By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. A surge in immigration raids ordered by the Trump Administration has led to the detention and likely deportation of hundreds of immigrants across the United States. The department of Homeland Security tells the newshour during the past five days there were targeted enforcement operations against criminals and undocumented immigrants from a dozen latin american countries. Without releasing total arrest numbers, d. H. S. Says the operations have occurred in california, illinois, new york, north carolina, South Carolina and georgia. Immigration rights advocates say there was also increased activity by immigration and customs enforcement, or ice, in kansas, oklahoma, texas, florida, virginia and maryland. One group criticized ice for not been forthright with advocates and their attorneys about the actions. A department of Homeland Security spokeswoman tells the newshour the head of the Ice Field Office in los angeles says his agents arrested 160 foreign nationals. Almost all of them had felony or misdemeanor convictions, and about 40 have already been deported. The steppedup action stems from President Trumps january 25th executive order to detain immigrants whove broken the law and expedite their removal. Homeland security secretary john kelly accompanied ice agents in san diego yesterday. Went to a house, knocked on the door and took a particularly bad individual, a male, into custody. Sreenivasan for some perspective on the immigration raids, i am joined from miami u. S. A. Today immigration reporter alan gomez. The Immigration Community calls them raids. Ice wants to call them planned enforcements. Was this something already planned, or was this a result of trump executive orders . Everything ice is saying right now is this was absolutely a routine operation, that they had actually started planning before President Trump signed his executive order on january 25 that really was designed to ramp up deportations. I can tell you the Obama Administration did two or three of these a year. Around this time last year, the Obama Administration led a raid against women and children that were coming from central america. It was very controversial at the time. But it kind of shows that this is part of their practice. They do this two or three times a year. And according to ice this is something that has been weeks in the planning and had nothing to do and was not coming from any different orders from the Trump Administration. Sreenivasan is there a wider net cast because of what President Trump is interested in . Absolutely. When we hear that fear, when we hear that panic from the immigrant community, this is kind of what they were waiting for. Under President Trump he set forth enforcement priorities, in other words, people they were going to target for deportation. Undocumented immigrants with criminal records, with gangitize who foaz poez a threat to national security, and those who recently crossed the border. What President Trump did when he signed his executive order on january 25, was vastly expand that pool. So now its people with any kind of criminal record, people who have been charged with crimes that would be deemed deportable, people who committed Public Welfare fraud, people who have made false representations to the government in other words, people who use a fake Social Security number to get a job. And so when you start adding all that up, i mean, ive seen estimates that this that eight million to nine million undocumented immigrants are considered priorities by the Trump Administration. So, yes, its a very, very big pool of people that theyre going after. Sreenivasan and its important to note that president obama, who left office with the title deporter in chief, i mean this is a fairly welloiled Deportation Machine thats already on the books. Absolutely. Early in his administration, he made the point very clear that he was going to enforce immigration. At the time, he was doing that to sort of convince republicans and congress to go along with him on an Immigration Reform package. But it didnt work for him in either direction. He was bashed by republicans and by saying that he didnt do enough on immigration enforcement. He was bashed by immigration advocates who said that he was doing too much. And as you mentioned, they labeled him the deportener chief. In reality what happened was he did for a time he was setting nearly records of the number of people being deported, at one point reaching 400,000. In the last few years, the numbers plummeted. Now the Trump Administration is trying to bring that back up. Sreenivasan this is also where the bulk of enforcement spending goes. I read basically we spend more on deportation and ice enforcement than on the f. B. I. , the a. T. F. , the secret service all combined. They think deals with the total amount of nan we dedicate to Border Patrol and to ice. Understand, only a small fraction of people who work for ice there are about 15,000 agents that work for ice and only about 70 of their are on the removal task force that seek People Living in the country. Its a large amratus but its one that President Trump, without any help from congress, can increase