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Do you feel like the president should be holding out for a border wall like this? would you rather see yourself getting back to work. >> i would rather see us get back to work to be honest with you. policies aside, there are ways to go about business and open the government as opposed to holding me and my colleagues hostage in a way. i think anything on this scale needs to be talked about when the government is open, not before or after. thank you for joining us. critics are arguing that the p...

Where we are with this negotiabling with daca. >> i think it breaking up a big immigration battle. immigration has been one of the m most vexing policy debates in the last decade. the president knows that he has to have senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in his corner. theyre changing their strategy a little here. the senate majority leader when the shut down started said he would not put anything on the senate floor that did not have the support of the president, speaker pelosi, and chuck s...

He needs to give up this temper tantrum wall that wont do anything other than destroy the environment of the border, cause a lot of harm to a lot of people, and it will not help in any way, find a way for us to open the doors for asylum seekers coming into this country not because they want to come to disneyland. theyre leaving a lot of violence and hard situations that we will not understand or be living in this this country. so we need to open the government and they need to go back to work in...

That allows immigrants. despite all of the objections. they write this reminder today. there is something serious on the other side of the equation. real people with real lives that depend on what congress and the president do next. >> the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services. erica, thank you for joining us this afternoon. very much appreciate it. you say that you do not trust the president as a good negotiator. talk to me about that. >> absolutely not. i mean you know ...

Of this -- i have been hearing a lot of republican colleagues saying here is something for the da dreamers. we already had daca, he took it away, and it is not even a path to citizenship. it feels ridiculous, they should come back to work and talk about resolutions. i dont trust them. >> do you think this is a way to shift blame to democrats. it is clearly a way using them as a bargaining chip, is this back. >> it is just a gesture from the president really? >> i am surprised it did not come up ...

Leverage in trying to get something through on immigration, that the contours of what theyre looking for includes the wall. it includes some limits -- some restrictions on legal immigration, protection for families at the border, and then a path to legal status for the dreamers. politically, given this situation at the border, is there any sense among democrats, any appetite among democrats to go down that road towards compromise, or is that just a complete dead end to start with? >> i mean lets...

Of what theyre looking for includes the wall. it includes some limits -- some restrictions on legal immigration, protection for families at the border, and then a path to legal status for the dreamers. politically, given this situation at the border, is there any sense among democrats, any appetite among democrats to go down that road towards compromise, or is that just a complete dead end to start with? >> i mean lets remember that back in january when they were talking about taking away daca, ...

>> to the white house the sending signals that if the president sees this as leverage in trying to get something through on immigration that the contours of what that i are looking for includes the wall, limits and restrictions on immigration, protection for families at the border. is there any appetite to go down that road or is it a complete dead end to start with? >> lets remember that back in january when they were talking about taking away daca. they were ready to cut a deal and ready to pa...

Hes with "the new york times." >> its a manufactured crisis at the border. he is knowingly manufacturing a crisis to create a big political message to solve his problem with fox news and the republican base were so upset he got -- >> like -- >> funny, 300,000 people crossing illegally a year, minimum and the problem is fox news? >> i dont know if the problem is fox news or not. it is a crisis and we have to fix it. lets take it back to 2013, when the senate passed a comprehensive immigration bil...

Times,"000 thinks this is a manufactured crisis. >> he is manufacturing a crisis just to create a big political message to solve his problem with fox news and the republican base were so upset. >> the problem is fox news? >> its a crisis. we have to fix it. democrats have been on the table since day one. going back to 2013 when the senate passed an immigration bill and the republicans said no. >> wait, wait. >> i invite my republican friends. >> so the democrats should be on board with the presi...