and we expect immigrations and customs enforcement to act on deportation orders and remove people from this country that our courts have said should no longer be here. reporter: will families be deported? those that the courts have ordered reporter: families could be separated. i want to be clear that the priority is on individuals who have committed crimes in this country, members of ms-13, of people who have engaged in violent acts in this country in many cases. immigrations and customs enforcement will be moving against those individuals and deporting them under the law and under a lawful order by a judge that they be deported. that s what the american people expect us to do. we have to have border security, but we also have to have interior enforcement. reporter: what happens if a child is at daycare or summer camp, the parent is arrested, is
37 minutes past the hour now. good morning to you. vice president mike pence defending the i.c.e. deportation raids that are set to start tomorrow in nine major cities across the country. he actually sat down with cnn s pamela brown after touring two border facilities yesterday. he says these raids are a way to enforce u.s. laws and stem the flow of illegal immigration. listen to this. reporter: it s important to ask you about the i.c.e. raid on sunday that the president talked about. who exactly will agents be targeting? reporter: well, i can t speak about the timing. reporter: the president said sunday today of law enforcement activity. let me let me say that immigrations and customs enforcement has continuously been doing their job over the course of this administration.
interior enforcement. what happens if a child is at daycare or summer camp, the parent is arrested, is that child going home to an empty house? what will happen? pamela, i am very confident that the american people recognize that the way forward to deal with this crisis of illegal immigration is to enforce our laws. enforcing court ordered deportation orders is exactly what we have immigrations and customs enforcement to do. the american people expect us to secure our border. they expect us to enforce our laws. and to put the interests of americans first. we ll break away and show you something happening right now in hong kong. there were protests earlier today in which there was a confrontation with authority, sflfs p there was pepper spray.
country by a judge, facing a legal deportation order. and we expect immigrations and customs enforcement to act on deportation orders and remove people from this country that our courts have said should no longer be here. will families be separated? people will be separated from this country who our courts have ordered to be deported. so families could be separated? i want to be clear on this, pamela. the priority will be on individuals who have committed crimes in this country. people who members of ms-13, people who have engaged in violence acin this country in my cases. they will be moving against those individuals and deporting them under the law and under a lawful order by a judge that they be deported. that is what the american people expect us to do. we have to have border security. but we also have to have
happen, we don t know if the new threats are more realistic or serious than the previous threats that have come and gone from them. if their aim is to try to rattle people, certainly they are succeeding. if the aim is to scare immigrant communities and scare them about the way the trump immigration has treated them, it s working. immigration officials announced the raids would target 10 major u.s. cities. atlanta a baltimore, chicago, denver, houston, los angeles, miami, new orleans, new york, and san francisco. the mayors of many of those cities are speaking out saying they will do what they can to block the supposedly impending raids to try to protect immigrant communities in the large cities. the mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot said not only would the police not cooperate with immigrations and customs enforcement in the raids, but