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House republican majority refused to bring up the bill, even though it probably had 218 votes because it did not have a majority of the majority, the majority of their caucus. i do believe that is the question looming over us at the end of the road, whatever the senate does, will the house republicans vote for dac? in the house, the parties are representing two different americans. for the people that were foreign born, immigrants are below the national average, 60% of the democrats above the na...

Swedens system is not capable of -- its not designed to handle these problems. for example, in unemployment, in 2006, about 20% of people unemployed were immigrants and foreign born. today, that number is up to 60%. >> tucker: you are an emigrant from a muslim family and yet youve taken a hard line against muslim immigration, mass immigration from muslimtr countries. what is the response been to you? >> if we want to help people, and that is truly what we want to do, we cannot put so much pressu...

Capable of, you know, its not capable and is not designed to handle these problems. for example, in unemployment, i mean, in 2006, about 20% of the people unemployedy immigrants and foreign born. today that number is up to 60%. so. >> tucker: you are an immigrant from a muslim family and, yet, have you taken a hard line against muslim immigration, mass immigration from muslim countries. >> tucker: whats the response been to you. >> if we want to help people, you cannot put so much pressure to th...

All right. it is no coincidence that in the heat of this immigration struggle the trump administration comes out with a new report with statistics released by the department of justice and homeland security linking immigrants to terrorism. closer scrutiny of that report reveals this seems to have been done to project a very particular image, and it is that immigrants are dangerous. all right. so lets get the facts with cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official phil mu...

Act. trump hasnt done anything remotely near that. >> laura: theyre deranged, victor, they are so deranged at this point. theyre questioning trumps mental fitness? these people, they dont have one oar in the water, they have lost their oar and their boat. since were in nevada, victor, and nevada has, like california, opened its doors to a lot of illegal immigrants, i want to put up a full screen for our viewers that i want you to react to. nevada and las vegas immigration, 170,000 illegal immigr...

Trump hasnt done anything remotely near that. >> laura: theyre deranged, victor, they are so deranged at this point. theyre questioning trumps mental fitness? these people, they dont have one oar in the water, they have lost their oar and their boat. since were in nevada, victor, and nevada has, like california, opened its doors to a lot of illegal immigrants, i want to put up a full screen for our viewers that i want you to react to. nevada and las vegas immigration, 170,000 illegal immigrants ...

>> i think thats right and what you see the administration doing right now is relying on a misleading report and misleading data. the one example there of saying, three out of four international terrorists were foreign born and blaming that on immigration when in fact, as pointed out in the briefing there with the principal assistant deputy general, these are a number of people extradited to the united states, not trying to immigrate to the country. thats just an example of how misleading the ar...

International terrorism laws are focused on the conduct found to be committed by individuals, no matter where theyre born. the statistics that you have for the first time compiled in this way in response to the executive order and directives therein demonstrate that the international terrorism offenses that we have prosecutors in the national security division and achieve convictions on, that theres 73% of foreign born. were going to prosecute. anyone we can make cases against that are posing th...

Foreign born individuals who were -- well, its all the international terrorism offenses. international terrorism offenses is something that is categorized by the national security division based on specific provisions of the united states attorneys manual. there are two categories of offenses. category one offenses that list sections of the federal criminal code that are in and of themselves labeled international terrorism offenses. then there are category two offenses that do not qualify as cat...

Are 549 individuals on that list of convictions of terrorism, international terrorism related offenses. a subsequent dhs analysis of those 549 individuals convicted of international terrorism related offenses determined that approximately 73% or 402 of these 549 individuals, were foreign born. a further breakdown of the u.s. citizenship status of these individuals at the time of their respective convictions shows that 254 were not united states citizens. 148 were foreign born naturalized and rec...