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Bill O'Reilly and former Obama administration official Austan Goolsbee clashed tonight while debating President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

O'Reillynoted that Democrats quickly came to the defense ofDaniel Ramirez Medina, an illegal immigrant and so-called "Dreamer" who was arrested in a Seattle suburb earlier this month during anImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid.

Ramirezreportedly admitted to immigration officials that he has gang ties, although his attorneys later denied those allegations.

Lawyers and supporters of Ramirez have said the 23-year-old's arrest is unconstitutional and he should be immediately released.

O'Reilly repeatedly askedGoolsbeeif Ramirez should be released before authorities can get to the bottom of his alleged gang affiliation.

"You hold him, right? And then you find out what the story is, right?" O'Reilly pressed.

Goolsbee said he can't answer that because doesn't have the details, which caused O'Reilly to cut in.

"This is what's wrong with your party!" O'Reilly said. "You're a Democrat. Democrats don't want any deportations. They want total non-enforcement."

Watch the fiery exchange above, and let us know what you think in the comments.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Miguel Angel Torres, an illegal immigrant living in Austin, Texas, for the past fourteen years, during the recent Operation Cross Check roundup of criminal aliens. Itappearsimmigration officers arrested Torres while they were looking for his brother-in-law, a previously deported illegal alien, the Texas Tribune reported.

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[My husband] is a person whos never done anything wrong and who complies with the law, Irma Perez, the wife of the illegal immigrant, told the Texas news outlet. We dont know why they detained him. He was driving his own car, not my brothers. He has nothing to do with my brother.

Texas law does not allow a person who does not have legal status in the U.S. to obtain a driver license or legally operate a motor vehicle.

Perez, who admitted she is also an illegal immigrant, said her husband drove to their daughters school to deliver a Valentines Day box of chocolates. Agents who stopped Torres asked if he was Jose Manuel Perez, his wifes brother. It appears officers checked his identity and learned he was in the country illegally and placed him in custody.

Operation Cross Check is a law enforcement action planned to round up criminal aliens and process them for removal proceedings. While the operation targets criminals, gang members, and others who violate immigration laws, ICE officials acknowledged that non-criminals could be caught up in the net.

During targeted enforcement operations ICE officers frequently encounter additional suspects who may be in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, ICE officials said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. Those persons will be evaluated on a case by case basis and, when appropriated, arrested by ICE.

In this case, it appears the ICE officers were searching for Perez brother, Jose Manuel Perez, an illegal alien she admitted had been previously deported. She did not say why he had been deported, or how many times he faced deportation.

When ICE officers stopped Torres, they asked if he was Perez. Irma Perez said she believe the officers had followed Torres from their home to the school. She believed they might be staking out her home because she had provided her address to law enforcement officials when she paid off her brothers traffic fines.

Perez immigration lawyer Mark Kinzler told the Texas Tribune reporter, They were looking, apparently, for someone else, and he wasnt that person, but then they took him anyway. He seemed to expect that immigration officers would just ignore the law when they found out Torres was illegally present in the U.S.

Even though ICEs PR campaign is that theyre picking up criminals and picking up people with prior deports, and Im sure some of them are, it already seems like a lot of them are not those people, Kinzler continued. People who work every day and try to take care of their families are getting swept up.

The targeted immigration enforcement operation picked up 51 foreign nationals in the Austin area during the two-day action, Breitbart Texas reported. At least 23 of those arrested had criminal convictions. Those included a Mexican national previously deported following a conviction for aggravated assault; a Salvadoran national who pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child; and another Mexican national convicted of domestic violence as a repeat offender, information obtained by Breitbart Texas from ICE officials revealed. In addition to criminal aliens, the officers were also targeting those with pending court-ordered removal status and those who had been previously deported, like Perez, and known to be back in the country.

Breitbart Texas Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief Brandon Darby contributed to this article. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him onTwitterandFacebook.

Bob Priceserves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTX.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Protesters participate in the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters are calling for an end to stepped up ICE raids and deportations, and that health care be provided for documented and undocumented people. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 700004520 ORIG FILE ID: 642760812(Photo: David McNew, Getty Images)

Immigration and border agents will be directed to more aggressively go after immigrants in the country illegally and their families, according to a leaked pair of memos from the Department of Homeland Security.

The memos, first reported by The Washington Post and other media, offer a list of sweeping new guidelines to law enforcement agencies that would implement many of the executive orders on immigration enforcement recently signed by President Trump.

The guidelines, signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly, include hiring thousands of additional enforcement agents and increasing the number of immigration judges, expanding the pool of immigrants prioritized for removal, enlisting local law enforcement to help with arrests and speeding up deportation hearings. They also propose prosecuting parents and family members in the U.S. who pay smugglers to bring over unaccompanied minors.

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The memos were a draft order and still being reviewed by the White House, according to the Associated Press.

The guidelines would put into play legal tools available to presidents for years but largely overlooked by past administrations, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit research institute that promotes stricter control on immigration.

Expediting the removal of immigrants who have been in the country illegally for less than two years, for example, has been a legal remedy since 1996, but underused by past administrations, she said. She called the guidelines, if implemented, a step in the right direction.

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What this administration is doing is using the tools available in the law to a greater extent to address problems that have been neglected the past eight years by the Obama administration, Vaughan said. Theyre changing the message to people who are thinking about coming here illegally.

