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Marched in chattanooga. last week a letter writing campaign in johnson city. concerned citizens have been keeping the pressure on. as we head into the labor day weekend with dacas future uncertain, remember what we saw today in tennessee. pressure works. joining us now is advocacy director at the united we dream network. miss martinez, thank you for joining us tonight. talk a bit about the pressure thats been put on in tennessee. do you think that the same kind of pressure can potentially work n...

Attorneys generals come out. 20 attorney generals say they stand with daca. so i think that immigrant young people, united we dream, were ready to fight back because we know this is the right thing to do. >> have you been surprised by any of the support youve seen come out in favor of keeping daca in place? >> not at all surprised. i know this is where the country is. there is a vicious attack on daca that is brought about by the white supremacy agenda. theres a march right now from charlottesvi...

And doing immigration reform in a way that could actually protect these daca recipients legally through legislation? >> well both myself and the congressman from nevada, two formerly undocumented members of congress, sent a letter to the president and paul ryan asking him not to join the rescinding effort of the daca benefits for these 800,000 young people that are here in america. but i think we need a comprehensive immigration reform discussion. the congress in chicago led the american hope ac...

Republican states attorney general plus one governor, one of them switched teams. herbert slattery iii. this afternoon attorney general slattery had a sudden change of heart and hes now bailing on his republican comrades and their threat to sue over daca. writing, quote, there is a human element to this that is not lost on me and should not be ignored. he went to say, quote, many of the daca recipients whose records i reviewed have outstanding accomplishments and laudable ambitions which achieve...

Agenda or young people of color? if youre with young people of color, our families, and freedom fighters, you need to stand on. the right side of history. >> all right. advocacy director for united we dream network and daca recipient, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> joining us now is a representative of new york. hes the first dominican american and first undocumented immigrant to be elected to congress. thank you for being here. >> good to see you again. >> sort of the same question to yo...

Lot of people are fine with this program. the idea that this would lapse and you would have young people, for all intents and purposes, know nothing but the u.s. and they are subject to deportation? >> public opinion on all things immigration really depends on who youre talking about, who is here without documents, illegal status. if youre talking about somebody who has committed a variety of crimes, you see a lot of americans saying, no, we want the law to be tough on those folks. when it comes...

In comparison to the press secretary, saying, quote, we find this decision to be outrageous, especially in liement of the presidents successful bipartisan meeting with house and senate members at the white house on the same day. an issue of this magnitude must go through the normal legislative process. there is agreement in the house and senate that something needs to be done about the dreamers, the judge got some support in the form of vermont senator patrick leahy. >> the president should have...