California water authorities will stop the outflow from the Oroville Dam's crippled spillway to allow workers to remove debris blocking a hydroelectric plant from working, officials said Sunday.

The Department of Water Resources said it will start gradually reducing outflows from the Northern California dam beginning Monday morning and completely halt them by the afternoon.

The outflow from behind the 770-foot-tall dam will be stopped for several days to allow workers to clear concrete, silt and other debris from a pool at the bottom of the spillway. Removing the debris will protect a shuttered underground hydroelectric plant and allow it to eventually resume operations, the agency said.

"Once operational, the Hyatt Power Plant can discharge roughly 14,000 cubic feet per second, which will allow DWR to better manage reservoir levels through the remaining spring runoff season," it said.

The reservoir's water level has been reduced nearly 60 feet since it reached capacity at 901 feet earlier this month, the department said.

The department said it will continue releasing 50,000 cubic feet of water per second the rest of Sunday and overnight. With inflows of water at only 25,000 cubic feet of water per second, more space will be made at the reservoir before the outflows are cut on Monday.

On Feb. 11, water managers used the emergency spillway for the first time in the dam's 48-year-history after a chunk of concrete tore out the main spillway, creating a 200-foot-long, 30-foot-deep crater. But the flow of water ripped through a road below and carved out deep chasms in the ground, leading authorities to order a two-day evacuation of 188,000 people for fear the emergency spillway could fail.

Since then, crews have been working to fortify the badly eroded emergency spillway.

Two years after the loss of Melba Bishop, a former San Diego congresswoman, her family is struggling with the same pain again.

“Joel was a son, a brother, an uncle, a nephew, a father,” Joel Bishop’s brother Lucky, the oldest of the four Bishop brothers tells NBC 7.

Bishop, 45, was fatally shot near Buccaneer Park in Oceanside Friday.

“Sleeping has been hard,” Lucky says. “It’s tough.”

Bishop was found on South Myers Street and later died at the hospital. His family says they are still reeling from his mother losing her battle with cancer two years before.

Melba Bishop left a legacy in San Diego, helping to redevelop downtown and finish the Oceanside Civic Center.

“She would want us to love each other and take care of each other, and that's what she'd want,” he says.

Oceanside Councilmember Jerome Kern released a statement about Joel Bishop’s death, saying: “My heart goes out to the family during this difficult loss, especially since it comes so soon after the death of his mother.

Oceanside mayor Jim Wood's office released a statement as well that read: “Very saddened to hear of Joel’s death. They sent the family their condolences.”

“Loss is always hard,” Lucky says. “He meant a lot to us.”

Lucky wanted those who helped his brother in his last moments to know one thing.

“Thank you for just being there when I couldn’t be. Thank you.”

Hector Galvez and Jamie Radloff were arrested for homicide hours after the shooting. 

Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" — not, as it turned out, "La La Land" — won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset and an unprecedented fiasco that saw one winner swapped for another while the "La La Land" producers were in mid-speech.

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Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway apparently took the wrong envelope — the one for best actress winner Emma Stone — onto the stage. When they realized the mistake, representatives for ballot tabulators PricewaterhousCoopers (PwC) raced onstage to stop the acceptance speech.

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But backstage, Stone said she was holding her envelope at the time of the announcement. "I think everyone's in a state of confusion still," said Stone. Later the actress, who pledged her deep love of "Moonlight," added, "Is that the craziest Oscar moment of all time? Cool!"

Early Monday, PwC released a statement on Twitter to apologize for the gaff. 

"The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected," PwC wrote. "We are currently investigating how this could have happened."

The group added: "We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation."

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It was, nevertheless, a shocking upset considering that "La La Land" came in with 14 nominations, a record that tied it with "Titanic" and "All About Eve."

Barry Jenkins' tender, bathed-in-blue coming-of-age drama, made for just $1.5 million, is an unusually small Oscar winner. Having made just over $22 million as of Sunday at the box office, it's one of the lowest-grossing best-picture winners ever.

"Even in my dreams this cannot be true," said an astonished Jenkins, once he reached the stage.

