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The real numbers. steven camerota director of research for the center of immigration studies and he joins us now. we hear all about the 800,000 under the daca program. but, if you look at the numbers, there are closer to almost 4 million illegal immigrants brought here as children in total. depending on what kind of deal is struck, could receive a level of amnesty. help us break down these numbers. >> look, the way the daca program worked you had to be under 16. you couldnt be over the age of 31...

Implement the high school requirement, you just have to be working towards some kind of g.e.d. or something like it. and that adds several hundred thousand people and, of course, it depends on the methodology you use to estimate these things. so its very easy to get over 3 million, maybe 4 million people when you play with the numbers. and the dream acts in congress, the things actually that have been scored by the congressional budget office do look to have potentially 3 million, 4 million peop...

Contributor and great to see you both this tuesday morning. rich, what happens? what do you think? >> if reporting is correct theyll make this announcement with the six-month delay. a good compromise and reflects the fact that president was genuinely torn over this. he realizes correctly that this was an unconstitutional an illegal act by president obama to legislate on his own. but he feels sympathy for this population of illegal immigrants, as he should. so he is not ending it immediately. he ...

College tuition, ending the death penalty, marriage equality, passing the dream acts. thats not spin. thats what actually happened in maryland. and the more people hear that, the more his message will be resonating across the country. i mean, you know, when he did the iowa j.j. dinner a couple weeks ago he was at 1%. now hes at 7%, a 700% increase. association the more people see him, they like him. his message will get out. and i think as we get our message out nationally, more people will grav...

Them in las vegas that circulated on twitter and you see them there reading as he is doing the blanks and he has the person person personal moments. are you in the campaign advising them to go after them. >> he is a great plank er. what were advising him and who what he knows is to introduce himself. he has a great story to tell. he is the only person on the stage that does not just have progressive values, but put them into action. passing the dream acts and signing into law and marriage equali...

Broken system. >> what is it you want to say to them? if i could put them in front of you and you could talk to the speaker and various house leaders before they push it through the house and get it to the senate, what is it you think they need to know in developing any immigration proposals? >> they need to know a lot. and theres way too much for me to try to describe on your show, but i mean, one thing i would like to tell them, for example, governor, is that at this moment, we have a humanita...

>> when they say, no, you cant, we say, yes, we can! when they say, no, you cant, past or real, racial profiling with teeth, we say, yes, we can! because, yes, we did! two days ago in new york city. when they say no, you cant pass the dream acts. no, you cant pass marriage equality, no, you cant abolish the death penalty. no, you cant expand voting rights in any state, south of the mason-dixon, we say, yes, we can! because yes, we did just five miles from here in maryland last year. when they sa...

Well get more information as it comes in on that one. back to this now. there is a new efforts in the united states senate to push ahead with the dream act which is a controversial bill that would give some illegal immigrants a quick path to citizenship. one state already passed its own version of the dream acts. we are seeing how thats working out for them. they are under attack for a law critics say gives special privileges to those in the state illegally. im joined by our great panel. simon r...

Issues are being parachuted in all the time. >> chris: do you disagree, with senator durbin whether or not they have the votes to ratify. >> that depends upon how much the senate is jammed on the issue. that is to say, not able to deal with the requisite number of amendments needed to be dealt with. >> chris: how long would that take? can it be done in the lame duck. >> not in the way we are doing it, as dick alluded to, we keep parachuting other issues in the dream acts, 9/11 and dont ask, dont...

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