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Worse. i think the secret service needs to hold these folks accountable, also just professionalism, and ethics in terms of you know being professionals in all walks of their daily lives, because their task is to protect the president. these need to be examples to the rest of us. >> now, let me go to the next point. should americans be required to vote? its an idea president obama floated. >> in australia and some other countries theres mandatory voting voting. it would be transform tiff if every...

Reasoning. >> because the people who tend not to vote are young. theyre lower income. theyre skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups. and, you know, theyre often the folks who are scratching and climbing to get into the middle class, and theyre working hard. >> kerry dan is nbcs political editor. she joins us now. lets talk about the mandatory voting law idea. obviously the president, who is a constitutional scholar, knows the significance of what it means for the americ...

Grades and have higher incomes. amy and her husband argue any parent can do it but certain immigrant groups, jews, cubans, nigeriians and others are more likely to instill values in kids that lead to success. >> tiger mom is back with a theory about racial superiority. >> she is the worst person ever born. >> its not race and genetic. we say the opposite. if you look at america, the most successful group include all races. >> please welcome -- >> nigerian americans are amazing examples. less tha...

Grades and have higher incomes. amy and her husband argue any parent can do it but certain immigrant groups, jews, cubans, nigeriians and others are more likely to instill values in kids that lead to success. >> tiger mom is back with a theory about racial superiority. >> she is the worst person ever born. >> its not race and genetic. we say the opposite. if you look at america, the most successful group include all races. >> please welcome -- >> nigerian americans are amazing examples. less tha...

Grades and have higher incomes. amy and her husband argue any parent can do it but certain immigrant groups, jews, cubans, nigeriians and others are more likely to instill values in kids that lead to success. >> tiger mom is back with a theory about racial superiority. >> she is the worst person ever born. >> its not race and genetic. we say the opposite. if you look at america, the most successful group include all races. >> please welcome -- >> nigerian americans are amazing examples. less tha...

>> but it is an indictment of the system that we go from crisis to crisis. if youre talking about the economy, if youre talking about immigration. the congress doesnt deal with broad questions on this. its not capable of it. it deals with crisis after crisis, and its no way to govern on an issue that is this broad. >> by the way, this is a not in my backyard. weve had americans protesting immigrant groups being shifted around in this country for decades. bill clinton lost a race for governor arg...

Minorities. it should be both. and i think the message if they focus on job creation on, values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, they should be natural republican voters. >> lets say we get another data point to look at, dan. for example, in 2004 republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012, it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> yeah. they sure a...

It should be both. the message, if they focus on job creation and values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, entrepreneurial should be natural republican voters. >> weve got another data point to look at. for example in 2004, republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012 it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> they are. probably the hispanic vote is th...

Innate, its not biological. instead, cultural factors are at work. we decided to look inside those cultures, those groups, families to try to see if we could see what was happening and try to learn from it. >> what is the cultural factor at work here that makes it so that these immigrant groups, that certain immigrant groups, succeed? >> its not just immigrant groups. the mormons are a non-immigrant group. amazing despite their enormous difference, what do mormons an nigerian-americans and chine...

Institute here serves 7,000 a year, but thats half as many as expected in a town this size. the institute is now a key component in the mosaic project, an ambitious plan to make this area much more inviting to immigrants. >> st. louis wants to be a welcoming community, and thats what we are going to do. >> reporter: it city is helping immigrant groups connect with loans, opportunities, education. this is not just a feel-good measure. a study found immigrants are more likely to open businesses, c...