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Host Jimmy Kimmel had come forward to inform the cast that "Moonlight" had indeed won, showing the inside of the envelope as proof. "I knew I would screw this up," said Kimmel, a first-time host. "I promise to never come back."

"La La Land" producer Jordan Horwitz then graciously passed his statue to the "Moonlight" producers.

Three men robbed Santana's Mexican Food in Lemon Grove around 2:30 a.m.

Deputies say the men were armed with a shotgun, hammer and bat. 

The robbery was recorded on a surveillance camera. 

The restaurant, located on Palm Street, is open 24-hours. 

NBC7 spoke to one employee, who said he is okay. 

No other information was available.

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Former President George W. Bush said Monday he believes in a "welcoming" immigration policy, called freedom of religion a bedrock freedom and forcefully defended the media as "indispensable to democracy."

In speaking out in an interview on NBC's "Today" show, Bush also didn't categorically rule out that a special prosecutor could be needed to investigate contacts between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government.

"Today" host Matt Lauer asked Bush several questions about Trump and his policies, and while Bush didn't criticize the president, whom he noted has been in office for just one month, he did offer positions on religion, immigration, the fight against ISIS and the press that run at odds with views Trump has recently espoused.

Bush did not make an endorsement in the presidential election and did not vote for president, a spokesman has said.

Trump is expected to issue this week a revised version of his controversial travel ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries. 

"A bedrock of our freedom is the right to worship freely," Bush said when asked about the travel ban, which a federal court stayed amid widespread legal challenges.

Bush went on to say that members of ISIS shouldn't be considered religious people if they cut off the heads of innocent people, and he called the conflict with them an ideological one.

But he seemed to imply that the U.S. is already making its offensive against ISIS harder by insisting on the travel ban. He said, "I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat," when Lauer asked about the ban and the fight against ISIS.

Bush alluded to the consequences that leaving a conflict can have. He presided over the second U.S. invasion of Iraq, which removed Saddam Hussein from power but left the country split by sectarian violence, which ISIS exploited soon after its founding and spread through the country's north — a force the Iraqi military is still battling with in the major city of Mosul.

Asked specifically if he was for or against Trump's ban, he said, "I am for an immigration policy that is welcoming and upholds the law."

While Trump spent the beginning of his most recent major speech, at CPAC, attacking the "fake news," a label he's given to outlets like NBC News and The New York Times, Bush called the media "indispensable to democracy."

"Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse power, whether it be here or elsewhere," he said.

Bush noted that he tried as president to have Russian President Vladimir Putin embrace a free press, and said that it's harder to insist upon that value abroad if it there isn't one at home.

When Lauer asked Bush if he'd be in favor of a special prosecutor looking into possible links between Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government, Bush said, "I think we all need answers."

But he did not know if a special prosecutor was the right way to go about finding those answers. He said that if Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, were to recommend a special prosecutor, that would "have a lot more credibility with me."

Bush was on the "Today" show to discuss his new book of paintings and stories of U.S. veterans called "Portraits of Courage."

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the San Diego Sector are apprehending more immigrants from countries other than Mexico, despite the city’s proximity to the country.

For several years, the number of Mexican nationals crossing the border into the U.S. illegally has gone down, according to the Pew Research Center.

But agents have seen a recent increase in the apprehension of immigrants from countries other than Mexico, also known as “OTMs.”

For fiscal year 2016, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 190,760 immigrants from Mexico compared to 218,110 immigrants from countries other than Mexico (OTMs) along the Southwest Border.

San Diego sector Border Patrol Agent James Nielsen says a majority of their apprehensions locally are still Mexican nationals, but in 2015, San Diego sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,000 OTMs.

That number grew to more than 6,000 in 2016. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent James Nielsen said the agency is on track to pass that number this year.

Nielsen said the OTMs are coming from all across the world.

