trump said the hash haitian as all have aids. not just what trump is reported to have said but done as president. joining us is reporter jackelyn charles, correspondent for the miami h miami herald. the images of the immigrants fleeing the united states for canada is jarring one, as jarring as images of parenting being dragged away from children and babies being separated. before we come to the comments, i want to talk about daca for a minute. to put up on the screen, the top countries of daca recipients, mexico, eloque salvador, guatem peru. there are 58,000 immigrants facing deportation now. how afraid are immigration rights activists that they cannot save those people? immigration rights activists
defective is enforcement. making enforcement decisions. rule making on the other hand, is a quasi legislative function. and the courts do not defer as much to the executive when it makes rules like the rule it made a few weeks ago. so this is lawyers at work. they have told the administration you want to achieve your goals? achieve it through administrative actions. they re going to be much hard tore review. they re going to be retail rather than wholesale. and the people on the other side are going to have to come over with a legal strategy that is going to be much more creative and uphill in order to challenge this highly questionable order. because it s legally on much more solid grounds. jeff, obviously, you know, democrats, immigration rights activists are up in arms about this. but let s be clear. i mean, donald trump talked about this repeatedly as a candidate. this doesn t seem that it should be much of a surprise to just about anybody. i mean, he s fulfilling a
we re hearing from democrats, from some liberal activists and sadly some in the media that, you know, we re starting to see massive deportation, indiscriminate raids, of all sorts of immigrants including those that don t pose a threat to the security of our communities. and that s flatly wrong. there s no evidence to conclude that. all right, now, let s talk about the what got stirred up this morning. there was an a.p. news alert said the president was going to call up 100,000 national guard troops. and it s all based on what appears to be what is standard in this town when there is some drafting of implementation of executive orders, staff-to-staff drafting. right. that there was some sort of staff-to-staff communication between dhs staff and white house staff. now, the white house says it s not a white house document. that is a fact. but that doesn t mean white house staff weren t in here. and that seems to be at the heart of the concern with some immigration rights activists,
the inauguration itself to see what this is going to look like. tomorrow, saturday, about 25,000 people are expected to descend on the national mall for a huge civil rights march, also in d.c. tomorrow, there s an immigrants rally, undocumented immigrants and immigration rights activists from across the country are bussing into d.c. to take part in the final big immigration rally while president obama is still in office. that s saturday. on sunday it s the day of action you ve heard senator bernie sanders talk about on this show. there s going to be roughly 50 rallies across the country. senator jeff merkley of oregon was here last night, he told me he ll be at one of these rallies happening at home for him in oregon on sunday. bernie sanders and chuck schumer will both be at one of these rallies in warren, michigan. all this week as the senate and house took their first votes towards revealing the affordable care act, we ve been watching small protests pop up at congressional offices
seven days out from inauguration day, hundreds of thousands of spectators and well wishers are expected in d.c., as are hundreds and thousands of protesters, all at the same time. everybody be nice to each other, okay? but you don t to wait to the inauguration itself to see what this is going to look like. tomorrow, saturday, about 25,000 people are expected to descend on the national mall for a huge civil rights march, also in d.c. tomorrow, there s an immigrants rally, undocumented immigrants and immigration rights activists from across the country are bussing into d.c. to take part in the final big immigration rally while president obama is still in office. that s saturday. on sunday it s the day of action you ve heard senator bernie sanders talk about on this show. there s going to be roughly 50 rallies across the country. senator jeff merkley of oregon was here last night, he told me he ll be at one of these rallies