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Mayor. you see the stats of foreign born students in the schools. 238 from guatemala and 126 of these illegal unaccompanied. what about this? lets bring in our panel. senior political columnist from washington journal and a columnist for "fortune" magazine. theres a push to secure the border even though harry reid says its secured from republicans and some democrats. and then you have the left pushing for compassion here especially for kids from central america. >> the president is in a politica...

Pueblos behind me. its a perfect time to revisit the history of these two western states. both were carved out of territory that belonged to spain and then to mexico. in 1863, arizona was created as a territory separate from new mexico, but it would be decades before they were admitted to the union. in 1906 congress stipulated that arizona, which was mostly english-speaking, and new mexico, which was half spanish speaking could join the united states together as a single state. new mexico approv...

Legislation. something tells me, however, that mr. putin will not be as offended by the lack of clothes. remember this famous image of the bare-chested macho man of the euros? the gps answer to the question was b, germany. they had 9,600 new asylums claim last year. the united states was second with 88,400. a large perj of germanys population is also foreign born, 13.1% compared to the united states 13%. only a third of germanys foreign born population is from the european union. thanks to all o...

>> president obama held an independence day naturalization ceremony for more than two dozen foreign born service members who became u.s. citizens today. the event comes against the backdrop of severe concerns over illegal immigration along the southern border. republicans are urging the president to visit the border during a fundraising trip to texas next week. hurricane arthur has weakened to a category 1 storm. it impacted north carolinas barrier islands overnight bringing flooding and tens ...

To sacrifice, potentially to give their lives for the security of this country even though they werent yet americans. thats how much they love this country. they were prepared to fight and die for an america they did not yet fully belong to. i think theyve earned their stripes in more ways than one. >> reporter: so we expect to hear the president today talk about the contributions made by foreign born members of the u.s. forces. we should note this comes the same week that the president, frustra...

Joining me now, dante chinny and usa todays washington bureau chief, susan page. i got the little thing here so we can mess around here a little bit. but its sort of two different greens here when were talking about these hispanic centers that you talk about here. the sort of whats happening on the mid-atlantic is in one place and whats happening in the deep south. >> yeah. and when you talk about whats happening west of the mississippi, over here, what youre really talking about is places that ...

Democratic. thats the green. the hispanic centers, all that green west of the mississippi river, are mostly in rural places that tend to vote republican. in 2012, the president won the big city counties, which represented 73 million people, 23% of them foreign born and he won those by 31 points. he also won the urban suburbs, those close-in suburbs that have a foreign-born population of 17%. he won those by 16 points. but in the hispanic centers, counties that are 56% hispanic on average, romney...

Ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. nothing says you care like a milk-bone brushing chew. [ barks ] hour tdr 50 state of california is one of the most multi-cultural. when the gold rush began, the need for a workforce grew exponentially. nearly 40% of the states population was foreign born. amazing. near the end of...

California. over the next century, the number of population in california was 27% foreign-born. one out of every three residents in los angeles county is foreign born. eight counties, including los angeles county are now considered a majority minority. they are also the eight largest counties in the entire state. latinos are now expected to outnumber whites in california by the end of this year and theyve seen their political influence grow dramatically over the past two decades. the number of l...

And half the delegation. you might think the state should be more republican. most voters come from the suburbs and pretty wealthy ones that the. new jerseys median income is the second highest in the nation, just behind maryland, but on social issues, the state tends to be relatively moderate and 42 are minorities, and one in five new jersey residents are foreign born. new jersey constituents have a rocky relationship with their lawmakers and for good reasons. over the last decade and a half, m...