that trump s policy advisers are drafting a policy for him to create a registry of muslims, immigrants from muslim countries. the transition to governing doesn t look any different than campaigning did. republicans in congress say they will start in the first week of january to move legislation to build a wall on the southern border. the trump transition team says they do plan to start a nationwide roundup of immigrants for mass deportations, millions of deportations starting on the first day trump is in office and they really are talking about a registry of muslims. that is a thing that they say is in the works. as for whether or not trump will also implement his often restated campaign pledge that he will ban muslims from entering this country, that pledge is still up on the trump campaign s official website. and the legal discussion around that policy proposal suggests that it might be possible for him to do that if he really wants to do it.
it s this unprecedented surging of support. we ve never seen anything like this in our 96-year history. it s important that people understand we re not there yet. we re just beginning the fight. the support is fantastic, it s essential. comes from every state across the country. 30% comes from states that were carried by donald trump. not just san francisco, l.a. and new york. we have new contributors from montana, mississippi. there s a growing movement of people who are concerned about where we re going. the ououng of requests to volunteer, i don t even know what to do with some of the folks. we re going to put them to work because we have a great deal of work to do. one of the things that i have sort of unexpectedly encountered maybe i should have expected it, but in the last eight days is a lot of happy talk from people who are opposed to donald trump and opposed to some of the worst things he proposed during the campaign. they say they don t think he s actually going to implem
immigrant. let me see if you re a criminal. oh, walk free. you think they ll let the undocumented immigrants who don t have a criminal record just slip away? we re in for the fight of our lives. when the president-elect said on sunday he ll try to deport 2 to 3 million people he s talking about dragnet, unconstitutional searches and seizures that will violate the fourth amendment, the fifth amendment, the 14th amendment. what will be so important for us, this is something you can t bring a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the undocumented immigrants. you have to show the cases, the fact patterns, talk to the clients, depose people. make sure you have all the important work that will go into the necessary litigation. but we ll be ready to do it. we have to. anthony romero. eat your wheaties, sir. i m trying to. stay in touch. the president-elect today
this is so much more important. and more serious. and so that i you know, that s the focus. i think what ivanka is trying to say, who cares? who cares? this is big league stuff. this is our country. our country is going bad. we re going to sabe our country. i don t care about hotel occupisy, it s peanuts compared to what we re doing? did you say peanuts? today is day eight of the trump transition effort. apparently they re still trying to pull off a presidential transition in which the president-elect does not divest himself of his business interests. in that 60 minutes interview, trump was not asked about hotel occupancy rates. he proactively brought that up himself as a thing he says he doesn t care about anymore. and it is possible that he will be so able to compartmentalize his interests that he won t care about hotel occupancy rates or
leaving the logistical and protocol details that would normally be settled far in advance still to be determined. quote, there has been a lot of confusion said one japanese official. but to be clear, the japanese prime minister is coming to new york city tomorrow to meet the president-elect of the united states and as of tonight japan does not know where they re meeting him or when or who is coming to the meeting and they don t know who to call to find out. you know, you guys should check with egypt. apparently they found a working number. or if you know anybody who place golf maybe? the head of the aclu is here tonight, anthony romero, the mayor of new york city is here tonight, having just met with the president-elect today, apparently he s got a number for him.