Notably missing from the guidelines is any change to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which allows young people brought to the USA illegally as children to stay and obtain work permits. Trump harshly criticized the program on the campaign trail last year but said at a recent press conference that he would show great heart toward the program. The program, initiated by the Obama administration in 2012, has protected about 750,000 immigrants.

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Mark Silverman,senior staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a pro-immigrant rights group based in San Francisco, said the guidelines outlined in the memo were very disturbing and draconian, particularly the section about prosecuting parents trying to bring their children to the USA.Recruiting local law enforcementto help persecute illegal immigrants would also result in widespread violations of civil liberties, he said.

Essentially, this memo is implementing the inhumane and nonsensical scapegoating of immigrants, especially Latinos, for problems in this country which they did not create, Silverman said.

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The guidelines also call for the border wall to begin construction, instructing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to immediately begin planning, design, construction and maintenance of a wall, including the attendant lighting, technology (including sensors), as well as patrol and access roads, although funding for the walls construction and maintenance still needs approval by Congress.

In a statement, Joanne Lin, American Civil Liberties Union senior legislative council, called the enforcement plans a breach of due process, human decency and common sense and vowed to fight them.

The Trump administration is intent on inflicting cruelty on millions of immigrant families across the country, she said.

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Carrying signs and demanding an end to immigration raids, thousands of protesters descended on downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to march in support of immigrant rights.

Crowds of protesters taking part in an event billed as the Free the People immigration march gathered at 11 a.m. at Pershing Square, then made their way to Los Angeles City Hall, by way of Broadway, with people filling the streets several blocks at a time, eventually gathering on the steps of City Hall and in Grand Park.

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Miguel Mendez, 15, carried his younger brother, who waved an American flag, on his shoulder as he marched down Broadway.

I have an illegal father, Mendez said. My biggest fear is for my little brother to grow up without a dad, for him not to experience what I experienced, growing up with my dad.

Mendez said his father, now 40 years old, crossed through the desert from Mexico with his grandmother as a 5-year-old.

The family depends on the father, who runs a demolition business, to be one of the breadwinners, along with his mother, a paralegal, he said.

The recent news of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been on the forefront of his mind, he added.

I start overthinking, he said. I get sad, and it scares me.

Jessica Ortiz, 37, of Riverside says she is supporting sanctuary for undocumented immigrants because my parents migrated here. Ive seen them work hard and make their way up. This is my way of paying back and contributing to their cause.

Ortiz is a government employee who works in the welfare office and says, I know for a fact that illegal immigrants arent on welfare. They dont qualify for benefits.

It bothers me that part of the argument against immigrants is that theyre taking our resources, but they really arent.

Organizers of the march also were demanding that local leaders officially designate Los Angeles a sanctuary city and issued a declaration that read, Many local elected officials have demonstrated a lack of urgency while riding the wave of the mass anti-Trump movement. Some have tossed around the term sanctuary without working towards meaningful sanctuary policies to protect and promote the welfare of the people of Los Angeles. Some others (notably, Mayor Garcetti) have been buckling to Trumps empty threats to defund sanctuary cities.

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Henry Willis called on Garcetti to step up.

Hes running away from the problem, the 64-year-old labor attorney said. Thats not a profile in courage.

His wife, Debbie, 64, a graphic designer, added that the immigrants need to hear it from him (Garcetti), that hes got their backs.

I dont know who it is hes trying to placate by not saying that were a sanctuary city, but everybody believes we are anyway he might as well say it, she said.

The gathering was organized in protest of President Donald Trump, who has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

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Shortly after taking office, Trump moved forward on his campaign promises by signing two sweeping executive orders on immigration, which called for building a border wall, cutting federal funding to sanctuary cities that protect undocumented immigrants, and banning entry into the U.S. of people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Saturdays march followed an ICE operation earlier this month that resulted in 161 arrests in six Southern California counties.

The arrests were part of a nationwide effort to deport criminals who are in the country illegally. Immigration activists have said the sweeps were part of the Trump administrations hard-line stance on undocumented immigrants, though ICE officials denied it.

On Monday, protesters are expected to take part in another anti-Trump march called the Not My Presidents Day rally.

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Undocumented immigrants in the US are jumping the border into Canada, where they hope theyll be treated more humanely than under the Trump administration, according to reports.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are citing an influx of illegal border crossings, especially into Quebec province from upstate New York, according to a National Public Radio report.

One of the biggest entry points is from the small town of Champlain, where the Mounties patrol the other side and arrest the travelers as they come over.

But the immigrants are often released within 24 hours and can live in the country while pressing their immigration cases.

Witnesses told NPR that whole families can be seen approaching the border and willingly getting arrested.

Theyll be walking down the road with suitcases and backpacks, one witness, Matthew Turner, said.

The station witnessed a woman with a baby and a black suitcase walking toward the Canadian officers from the New York side on Wednesday.

You have to go through the, the custom, the borderbut if you do cross here, youll be arrested and then well take you in charge, OK? the officer told the woman, according to the report.

The woman nodded and stepped toward the mounted officers, who offered to help carry her baby and then helped her cross over, the report said.

Cpl. Camille Habel, a spokeswoman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told NPR theres been quite an increase in people walking through illegally.

She said after the border-crosser is arrested, they can be detained for up to 24 hours before theyre released or presented in front of a judge.

Immigrants may be avoiding official entry points because they risk being turned away or given over to US authorities.

The illegal crossings are happening all along the Canadian border, but the largest influx is into Quebec, according to NPR.

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