dramatically. He can retask a lot of people who work for immigrations and customs enforcement, he can refocus all those folks to going into the country and seek undocumented immigrants. Even though the apparatus already is large, it can also be increased dramatically very quickly. Sreenivasan alan gomez from usa today joining us from miami, thank you very much. Thank you. Sreenivasan the federal Election Commission is asking President Trump to immediately share any evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire so his latest allegations of voting improprieties may be investigated. The Associated Press and politico report that in a closeddoor meeting with ten republican senators on thursday and without offering any evidence, mr. Trump alleged busloads of voters from massachusetts cast ballots against him in New Hampshire, forcing him to narrowly lose the state to Hillary Clinton last november. Politico says his remarks were met with an uncomfortable silence. Previously, and also without any evidence, the president claimed he lost the National Popular vote to clinton because three million to five Million People may have voted for her illegally. Retail giants sears and kmart said today theyve removed 31 items from the trump Home Collection of furniture, lighting and other products they sold online. A spokesperson says the stores focus on their most profitable items. The wall street journal reported today that sales of ivanka trumps clothing line carried by Department Store chain nordstrom dropped 32 last year. Her father, President Trump, tweeted on wednesday that the stores decision to drop ivankas line was unfair. The next day, during a television interview, white house counselor Kellyanne Conway explicitly urged americans to buy ivankas products. Thats caused a House Oversight committee to ask the office of government ethics to review whether conway violated rules barring federal employees from endorsing products. The republican partys plan to defund planned parenthood got a show of support today from hundreds of antiabortion protests across the country today. But those protests were often smaller than simultaneous demonstrations by abortion rights supporters at the same sites. Dozens of antiabortion demonstrators marched to a planned parenthood location in the nations capital. In st. Paul, minnesota, the star tribune reports 5,000 abortion rights demonstrators were separated by Police Barriers from 500 antiabortion activists. Antiabortion groups, saying the election of President Trump has energized them, had called for protests outside 200 planned parenthoods clinics in 45 states. In detroit, some 300 activists turned up outside a planned parenthood site, most of them in support of the group. Planned parenthood, which turned 100 last year, says only 3 of its services are for abortions, and most of its federal funding is from medicaid reimbursements for preventive care. The newshour asked viewers if they were affected by President Trumps executive order on immigration. Read the story, including some of your responses, at www. Pbs. Org newshour. This month, two Major Companies announced theyre moving their headquarters within the United States. Swiss food and drink conglomerate nestle is moving its u. S. Base from Southern California to northern virginia, affecting 1,200 jobs; while caterpillar, the giant construction and equipment making company, is moving its longtime headquarters from peoria, illinois, to chicago. In tonights signature segment, a look at how these relocations highlight the tug of war between cities and states for Top Companies and jobs. Newshour weekends Christopher Booker has our report. Reporter for more than 40 years, these two buildings tucked away in the leafy enclave of fairfield, connecticut, housed the headquarters of one of the largest manufacturers in the United States general electric. But a year ago, g. E. Announced it was moving to boston and taking 200 highpaying jobs with it. Mike tetreau is fairfields first selectman, the towns top elected official. Youve got one side saying that, nah, they were planning it all along. Theres nothing we can do. On the other side, you have people saying, no, youre to blame. Its a bad tax environment. We forced them out of connecticut. Reporter g. E. Was one of fairfields top taxpayers, paying 1. 6 million in property taxes in fiscal year 2016. G. E. Still has more than 4,000 workers in other connecticut facilities, including 600 re assigned from headquarters, but the departure is a blow for a state already struggling with tremendous fiscal liabilities. Catherine smith is commissioner of the Connecticut Department of economic and community development. The reality is the 200 jobs that are moving from connecticut to boston really arent going to make or break the economy here in connecticut. But i would say that the symbolism, the perception that changed with the g. E. Decision is certainly a challenge for the state and something that weve been wrestling with a bit. Reporter connecticut is wrestling with contradictory economic forces. Its home to 13 billionaires and the state has the highest per capita income in the country. But it also has the highest per capita debt; the state is 23 billion in the red, and its pension fund for teachers and state workers is one of the countrys most underfunded. In 2014, George Mason University economists ranked connecticut dead last of the 50 states in fiscal health. A lot of notsogood choices in front of us, but we have to make the hard choices. Reporter in the past two years, Connecticut Governor dan malloy and the state legislature have chosen to make deep cuts in education and Construction Projects and laid off more than 1,000 state employees. The state has also raised its personal income tax and added a surcharge that effectively raised the 7. 