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Immigration reform passing because of the times we live in. but does the republican partys inconsistency on border control as part of immigration reform worry you as this debate moves forward? >> well, i think theres no question, tom, there is a place for border enforcement and border security. thats critical to the bill. but i think they have also got to be reasonable about how they do it. the commission that the senators propose would have folks like rick perry and jan brewer, who could be app...

Border enforcement has gotten a ton of money and the net inflow of new, illegal immigrants doesnt exist, basically. theyre acting like hes done nothing. so this clamber for enforcement first ignores the political reality and makes me wonder if people like marco rubio are trying to have it both ways. >> theyre saying enforcement as if there has not been enforcement and its really distorting the record. but it seems like nia, the president is coming up stronger in his issues and his views and his ...

>> joining me now is msnbcs joy reid and richard wolff, and the organizer at united we dream. joy, what is the main difference between the presidents plan and the other introduced yesterday? >> well, the main difference is triggers that seems to be you can do whatever you want if there is a trigger. and for the republicans they believe you have to do significant border enforcement first, and whoever decides they have deemed enforcement to be sufficient then you can allow people to get a path to ...

The 2007 bill asked for several things that we are super serving or doing measure they asked for. we have 21,000 border patrol agents zeechl over 600 miles. they asked for 300 towers. we have nine. annual border crossings are down to 85,000 in 2011. thank you for pointing that out to me. steve? it seems to me that border security is this thing that is actually working and republicans use to say we will never agree to a pathway. we will keep holding this up forever. >> the border has never been s...

Necessarily a lot of meat on the bones. i think well have to see today what exactly he says in this speech. it does seem like he is for a quicker path to citizenship. hogan actually made the case that i think obama will make today. and that is, quirk quicker path citizenship and not necessarily tied to border enforcement. you have had the president make these speeches that talks about border enforcement and says that republicans keep moving the goalpost in terms of what qualifies for the requisi...

Legal way, theyre only processing some visa requests from 1992. 1993. these folks are doing it the legal way and they have still been waiting 20, 20 plus years. >> thats a great question. >> what do you do? >> should the folks that are here now at all get in line ahead of any of those folks? >> the answer is they have to get at the end of the line. but weve got to put more resources. you hear a lot of talk about border security. according to the migration policy institute, we have a minus net to...

Path to sit te citizenship. and president obama said dont deport those people. a lot of the vote went to obama, the president is on our side. the republicans cant do that this time. i understand the concerns about people break our laws and border enforcement has to be part of it, but they have to send a message to hispanics that we understand and value you, and we have an answer for all of the millions of you who are out there. martha: i think you can really look to that as one of the significan...

First couple. lets brick in victoria defrancesco soto, a contributor to nbc and when this prompt ter moves i will have the rest of it. thanks for coming on. let me ask you about this reference throughout the formal part of the presentation today. what did you think about the way in which the latino issues were raised from the inaugural platform? >> well, he definitely put them front and center. he knows that theres going to be a big challenge when it comes to immigration and the challenge is in ...

There was focus on other issues, namely make. the big but -- were going to s mine fields on both sides of the aisle. the republicans are still of two minds when it comes to immigration reform. some of them want to see it through, think want to court latinos but you still have that tea party contingent which dont want anything except border enforcement. and then with democrats, you have some that are very pro-immigration and dont want to compromise, its either all or nothing. even though we have ...

I think you control the border first. you create a path way for those people that are here. you dont say you got to go home. and that is a position that ive evolved on. because you know what? its got to be resolved. >> not surprisingly, shaun hannity finds himself sliding into agreement with his boss, the immigrant rupert murdoch who tweeted, election comment republicans have to ignore 5% nativist, embrace hispanics, welcome best asian and european graduates. >> the solution to republican proble...