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States, why -- he can talk policy for sure, but why is he even going there, eric, do you think? >> well, heres the deal, i think all three parties in this situation are correct. everyone is frustrated with congress on their failure to act on immigration reform. and dont forget, donald trump does have respect for the american voter who voted for him and the american people who said their number one issue was to build a wall and to enforce our border. so i think it is very heartening to see the ad...

He worked in a cow factory near osnabrück. >> anthony: was your neighborhood italian, or mixed or german? >> maurizio: it was mixed. there were more like these homes made for the guest worker program. you know, all immigrants were like stuffed in there. >> anthony: and integrated. >> maurizio: yeah. >> anthony: meaning the italians all lived together. >> maurizio: not all italians, but lots of immigrants, like turkish people, italian people, surrounded by germans. >> anthony: what do they think...

The way the president spun it i thought was so interesting to watch president trump do his thing. this is about to get good. for the farmers its about to get really good. you can hear him pitching this. obviously someone was like mr. trump we need workers right now because of the unemployment level. >> he was at a rally and all of a sudden people were like guest worker program? that is not what i came here to expect. that is what the president should be advancing. we should be talking about poli...

Guest worker program that allows immigrants to work in manufacturing or farming. canada has one. >> tucker: at least we are in charge of that. 15 million people here illegally. no republican, other than steve king, is, extinguishers and anybody back really. lets -- >> where do you send them to? >> tucker: im talking about the 15 million people in this country illegally. republicans, they are lying to their voters. they will never build meaningful border control. they will never send anybody back...

Which is addressing the daca situation, making sure that we secure our border, which includes closing loop holes when people get in the country. and we also address both ending extended family immigration or chain migration and eliminating the visa lottery. we also have in our bill an agricultural guest worker program, which addresses the area of our economy that is most severely impacted by illegal immigration. we want to make sure that people working in agriculture are legal. we have a great p...

Daca and about securing the country and about ending extended family immigration and the visa lottery but it also has e-verify, which is popular with the public. very popular, 80% in most polls i see support e-verify and it includes a guest worker program that is necessary when you do e-verify. were building support and we hope to bring it to the floor soon. >> bill: do you know if that has enough votes to pass in the house? >> we took a whip check. it was positive and were now working on the pe...

Congress fix it created an opportunity to put this issue on the front burner and it is important that it stay there. the house republican leadership strongly agrees with that. and we are working very hard to pass legislation. one advantage we have in the house is that it only requires a majority of the house. >> bill: you could get it in the house, i understand that. when it moves to the senate your plan will be more conservative than what they were even considering in the senate. you will do th...

Family. its for a better life for their family. and so thats the thing that we have to protect in america. and those ideals are neither republican or democrat. those are american ideologies that i would hope republicans and democrats would come together to fix that problem so that people can come in here in a legal process thats not -- >> but congressman, how are they going to have that opportunity, excuse me for interrupting, if youre own going to allow the skilled architects or software engine...

Go along with what the president has to say and what about some in the opposing party? >> absolutely. we have been working on this now for months. and four of us members of congress and the house introduced a bill yesterday that essentially covers the presidents priorities. look, i think republicans are generally open to some sort of legislative move related to the daca position, but theres a couple of priorities that have to be most important. one is we have to secure our border. i represent a ...

Reform. and that needs to be one of the pieces of that. border security absolutely essential. how do you spend the money for border security? a wall, is that the best way? many of us think that is not the best way. we also need to deal with the agricultural guest worker program, which is a major problem here in california. >> tucker: i know your growers want cheap labor as they can get. i would like cheap labor at my house too, but can we just agree that we should stop letting people in randomly...