mexico. assistant designation may be largely symbolic and unlikely the impact the flow of drugs. julia kelly on a reports from the capital mexico city. so they are now designated is terrorist organizations foreign and mexico probably doesn't want that. it's true that this was probably not how mexico wanted to start the new bilateral relationship with us president donald trump or his decision to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations. gifts, the us government, broader power to use military action against these criminal groups and new legal tools to target their financial interest. the thing is, most of those measures were already part of existing entry narcotics policy. experts argue drug cartels don't work the same way as traditional terrorist organizations or respond to the same deterrence. what sustains the dropped rate is that the meant so the, the profitability of the dropped rate. in fact, it exponentially increases with a punitive measures. the. c a, these type of policies entail. no one in mexico disagrees. the cartels so terror. their grip from the country permeates almost

tijuana law, preparing for a search of arrivals as the drum carries out as mass people taishan plan. julia kelly on it is one of those reception centers. the mexican officials unveiled the 1st of what they expect to be. several of these receptionist centers designed to welcome mexican, the forty's. the spaces are expected to provide shelter, food, medical attention, and logistical coordination for those new parties looking to go to their hometown or whatever they decide to do in the immediate future. each is expected to house several 1000 people and just getting them back who moved so they will arrive under a great deal of stress because of the situation they've been living through here, they'll find a space for advice support and anything else they need to make the decision to go back to their places of origin where across the mexican border cities, including see that what is they know set and my, the model is 9 similar spaces are being prepared for the expected in slots of deportees in the coming days. and i want to emphasize the word expected, because while there has been an increase in us go

we're going to speak to julia kelly on there who is in mexico city and i believe the president has just begun speaking. what does she sense? so thought she's actually expected to come out over the next hour. she's not here yet, but as you can see, thousands and thousands of people have gathered here waiting for her to come out. a lot of these people are most of these people and anybody else listening to her throughout the country is especially keen. as you mentioned, to hear about the security strategies. moving forward 2024 ended in mexico with an average of of 70 homicides a day. still very high numbers, there's different states in the country, both in the north and the south of the country that are currently consumed by filing full blown wars essentially are going on between the different drug cartels that are buying for control of the territory. so definitely that i think is going to be at the forefront of her speech today. there is a sense of hold for some that the representative acknowledging this issue more so than her predecessors. and that's one way to know business appointed h

. >> thank you, kelly. juliaanding who can be deported. >> reporter: it's something i reported five minutes ago and there's more news, kate. let me jump to what we're looking at. there was a new executive order put out that suspend the entry of aliens engaged in what he calls is an invasion of the united states. there aren't a lot of details here except he wants to suspend the physical entry. does he want to bring back remain in mexico? that's something he said he would do. remain in mexico allows people to have an appointment. we also know that he wants to expand expedited removal. anyone who was arrested by border patrol or i.c.e. who can't prove they've been in the united states for more than two years and can't make an initial claim for asylum could be deported without going to a court. that allows the trump administration to get around the massive backlogged immigration courts that have over 3 million cases before them. he also wants more active duty troops at the southern border. another announcement we got

julia, thank you so much. very quickly, kelly, a lot of these homes, they have an environmental risk score, with realtors. some of the homes in the palisades had a risk score at 5 out of 10. >> i mean, i've heard even higher. core logic had at vp of theirs joining us on the show. by core logic's own score, it was an 80 out of 100, but he still lived there. he said, i walk my kids to school down the block. they're aware of these risks, and the risks are probably even higher than what's being reflected in that data. >>> after the break, call it salt in the wound. trump promising relief to xper b se y he may already be backtracking. we'll hear from new jersey frank pallone about the salt deduction cap, coming up. (uh-oh) producer : yeah, schwab lets you invest and trade on your own. and if you want they can even manage it for you. not to mention, schwab has a team of specialists for taxes, insurance, and estate planning. both producers: all with low fees. carl: we're experiencing technical difficulties... uh, carl... schwab! schwab.

julia. >> well kelly the wall street journal is.meta is considering re-incorporating in texas or another state in exiting delaware. now i've reached out to meta for comment. and they say that this is not true. meta telling me there are no plans to move the company's corporate headquarters from california, but we have no additional comment. now, corporate headquarters is different from re-incorporating because right now meta's headquarters are in california, but the company is incorporated like many companies in delaware. now, this move would be similar to the move that elon musk made, who moved to reincorporate his companies in texas and nevada. so certainly something we're watching. but meta saying that they are not moving their headquarters outside of california. back over to you. >> a couple of thoughts, julie, on this. number one, when zuckerberg made that big announcement a few weeks ago about content moderation and all the changes, he did mention they were going to move the it's no longer fact checking team, the moderators, or

let's bring in nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell, nbc's priscilla thompson from el paso, texas, and nbc's julia ainsley from our washington newsroom. kelly, what more do we know about trump expanding deportation authority to agencies beyond just ice? what is striking about this is that this is a sweeping change to the kind of roles that these federal law enforcement officers would play. for example, if you had a dea agent, they might be involved in an immigration case. if there was a component of drugs to it or an atf agent that might be involved. if there are guns associated with it. this is trying to use these federal officers in a broader way to engage them on immigration cases and to give them the authority to assist in deportation. part of the thinking, historically, has been that often these officers from different agencies need to have an ability to work in communities and to engage with the people on the ground who might be able to help them with their investigations. and so the issue of immigration status could sometimes get in the way of that, in the pursuit of other kinds of law enfo

kelly? >> is it fair to say, julia, big sports implications?definitely a testament to the importance of sports. not only for the subscription business, but also for the advertising business. and i'm sure mark douglas has much more to say about that. but when you look at what the most valuable content is for advertisers, particularly when it comes to live, sports is number one. we see that in terms of the ratings. we see that in sterms of netflix and amazon all increasing their investment in live sport. i think that's what this is really about. it bolsters the value of what disney has been doing in the sports arena. >> over to you, mr. douglas. what do you kind of think are the implications here? >> well, i think we're starting the year, it's like julia just says, sports, sports, sport. so i think that everything about streaming just seems to keep going towards sports. so that's a good thing. espn as she mentioned and so forth. but i think also like disney kind of gets a free play here. they want an independent sports network. now they essential

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julia ainsley, thank you so much. and joining us now is arizona's democratic senator, mark kelly, a former u.s. astronaut commander who now serves on the intelligence and armed services committees. senator, thank you very much. good to see you. and first, i guess i want to ask you about the us military. do you think that they can provide a useful role sending active duty troops to the southern border? do you think they're needed? >> well, andrea, right. now at the border in arizona, i represent a border state. border security is incredibly important to me. when you look at the numbers today. compared to where they were at the end of trump's first administration, they're lower now. so these are border crossings. the border. you know, it gets chaotic at times. the numbers go up. they go down. what we need is our lasting solutions to the border security problems that we face. and we're going to get that hopefully by democrats and republicans working together on this issue to provide some lasting solutions. >> and you have been such an advocate for a bipartisan immigration law. of course, we know w