“Central America; China; Romania; India; Pakistan; I mean, all over,” he explained.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) San Diego said the most recent apprehensions of OTMs from Oct 1, 2016. to Jan. 31 include:

• Guate: 1,716 OTMs
• Elsal: 749 OTMs
• Hondo: 471 OTMs
• India: 306 OTMs
• Nepal: 238 OTMs

“I’ve also come across ‘Other Than Mexicans’ who actually present themselves to us,” Nielsen told NBC 7. “So, I would be driving the road and there’s a group of four people and they’re waving me down and they can be claiming political asylum or whatever you have – religious – they’re claiming asylum of some kind."

Dr. Katrina Burgess, of the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigrant Studies, said the people who try to cross the border illegally often risk it all to do so.

“Spend a few minutes to read about the journey these people have taken,” she said. “You do not do this lightly; they’re really risking their lives."

Burgess said the increase in OTMs show her that President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including building a border wall to separate the U.S. from Mexico, may be targeting a problem that’s no longer there.

“Migration of Mexicans to the United States is falling,” she explained. “The apprehensions of Mexicans are at the lowest level in 50 years. Some of our rhetoric and proposed solutions are stuck in the past.”

A wet, damp and windy day was in the cards for San Diego Monday.

Several light showers were moving through San Diego County from the coastline to Julian as of 6 a.m. Rain was expected to increase through midday with some showers expected Monday evening.

“Plenty more on the way and some of it will be heavy,” NBC 7 Meteorologist Jodi Kodesh said. “You’ll need an umbrella – a sturdy one.”

The National Weather Service said a low pressure system from the northwest will tap a plume of subtropical moisture directed into northern Baja to bring periods of locally heavy rainfall from late this morning into early this evening.

One to 3 inches of rain are in the forecast.

A flash flood watch was in effect beginning at 8 a.m. through 10 p.m. Monday.

At least two dozen collisions caused delays in the first two hours of the morning commute Monday.

On southbound I-15 at the connector to westbound SR-52, a light pole was in one of the lanes after several cars collided. One car drove up an embankment and struck the light pole. One patient needed emergency medical attention.

On northbound I-805 at Adams, the CHP worked on a solo vehicle crash where the car ended up on the other side of the K-rail. No one was injured.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death reported in Valley Center Monday.

Deputies responded to Cole Grade Road just north of Fruitvale Road just before 7:30 a.m. for what was reported as a battery.

When they arrived, they found a person dead. No arrests have been made.

The location is near two elementary schools, a library and a recreation center.

No other information was available.

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Donald Trump once seemed to like government leaks, praising WikiLeaks during his campaign and inviting Russia for president to find State Department-related emails missing from Hillary Clinton's private email server, NBC News reported.

Now, the president fumes about "un-American" leaks coming from his administration, including ones that led to the ouster of national security adviser Michael Flynn within a month of Trump taking office.

But leaks have been a major part of American history, starting with Benjamin Franklin passing letters from the colonial governor of Massachusetts to revolutionaries and including the Watergate scandal that took down Richard Nixon.

"We have a very long history of leaks in this country," University of North Carolina law professor Mary-Rose Papandrea said. "It's almost a long-standing tradition."

Grammy-winning musician Jason Mraz shared his world-renowned talent and passion for the arts with students at Burbank Elementary in Barrio Logan on Friday.
The North County resident is active in the federally funded, public-private Turnaround Arts program that provides instruments, art supplies and classes to struggling schools and underprivileged students.
NBC 7 had special access to his recent visit.
Mraz says he goes twice a year to Burbank Elementary since the program started there three years ago.
He said he hopes he can instill in the children, whose exposure to the arts is limited or none at all, the courage to dream and develop the skills to make those dreams come true.

Determination took one cancer patient from a hospital bed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and inspired others — including her doctor — to join her.

When Lila Javan was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 2010, she started chemotherapy, got a stem cell transplant from her sister and eventually regained her health. Then, nearly five years later as she was planning to book a climbing trip to Africa, she went to a routine checkup and learned her cancer had returned.

"At first, [Mt. Kilimanjaro] didn't have much significance," Javan, a 39-year–old filmmaker, said. "I wanted to visit that part of Africa. When I started going through the treatment, it became so much more. It represented my cancer diagnosis."

