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Immigration reform when he was a candidate. there is a natural instinct towards the partisan extreme. in the case of democrats they are adamant for comprehensive immigration reform. they want th want to see a patho citizenship, a guest worker program and they support beefing you have the border. republicans insist on intoard security first and everything else secondarily. both sides if you want to win a republican primary you have to take the conservative position and support for security. the d...

Two parties come november? >> reporter: well, weve already seen the ideological lines drawn and the rhetoric begun to sort of come forth. democrats are arguing that republicans being antiimmigration reform and in support of what they consider to be an inappropriate arizona state law, democrats say republicans are being intolerant and democrats frankly hope that they can energize and court hispanic voters, the fastest and largest growing demographic bloc in the country, republicans on the other h...

More dangerous it gets, particularly at the weak points of the border, like el paso. there is a reason why people are suspicious of president obama. when he was in the united states senate and comprehensive immigration reform was being discussed he consistently voted against measures to strengthen the border, for example, he voted against an amendment proposed by john cornyn from texas that said if you were a felon or member of one of these violent central american or mexican gangs you could not...

Without these legislative necessities in hand, mr. obama fell back on poetry. but he garbled the well known verse, that is engraved on statue of liberty. >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. >> the stanza reads give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. losing an american classic in translation might be overlooked if the white house election year immigration push contained specifics but as the debate rages over border contro...

He could have made it stick and turned to the country and said now that i have proven you can trust me on immigration, lets talk about how we solve the challenges, how we create a guest worker program and soing for. instead, all we was one more -- and so forth. instead, all we was one more speech. >> greta: what would you expect if he took the issue seriously? >> i think hell take it politically he wont take it seriously. his next step will be a comprehensive plan and attack the republicans nor ...

If it is health care theyve rammed it through. if it is financial services they rammed it through. 787 billion dollar stimulus they rammed it through. now you get to immigration reform serious national to the border and a solution to having some kind of guest worker program that is real. do we get anything thats real? no. we get a political public relations stunt that has no underlying meaning, except to set up the signal for this falls campaign. i think it is sad. this is going to become an adm...

House they prove this every time it matters. if it is health care theyve rammed it through. if it is financial services they rammed it through. 787 billion dollar stimulus they rammed it through. now you get to immigration reform serious national to the border and a solution to having some kind of guest worker program that is real. do we get anything thats real? no. we get a political public relations stunt that has no underlying meaning, except to set up the signal for this falls campaign. i th...

To the united states. what about that? >> well, look, theres a lot of things we can do about illegal immigration, but the first thing it seems to me -- and the american people agree -- is to actually control the border. like i said, if we dont control the border, the drug cartels will, and who knows who else can come through when they do. then we can work at a guest worker program. which, by the way, the unions have been the number one impediment to getting a guest worker program thats reasonabl...

So the company jumped into the countrys guest worker program. but they had to advertise in four states for six months but only had a dozen takers. a guarantee of 30 hours a week and a minimum of $11 an hour with a chance to make more if you pick more. >> the low teens, you have gone the all the people that are willing to come. beyond that they dont want to consider working at that kind of a job. >> reporter: jamaican workers have other costs. $2,600 in transportation to and from plus housing. bu...

Well-worn words. >> give me your tired and your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. >> reporter: that stanza reads give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. losing an american classic in translation might be easily overlooked if the white house election year immigration push contained more specifics but as the debate rages over border patrol, other key immigration details are few and far between. mr. obamas speech for example didnt mention guest work...