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As drag on free market won a round when the appellate court ruled president obamas recess awe pointment to the national relation board was unconstitutional. historians of the labor movement say leaders need to adapt to changing demographic reality. >> in some places they are concentrating on those notoriously hard to organize sectors and retail and fast food. and a state like california you can see from the organized labor is a bright spot. the numbers grew by 100,000 this past year. driven in l...

"the daily rundown," well be back in 30 seconds. on our radar, ballots in the buckeye state a ruling on pennsylvanias voter i.d. law and mitt romney sides with illegal immigrant workers. few first, voters in ohio are casting those ballots today. they are able to vote by mail or in person without giving a specific reason. the first lady is in cincinnati and the the romney campaign will hold a bus tour there. 2008 about 30% of ohios total

>> theres no push-back and the transparency constituency is fairly limited. we will jump to another good one. the california senate passed a bill yesterday that aims to protect illegal immigrants from status checks by local police. the measure is dubbed the anti-arizona bill because it prevents the local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unless they have been convicted of an actual serious felony. the thing about this is its sort of like beyond the policy, its like if you...

Jobs are being done by americans. so i also want to point out that we cant make our immigration policy just on the basis of the economic contributions. immigrants are full human beings. they have intellect and are civically active and care about their communities and bring their cultures. we need to think about whether we are willing and what the long-term consequences would be of putting immigrants into an only economic box saying you are only a worker, we dont want the rest of you. keep that o...

How many people showing up there, laura? >> reporter: hey, jamie. well, certainly hundreds of people at this point. all morning long theyve been trickling in the here. the raining earlier today, but the weather is warming up. things are heating up inside the park in terms of the drum circle and the chants weve been hearing. picketers, marchers, demonstrators are all here. organizers say they hope todays coordinated events all across america will help give sort of a spring resurgence to the occup...

Rehearsed before. here he is in june suggesting a southern boarder with an alligator-filled mote. >> a 20-foot wall, barbed wire, electrified at the top and on this side of the fence -- [inaudible]. i will put the alligators in the mote. >> laughter and a lot of applause for that idea indeed. its worth noting that tonights debate takes place as alabama implements a new immigration law believed by many to be the toughest in the nation, prompting immigrant workers and school children to stay home ...

for locking her sisters boyfriend in a closet until he starved to death. more recently she had a house in florida and she had the i.d.s and social security numbers or powers of attorney for some 50 other people when they arrested her. finding those people, learning their storieses no small job but some questions are still being answered. just this morning police in west palm beach confirmed a 15-year-old girl who was last seen in july with gregory thomas or thomass teenage son was foun...

68, killed people between 1978 and 1985. take a look at these items that u.s. marshals are auctioning online. the money will help to compensate the victims. people can bid over 60 items over a two-week period. and other items are his drivers license and birth certificates and checks and school transcript in case you want a piece of any of that. and georgia governor nathan deal has signed a controversial immigration bill into law that took place about an hour ago outside of a small group of pro...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the waters got to ...

Large majorities in the senate. you have to have republican support and they killed the dream act. young people coming here not because of their own fault. but coming here in a young age andmentsing to go to college and serve in military and participate in this great counselry. there are of immigration to work on. we need border enforcement and we need to do that and move forward with immigration reform at the same time. the agricultural industry cannot survive without the immigrant workers. it ...