anti-latino anti-latino, and all of these incidents basically create hostile atmospheres on campuses for minority students and it s something we need to address. what is that about? why is it okay? like you said you just listed a bunch of examples there of these types of at the very least racially insensitive situations happening at fraternities and seemingly it s acceptable because they keep on doing it. why do they think it s acceptable? i don t think it s acceptable. i don t think the people actually think it s acceptable. i ve been to 600 different colleges and universities and seen greek advisers greek life offices work think behinds off trying to stem these types of incidents. you have to remember a lot of these kids are coming from general society. the incidents themselves are kind of like the symptoms. when we have things such as when african-american students and minority students in general are marginalized on campus for example, i think on the university of oklahoma camp
what is to politically scaring about immigration? shutting down the government, we ve performed at this rodeo before, haven t we? we know how it turns out. the reason president obama and the democrats want to fight about this is because they know that it s a fight they will win. and so that is why you hear charles and others saying that s not the way to go. i m in agreement with him. i don t think this is the way to go because president obama knows he ll have the media in his corner and he can present republicans as being anti-latino, anti-family. that is exactly what he wants. so republicans need to start passing wildly popular bills that have over 70% of support like a border security bill. they need to keep forcing democrats to vote on that and keep forcing president obama. isn t that the problem? i was going to refer to you, andrea, on this. we re looking at choices to try to prevent this from going through but why aren t we
in the void that we have of leadership on this issue, his voice is the loudest. that s dangerous for the gop. and i think the more these type of comments are out there, unfortunately for the republican party, steve king is the latest in these voices that everyone is very aware of. from jan brewer to mitt romney and the deportation going back to pete wilson in california. and it is a very anti-immigrant, anti-latino message. the gop image problem with latinos. that s why you have to go beyond that and figure out, who are the new voices? who does boehner want next week up on the dais with him? it is trying to empower more reasonable voices. i appreciate your points. coming up, the accomplish
what s your reaction to schumer s threat? well, we have seen the democrats are always willing to play the race card. i will tell you as the son of a cuban immigrant as someone who received over 40% of hispanic vote in the state of texas, i think it is con descending to go to hispanics and say we are going to buy your vote with amnesty. in texas a whole lot of hispanics there want to see the border secured and legal immigration. laura: they want lower wages, senator this is what this bill is going to give them. lower wages, latino americans, news flash. well, you are exactly right. one of the most striking elements of this is the obama care penalty under the gang of 8 bill, any business that is 50 employees or more that hires a u.s. citizen or illegal immigrant because of obama care effectively pays a $5,000 penalty and it s de facto affirmative action for those here illegally. that doesn t make any sense. laura: they get a leg up in hiring because you don t have to pay their ob
state of texas. i m not looking to bring home the bacon. i think what texans expected me to do and what americans expect all of us to be doing is try to fix the problem. stop doing politics as usual. actually secure the border. stop illegal immigration and improve our legal immigration system so we can welcome and celebrate legal immigrants. immigrants like my dad when he came 55 years ago, following the rules. we need to improve the legal system and secure our borders now. laura: your colleague senator schumer is issuing essentially an implicit warning to the house of representatives. he said he could envision a million people coming to the mall to protest if, in fact, john boehner doesn t include a path to citizenship, if boehner tries to slow walk this process. that was a warning to not only boehner but to people like you senator cruz that you will be labeled anti-latino, anti-immigrant, anti-whatever to try to scare people to going along with a bad bill.