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Republicans. democrats want to keep the votes, republicans want a bigger share of the vote of. business wants cheap labor. the cheapest labor is the guy who just got across the border and is working his butt off. that guy is cheap and he works very hard and he may be very well skilled. i keep looking around for who doesnt want illegal immigration? who really wants to -- so we dont have nbc cameras the night after the bill is passed with people racing through the flood lights. again, what is goin...

Night so we can say our border is secure, they arent sneaking into the country. they come through a process of either guest workers or a regular application for admission. >> if you think of this as a stew instead of a roast, lets look at the elements. number one, border security. seems like theres general consensus around that. they should be able to come together on that. number two, enough latitude to accommodate both high skilled workers, the so-called h-1b visa issues which is so important,...

It goes back the entire length of the 20th century, back in the 1920s. >> paul: was the irish or chinese? >> as far as the mexicans go, in the 1940s and 19 50s we had a program where they could come in and work and go back to mexico. the unions didnt like that and they killed the bracero system. we have not had that mechanism since. the immigration law gave them amnesty, started this fight back then and we have never resolved this. that is what the new immigration bill is trying to do. >> paul: ...

Today, if you have a close relative in the united states you wait years, maybe even over a decade to come here if you dont have a close relative in the united states, theres no line to get into to come here legally. if you change those incentives, find a path in a reasonable amount of time that would increase border security as well. >> you cant change the reality, which is that we have a cross-border labor market. this has existed for 100 years, when the economy is good here, people come this w...

>> 2007 ted kennedy led the fight to reform immigration joined by george w. bush and john mccain. big rallies dominated headlines while the national guard joined so-called vigilante groups like the minute men on the border. todays atmosphere is radically different shaped by a more secure border, more subdued republican party and a slower economy. >> this is not such a simple issue, its not an issue of just building a wall, its not an issue of kicking people out and its not an issue that is just ...

Border patrol has tried a new radar mounted on a drone. it was actually developed to find taliban fighters in afghanistan. and they flew it over part of the border in arizona, and they discovered that the border patrol was apprehending fewer than half the people who were crossing illegally, and they didnt even know how many people had been crossing illegally. so those two things really kind of shocked a number of lawmakers on capitol hill. and this bill that was filed today is a result of those ...

Economic contributions of those who continue to live in the shadows. >> most folks dont realize that these individuals pay billions of dollars already in our economic, whether in social security or taxes. >> there are a couple of hang-ups, guest workers, he we thought it was a deal, between the chamber of commerce, the afl-cio, theres some last-minute hang-ups. what are you hearing? settle theyre closer to a deal, but unfortunately, they still have a lot of the folks on in the south, the agricul...

It also has realistic measures for the number of guest workers needed to fuel the u.s. economy. the new bipartisan immigration bill will include a new visa for temporary year round low skilled foreign born workers. but the program will be capped at 200,000 per year and be subject to unemployment, job openings and employer demand, and not everyone is happy with the formula. five different contracting associations signed a statement this week that said a guest worker program that fails to provide ...

It has to include the freedom to change employers. and it has to include strong protections for the u.s. workers. the w visa has some of those protections but it would do nothing to protect the other guest workers in our country. theres over a million guest workers who come to the u.s. every year and all guest workers need the protection. that includes j1. it includes h2b. >> and you know, jacob. as you are -- even as youre describing them and giving us the alphabet soup, its

Care where a bill is brought and nobody has a chance to read it. i think youll see the senate go through the process of having hearings on the bill, understand whats in it and see if we can pass something. >> you think there is a lot more ground to cover. so does your former colleague, senator rubio, who is a member of the so-called gang of eight. and after there was a sense of progress being made, he put a chill on it over the weekend. he released a statement that got a lot of attention. he sai...