alan gomez, immigration reporter alan gomez has fall noon this morass with us. we re like you have no choice. mitch mcconnell, sounded positive on the deal. what s the sense? do republicans hope to pass this thing? it seems right now there s a certain amount of caution among republicans we re talking to in the hallwayings. but the reality is we do expect mitch mcconnell to put this on the floor. we do expect republicans overwhelmingly to support it or at least to support the idea of preventing another shutdown. i mean, really, really do not want that. everyone here is sort of waiting on tender hooks to see what the president is going to do. we heard from him earlier today. i would just like to point out that, you know, the president can t just add things to a bipartisan deal that s already been struck and expect for it to hang together. excuse me, i m not used to your
kacie, thank you, alan gomez, thank you. sorry about my bipartisan horn. i m sorry. don t apoeapologize. you know what that means? it means she likes it. another breaking story we re following. an nbc news exclusive. the senate intelligence committee s almost at the end of its investigation into the 2016 election. we re going to tell you what the committee s up covered after two years and 200 interviewings. first, you know it, we know it, it is black history month. that means it is time to celebrate nbc s blk recognizing black women who are providing leadership in their communities. today we want to acknowledge tiffany lofton, director of the naacp youth and college division. she brought more than 1,000 students to march for our lives last year. she s an advocate for gun control and the importance of black voices. i work with all folks who are under the age of 35.
exist. joining us, immigration reporter alan gomez. illegal border crossings, let s make it clear, are way down. in fact, we can credit the president with his tough stance on immigration, which has less and less people trying to illegally make take a look at that chart. fewer illegal border crossings. peaked in 2000. we have, generally speaking, been going down since there, alan. what s your take on this? going down. we re at historic lows right now. there s a little over 300,000 undocumented immigrants caught along the border in fiscal year 2017. it s the lowest in 47 years, going back to 1971. that s important because what you just showed, the two previous deployments of the national guard, the context for those is different. in 2006, we had over 1 million undocumented immigrants coming over the border each year. that was in direct response to