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Roof, when every 5 children, when you have students in english and we dont have enough english-speaking teachers try to find a spanish-speaking calculus teacher, the class-size, emergency rooms are overrun, the report came out this week, the census bureau, 70%, 63% of people here illegally are on some type of welfare compared to 30%, the states bear the brunt of this, no state can afford to do this. >> what do you say to critics who say thats another characterization of people coming here, going...

At english. when you have students who dont speak english, we dont have enough english speaking teachers. try to find a spanish speaking calculus teacher. our emergency rooms are overrun. the report came out this week, the census bureau, that 70% -- 63% of people here illegally are on some type of welfare compared to 30% of native born? the states are the ones who bear the brunt of this. no state can afford to do this. >> shannon: what do you say to the critics, they are going to be incarcerated...

Otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. the public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. thats why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards. >> john, to you. why was it not the same anger, the same protests when past presidents have implemented a crackdown on immigration? >> um, i dont think thats entirely accurate. i think weve been raising awareness around border militarization and the plight of i...