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Friend. >> and he built a political machine. >> he has a machine. he also has responsibilities as a republican leader. some of that takes you a lot of time outside of your district and its still very important if you can to spend as much time listening to people, looking them eye to eye, hearing their views and just from the comments on my facebook page, this amnesty issue was a big one. the negative comments about eric were overwhelmingly on this amnesty issue and republicans blea believe in th...

You said the amnesty issue is symbolic powerful expression about the difference between eric cantor and i on jobs. cantor is saying we should bring more folks to the country n-crease the labor supply and by doing so lower wage rates for the working person. his policies make no sense. how big an issue do you think the immigration issue was in this campaign? >> well, i think its big. its the most symbolic issue that captures the differences between myself and eric cantor in this race, but it also ...

Immigration reform until they have answered some real fundamental questions about some issues they have not been very responsible with, like the irs, like benghazi, like obamacare, like nsa. lets see a little bit of competence on something before we even begin to talk about giving them something as big and wide as immigration reform. >> governor there was word out that a group of g.o.p. -- a group from the g.o.p. was floating the idea of allow something amnesty for some illegal children. is this...

There are many things we have planned to do and we are definitely not on vacation. we are working extremely hard right now. >> are you networking with other tea party groups across the country or is yours just localized to richmond? >> no, we are. the events we have coming up within the next week, we are working with a tea party group from maryland. we are working with the national tea party patriots this next week and three other conservative organizations. we are coalition building with other ...

>> i think thats the case with many of them. but neither do they want these workers deported. the agricultural industry desperately needs migrant farm workers. construction industry needs them, the hospitality industry needs them. so the idea that you would deport them is counter to what most businesses want, certainly small businesses. but they certainly dont want them to be able to be organized and have the right to speak out by joining organized labor or even having the rights of citizenship....

seven-point lead over former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. and among tea party supporters in the hawkeye state, gingrich is now the runaway favorite. now the question -- did gingrich put all of that at risk last night when he walked into the wiquick sand of republican politics. how to treat millions of illegal immigrants. >> im prepared to take the heat for saying, lets be humane and enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so tha...

You said the amnesty issue is symbolic powerful expression about the difference between eric cantor and i on jobs. cantor is saying we should bring more folks to the country n-crease the labor supply and by doing so lower wage rates for the working person. his policies make no sense. how big an issue do you think the immigration issue was in this campaign? >> well, i think its big. its the most symbolic issue that captures the differences between myself and eric cantor in this race, but it also ...

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Deport them is counter to what most businesses want, certainly small businesses. but they certainly dont want them to be able to be organized and have the right to speak out by joining organized labor or even having the rights of citizenship. right now theyre powerless to speak back. thats what they want. >> thats what they do. >> thats the issue. thats right. >> you give amnesty. or if you get a pathway to citizenship, these low-wage workers, especially in the service industry are going to go r...

>> you give amnesty. or if you get a pathway to citizenship, these low-wage workers, especially in the service industry are going to go right into unions, thats exactly what the conservatives are concerned about, thats what the corporations are concerned about. this was newt gingrichs response after michele bachmann pressed the amnesty issue last night. >> i dont see how the party that says its the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been...