A friend made a poster of Kilimanjaro through a window and put it up in her hospital room. Climbing Kilimanjaro became a goal and Javan wanted the doctor who’d helped her fight cancer to climb too.

"She said, 'Will you do this with me,' and I said, 'Absolutely,' because there was all this hope and looking to the future,” Dr. Sarah Larson, an oncologist at UCLA Medical Center told NBC4. “I said yes and I walked out of that room and I thought, 'What did i just do?'"

As Javan’s health improved the women began to train and others soon joined them. A 14-person team of nurses and friends together raised more than $100,000 dollars for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.

"It kind of, not to be cheesy, but it renewed my faith in humanity," Javan said. "The love and support I got back from people just was amazing, and it's what got me through."

Two years later the team made it to the top of Africa’s highest mountain.

"I kept putting one foot in front of the other,” Javan said. “We got to the top and the sun was rising and I saw Sarah and I started to cry. It was the most unbelievable, amazing moment of my life. The fact that we'd all trained together and we're doing this not just for ourselves but for something else made it more significant.”

Javan and her climbing cohort have inspired others to raise money for cancer research through a campaign called Climb2Cure. She is turning her journey into a documentary film and already has her sights set on a new climb: Mount Everest.

Click here to learn more about Javan’s journey or join your own Climb2Cure team.

The pregnancy of New York giraffe April has captivated the world, with millions of people across the globe tuning into a live stream as she prepares for the birth of her fourth calf at an upstate zoo.

But what do we know of the relationship between April and her much younger beau Oliver?

On Monday morning, Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, outside Binghamton, revealed new details about the romance that led to the pregnancy, which has had the world enthralled for days.

It was no secret April was an older woman. At the ripe age of 15, the long-necked beauty has already had three calves to at least one other giraffe.

But for Oliver, who is only 5 years old, this calf is his first.

The park said the two spotted lovers met when Oliver was just a young 3-year-old bull "coming of age." April was 13 at the time.

"The park thought it had only one cougar (LuLu), until April arrived," the zoo joked of the age difference.

A cougar is a term used to describe an older woman who dates younger men.

"Here we are, almost 1 1/2 years later, waiting for their family to grow by one," the zoo said.

It also shared a picture of the couple canoodling on its first meeting at the zoo.

Despite his youth Oliver has showed his maturity, appearing supportive and nuzzling April through her pregnancy. He stood by her when the live stream of her pregnancy was taken down from YouTube after activists complained that she breached the platform's "nudity and sexual content" policies.

But the first-time father had to be separated from April as they frolicked outside Saturday afternoon because he got aggressive and wanted to "rough house."

According to veterinarians, bullish behavior is common for male giraffes during the final stages of pregnancy.

"He does not want to play house -- he wants to ROUGH house," the park wrote in a Facebook post Saturday morning. "That is natural behavior as males take no part in rearing their young, nor have a need for a female once she is pregnant. Sad but true."

Viewers were concerned about the long-necked lovers' separation and questioned the vet's intentions until the zoo offered reassurance and told animal lovers to trust them.

As of Monday, April's pregnancy continued to be streamed online, with the zoo saying the expectant mother was doing well.

The 30^th Annual Koi Show, the largest of its kind on the West Coast, is March 4^th and 5^th at Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Scotty Yee, President of Koi Club of San Diego said, “This is almost like the Westminister of Koi,” equating the Koi Show with the famous Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show.

Over 300 Koi will be on display in competitions, ranging in size from 6 inches to 3 feet long.

“You will see Koi that are 36 inches long and are valued up to $50,000,” said Yee.

The show will feature vendors selling Koi art, Koi T-Shirts, Koi fish of all sizes, ponds and equipment, including solar power for koi ponds.

Admission to the 30^th Annual Koi Show is free. Hours: 9am to 4pm on Saturday March 4^th; 9am to 3pm on Sunday March 5^th. Parking at the Del Mar Fairgrounds is $13.00.

A woman was attacked after arguing with a group while standing outside a nightclub in Pacific Beach Sunday, confirmed San Diego police.

