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Are used to, you know, immigration or immigration issues. as a matter of fact, our latest poll here in arizona shows that the border wall in arizona where weve been talking about the border wall for years is quite unpopular. and is not being supported by the general public here in arizona. so i think what we should really focus on is whether this is good law enforcement. its not good law enforcement that casts such a wide net. all youre going to do is create a system where people are hiding from...

States marshals to oxford, mississippi, to escort a young black man, james meredith, to enroll at ol miss. its what led united sta that is camilla harris speak out about the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general. >> to re-sign rather than doing the bidding of a corrupt president during watergate. it is what led eric holder to sue the state of arizona over sb-1070. a law that led to the unjust racial profiling of immigrants and to say to the united states government would no longer d...

Unreliable and inefficient use of resources. >> it actually made genuine efforts at trying to combat terrorism more difficult by destroying relationships with immigrant communities and actually negatively impacting the ability of the federal government to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism. >> reporter: the screening of people from certain high-risk countries is just the hard of the aclus problems with kobach. hes spoken before groups considered to be white nationalists. he...

Destroying relationships with immigrant communities and actually negatively impacting the ability of the federal government to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism. >> reporter: the screening of people from certain high risk countries is just a start of the aclus problems. kobac has spoken before groups critics consider to be white nationalists, has pushed for very strict immigration laws in at least six states, was the architect behind arizonas controversial state bill 1070 ...

Nationalists pushed for strict immigration laws in six states, he was the architect behind arizonas state bill 1070 which allows police to ask for immigration papers for anyone who looks like they might be from another country. he has been sued half a dozen times over his policies against illegal immigrants. the aclu says, if trump follows his advice they expect to file many more lawsuits. >> our focus is on his policies and on the abject failure of those policies to respect the constitution and...

To say donald trumps victory sent tremors across the border to mexico is an underser statement. already preparing for the possibility of mass deportations given donald trumps promises to send back or jail millions of illegal immigrants when he becomes president. joined now by helping to craft the immigration policy. he helped write arizonas kroempl sb-1070. secretary, thank you so much for being with us and i want to start by talking about what your president-elect, what hes said about his plans...

Filling the top spots with the people they find acceptable. >> we are trying to root out extremism and people are playing a role who concern us. the architect of sb 1070 that incredibly harsh law in arizona. >> do you think its time to give donald trump a chance? do you think we need to give him a chance to see what he will do? >> donald trump has to renounce racism and tell the public that no one with ties to extremists will have a in his administration. >> thank you for being here. we end with...

>> kris kobach, he is racial profiling in flesh and blood. he was the author of s.b. 1070. that the supreme court gutted and said that it was illegal because it was racial profiling and you have no idea how many people in arizona that were u.s. citizens got swept up in being identified simply by the way they looked. everybody right now in the united states, your alarm should be going on, because my mother always said you are who your friends are, because we have individual who is stay they are m...

Its interesting that he gave that speech in arizona because arizona is a very important state and even though donald trump is up in the polls, the hispanic vote could make a huge difference. theyre more than 21% of the electorate and theres been huge movement in people come have become citizens in registering to vote. let me tell you an okayeanecdot about arizona. there was an increase in 165% of latinos who registered to vote and lets remember also that russell pierce was voted out of office be...

Citizens, registering to vote and getting out and vote. let me tell you an anecdote about arizona, after hb-1070, the anti-immigrant law, there was an increase of 165% of latinos who registered to vote. lets remember also that russell pierce was voted out of office because of hb-1070. so i really think that thats going to have an impact. the fact that he speaks spanish, of course, might not, although a lot of people see it as a form of respect and attention to our culture but not necessarily a r...