5 Corporate Tax rate to 9 for the states largest companies, one of the highest rates in the u. S. In a june 2015 email to the staff, g. E. C. E. O. Jeff immelt had complained about connecticut raising its taxes five times since 2011. Immelt told employees the company had formed an Exploratory Team to look into the companys options to relocate corporate h. Q. To another state with a more pro business environment. Massachusetts offered g. E. 145 million in incentives to move, including purchasing these two warehouses as g. E. Workspace, ganting up to 25 million in Property Tax Relief from the city of boston, and possibly improving local road and parking infrastructure. It was a pretty good deal for g. E. , but it was also a pretty good deal for the state and for the city. Reporter Massachusetts GovernorCharlie Baker helped negotiate the deal. When we heard they were looking for possibly relocating their headquarters, i think we simply felt that with the ecosystem we had here and with the colleges and universities we had here, it would be a mistake for us not to at least give it a try and see what happened. Reporter how closely does massachusetts monitor the fiscal playing fields of other states and particularly states that are home to fortune 500 companies . Well, were in a competition and we know that with lots of other folks. I mean, weve had governors come up to massachusetts to make a pitch to companies here about why they should be in their states. Reporter baker, a republican, cooperated with bostons democratic mayor, marty walsh, on the pitch to g. E. The two men had cemented their relationship during the record breaking winter of 2015, when storms dumped over nine feet of snow in boston. The g. E. People actually said to us at one point that one of the things that really impressed them about the bid from boston was the fact that there really wasnt an inch of daylight between the city and the state on anything. Reporter the company also says moving its headquarters is part of a Strategic Transformation into a digital industrial company, producing the Analytical Technology required in Large Industrial products like its own aircraft engines, train locomotives and gas turbines. G. E. Vice president ann klee, who oversaw the negotiations behind the massachusetts move, says the boston region offers a steady stream of the talent the Company Needs to make the transformation it says it requires. And that just wasnt connecticut, a place thats what we call in the flow of ideas. And thats in a city where you have a great, you know, energy, access to talent, an ability to attract and retain talent. People want to move into cities. Thats what were seeing with millennials. And so, we looked at the move from that perspective. How would we get into an ecosystem of innovation . Which is what we found in boston. Reporter the new g. E. Headquarters, including this 12 story office tower, will take up about 100,000 square feet less than the space of the old connecticut buildings. We think about the talent were bringing in. Lots of coders, software developers, technologists. So, when we think about our new headquarters, this is not your grandmothers headquarters. I think that jeff immelt realizes that there is a different mindset. Reporter boston globe Business Reporter jon chesto has written about the deal. He talks about it a lot, about, i dont want to sit in an office where i can look out the window and see deer running by. He says, i want to walk out the office and get, yeah, i think he used the expression, was punched in the face by some m. I. T. Geek who can do my job better than me. And theres a lot of smart people within a threemile radius of where. Where their headquarters is now. Reporter g. E. Has now joined a roster of Large Companies leveraging better deals for themselves from states. Food processing giant conagra, the maker of chef boyardee and slim jim, moved its headquarters from omaha, nebraska, to chicago with a collection of undisclosed tax incentives from illinois. Newell brands, which makes sharpie pens and rubbermaid products, moved from atlanta, georgia, to hoboken, new jersey, with a 27 million tax incentive package. Hotel chain marriott stayed put in maryland after it was promised a 62 million in incentives. Competition between the states overall is extremely high. Companies that have their presence here in the state get calls from north carolina, South Carolina, texas, so we have governors that come into the state to try to recruit companies away. So, its incredible intensive. My own personal view and i think our governor, as well is that its not necessarily beneficia