It happened at about 10:15 p.m. on the 1000 block of Garnet Avenue after an argument with a group of people escalated by the club, according to the SDPD. One person in the group lunged forward and stabbed the woman with a sharp object.

The suspect then took off in a dark sedan. Police said no arrests have been made. The victim was taken to the hospital for her injury. 

An investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information about the crime, they can call the police or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.

No further information was immediately available.

Elon Musk announced Monday that his private space transportation company SpaceX will send two private citizens to the moon in late 2018.  

"We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year," his statement read.

Musk said that the two private citizens, whom he did not identify, "have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission." He did not indicate the amount of the deposit.

First, Musk said, SpaceX is on track to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in mid-2018. This moon mission would follow about six months later, using a Dragon crew capsule and a Falcon heavy rocket.

The craft will lift off from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A — the launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions, Musk said.

The moon mission is designed to be autonomous — unless something goes wrong, Musk said. The plan is for the passengers to fly to the moon, but not to land on it.

The private mission will take the travelers around the moon and then back to Earth. Musk said they expect to conduct fitness testing and begin initial training for those embarking on the mission later this year.

Musk calls this planned expedition an "important milestone as we work towards our ultimate goal of transporting humans to Mars."

Parents and educators called on the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) to protect students from what they called devastating budget cuts on Monday.

A conference was held at the San Diego Education Association (SDEA) at about 10 a.m., on the 10300 block of San Diego Mission Road, according to the SDEA. At the meeting, the school district was asked to address budget woes without harming student's educations.

"Right now we're doing everything possible to fight for our educators -- for the services our students deserve," said Carlos Mejia, the Executive Director of SDEA. 

The SDUSD's Board of Trustees will decide on Tuesday whether the district should move forward with significant budget cuts that will eliminate some enriching educational opportunities, special services for vulnerable students and layoff 833 educators, said SDEA officials.

Currently, the proposed cuts are for a worst-case scenario budget that was created by district staff. Educational officials say the district plans to use this budget, even if additional funding for school programs surfaces later.

Educators at the conference expressed outrage that the district is not waiting for a complete picture of all the funding allocated for school expenses, which won't be fully available until June.

They say the district needs to take time to work with everyone and all the different stakeholders to solve the problem.

"We are understanding the fact that this budget doesn't come just overnight," said Mejia, the SDEA Executive Director. "It's a long standing practice so we are going to do everything possible to push the district into making the correct decision."

Mejia says the district has not taken all the necessary actions to ensure there is funding for teachers. He also pointed out that educator pay is below average and there is a teacher shortage in San Diego.

"Students build a connection with their teachers, they build a connection with their educators, with their service providers," said Mejia. "You are putting this on the line, you are risking these relationships."

One parent said she attended the conference to advocate for her son and the important educational programs that allow him to attend school -- programs that may be cut.

"We can't talk about being serious about the success of our kids and our students and developing their educations in a meaningful way, if those needs aren't being met," said Carol Kim at the conference.

"It just drives me nuts that we are constantly being asked to put our schools on the chopping block," Kim added. "I don't understand why we would. This is one of the most important things we do with our tax dollars and the education of our kids."

Kim said she was upset about the lack of transparency in how these budgets are created, and that the district did not give parents an opportunity to respond to these shortfalls in a more timely manner.

Educators say it will be difficult to maintain programs for special needs kids with the proposed cuts. Angry parents and teachers also attended the SDUSD board meeting last week, holding signs to protest the cuts.

"I stayed in the public schools because I truly believe that our public education systems are so tantamount to everything that the American middle class is about," said Kim. "It's the cradle of our middle class, frankly."

In El Paso, Texas, Carmen Ramos and her friends have developed a network to keep each other updated by text message on where immigration checkpoints have been set up.

She also makes sure she does everything by the book. From sticking to the speed limit to keeping a sharp eye on her surroundings, the 41-year-old isn't taking any chances, The Associated Press reported. In 2008, with her husband and three children, Ramos left Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for the United States to escape drug violence and death threats. But their tourist visas has since expired.

"We are surprised that even a ticket can get us back to Mexico," Ramos told the AP. "We wouldn't have anywhere to return."

