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More importantly he wants to get latino votes for himself two years from now but he could care less about the policies. >> laura: setting aside the timing issue of all of, this i would agree with you, this is an attempt to ram it through before november, maybe in a lame duck session. do you agree with the substance of what he is saying? you and i have gone around on this for years about immigration reform. obviously im more hard line. you have a pathway to legalization. >> no. >> laura: do you a...

And, you know, we are not going to get operational control of the border pick onions in texas for six weeks. im going to stand in line and im going to get that job. until we do that were not going to have the degree of control we want to have on our border. but, here is my point though about this speech. you dont take a big complex issue like this and then just throw it out there with no preparation. particularly if you have got a record like president obamas. let me remind you of some of the vo...

Apple and cherry orchards, and to see 300 jamaicans, and they have joined about 700 mexicans in this guest worker program, and the farms said they had to do this because they couldnt get americans to do the job. they got busted, as you mentioned, last year with the i-9 crackdown the obama administration put in place and had to fire 550 workers. using the guest worker program is not easy or cheap, it costs about $2600 per jamaican just for transportation to and from and housing. the growers also ...

Then go home. and, you know, we are not going to get operational control of the border pick onions in texas for six weeks. im going to stand in line and im going to get that job. until we do that were not going to have the degree of control we want to have on our border. but, here is my point though about this speech. you dont take a big complex issue like this and then just throw it out there with no preparation. particularly if you have got a record like president obamas. let me remind you of ...

This fall. more importantly he wants to get latino votes for himself two years from now but he could care less about the policies. >> laura: setting aside the timing issue of all of, this i would agree with you, this is an attempt to ram it through before november, maybe in a lame duck session. do you agree with the substance of what he is saying? you and i have gone around on this for years about immigration reform. obviously im more hard line. you have a pathway to legalization. >> no. >> laur...

Also a fox news contributor. is this, carl a chicken or egg situation? i mean can you either reform immigration or secure the border first? does it really matter? >> well i do think the president has a point that if you want to get complete optional control of the border its important to reduce the pressure on the border and the only way too do that -- to do that is to have a guest worker program that causes people to stand in line and wait to come up here and pick onions, to pick fruit or work ...

Then go home. and, you know, we are not going to get operational control of the border pick onions in texas for six weeks. im going to stand in line and im going to get that job. until we do that were not going to have the degree of control we want to have on our border. but, here is my point though about this speech. you dont take a big complex issue like this and then just throw it out there with no preparation. particularly if you have got a record like president obamas. let me remind you of ...

This fall. more importantly he wants to get latino votes for himself two years from now but he could care less about the policies. >> laura: setting aside the timing issue of all of, this i would agree with you, this is an attempt to ram it through before november, maybe in a lame duck session. do you agree with the substance of what he is saying? you and i have gone around on this for years about immigration reform. obviously im more hard line. you have a pathway to legalization. >> no. >> laur...

Program favored by some conservatives and most of the business people. he voted against ted kennedy who broke ranks with the labor unions to support a guest worker program. president obama has already played politics with this once as senator if he were serious he would have done more groundwork and foundation building than he has done. hes done zip. state of the union address and devotes 38 words, please, less than half a minute. if he were serious he should have started it last year or begin i...

President to make the tough decisions. if someone is willing to forget the politics and not try to walk through like a mine field and truly be a leader on it is not such a tough issue any more. if you are going to make it a political decision it is, because you have to keep everybody happy. a leader willing to have one term this isnt a tough decision. someone who wants to be political it is a very tough decision. >> yeah look, if you want to get it done you dont force people who have a difficult...