? i ll tell you over the next four weeks. certainly sounds there like he s going to be much more moderate than he was in the campaign. and much more moderate than many conservative, immigration hawks. and this is a place, where so many of my ideological liberal friends running around with their hair on fire all the time. this is the part of trump we should recognize that is perhaps heartening. he is not this ideological creature and perhaps the d.r.e.a.m. part of this, the most sympathetic immigrants were part of a negotiating tactic where he says i m going to do these two things and inn force current law and tell sanctuary cities you re on notice. you don t take this federal money from the federal government if you don t do this but over here i
unsettled by the pace of change they want their country back. trump remains a hero to these folks because he championed the birther movement, current emphasis on illegal immigration resonates because it is a shorthand way of describing an america threatened by others. including that guy in the white house. they have been schooled to believe that change is tantamount to a breakdown in order. and yet, even the pro business wall street journal noetd in an editorial about birth right citizenship, the immigration hawks are correct that birth right citizenship is unusual among nations, but since when did republicans dump their belief in american exceptionalism? the idea that america is special. look, we have problem that need fixing. when a 32-year-old woman is slain in broad day light in san francisco by a guy who broke into the country five times, you can safely say that border control is one of them.
violence against them and anti-immigration lesson is pretty far, harris, and they re saying there are worse american immigration problems. everybody agrees that serious felons need to be removed from the country, but the message being sent is that if you don t commit a serious felly all you do is break our immigration laws there are going to be shabsolutely no consequences aen drain our tax dollars and no enforcement. reporter: record number of deportationin deportationings, 410,000 in all and over half committed felonies or misdemeanor, suggesting they re the priority. harris: dominic, kind of bottom line it for us. what do the changes tell us about the obama administration immigration polyat this point? if you listen to the immigration hawks, they say it s further evidence that the