The new executive order that President Donald Trump signed his first week in office takes a harsh line on immigration, one that may lead to the deterrence of immigrants' participation in public life. With undocumented immigrants under the threat of deportation by local authorities, experts say it is likely that they will shy away from any situation that may require their personal information.

"I think what we’re going to see are immigrants receding from public life in lots of ways," Lee Gelernt, a civil rights lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union told NBC. "That includes not accessing emergency services and not reporting crimes they witness, which are not good for the community as a whole."

Gelernt said ACLU lawyers will challenge aspects of the executive order as they are rolled out, but for now the order has taken the form of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The ACLU is trying to determine if there have been any civil rights violations, such as racial profiling or excessive force, during these raids.

The Department of Homeland Security is taking measures to enact the sweeping actions that Trump's executive order involves. 

Although Trump has said repeatedly that the country is focused on "getting the bad ones" out of the country, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly directed ICE agents to expand their pool of undocumented immigrants to prioritize for deportation. 

In the statement issued last week about the order, the department announced it would "not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” meaning that law enforcement officials can detain an undocumented immigrant who has committed an offense of any kind. In 2014, former President Barack Obama implemented guidelines for deporting unauthorized immigrants that focused on gang members and convicted felons.

Kelly also directed ICE to partner with state and local authorities to investigate, apprehend and detain immigrants.

"We don't want there to be this overwhelming sense of fear or panic in these communities," DHS press secretary Gillian Christensen said. "When you look at the executive order, it's still the top priority to detain people who pose a threat to public safety or national security."

Christensen also noted that undocumented immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progam are exempt from the executive order. 

But lawyers and advocates are warning those immigrants not to enroll in DACA for fear their information will be used to deport them, according to The Washington Post. 

And some reported incidences suggest that ICE is taking a strict approach in its detention of immigrants. On Monday, The New York Times reported that Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco, a well-respected restaurant owner in Illinois, was detained by authorities without a specific reason, but immigration officials noted his two drunk-driving convictions from 2007.

Another undocumented immigrant in Fort Worth, Texas, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in early February while in an ICE detention center but was returned to the center following a short stint in the hospital. The Daily Beast reported that 26-year-old immigrant crossed the border in 2015 in search of work and asylum from her native country, El Salvador. And Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos was deported to Mexico a few weeks ago after her immigration check-in—her eighth since her 2008 conviction for using a fake Social Security number to get work, CNN reported.

"Targeted enforcement, focused on actual national security threats, makes sense," William Stock, president of American Immigration Lawyers Association, said in a statement. "However, these memos, which seem to treat everyone as an enforcement priority, aren't going to make us safer, and they are already causing fear in communities across the nation."

Immigrants in the Chicago area have told the AP that they are scared to drive, and some are even wary of taking public transit. When Chicago police and federal authorities conducted regular safety checks on a train line earlier this month, many assumed it was an immigration checkpoint.

Word spread so quickly that Chicago police issued a statement assuring immigrants, "You are welcome here."

Gelernt expressed concern that the presence of the ICE agents during raids and arrests could instill fear in undocumented immigrants.

"Even if ICE is not making arrests at any moment their mere presence is going to create anxiety and fear," he said.

Michele Lamont, a Harvard professor and cultural sociologist who specializes in race, inequality and immigration, said that it would be natural for undocumented immigrants to fall into the shadows because of their perceived "undesirable" status.

"They know how they may be perceived by other Americans," she said. "The assumption that they're not good members of society can push people away from their own communities. If you know the likelihood that you will be outed, then of course privatization will be the natural reaction."

Lamont also said that Trump's executive order will likely come with "a lot of unintended consequences."

Last month's raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL as well as multiple children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News.

While Pentagon officials have said the raid produced "actionable intelligence," senior officials who spoke to NBC News said they were unaware of any.

The father of the dead SEAL questioned the premise of the raid in an interview with the Miami Herald published Sunday.

"Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn't even barely a week into [President Trump's] administration?" Bill Owens, whose youngest son Ryan was killed during the raid, said.