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Have millions of immigrants not be able to become permanent residents and eventual voters. there is their way to eventually have minority rule, a country a majority of people of color in the future. >> this traction perfectly with the next question i wanted to ask the professor which is youve also done a lot of the politics on this. i wonder what you think about the politics here after the president has had lets be clear, rough times even by his standards you know, this convicted sex offender th...

Tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. the idea is pretty simple. america is where some of them might get to cop for a better life. not that the door to america sk completely shut unless you already have one. with that we turn to our expert panel it, leah rigore, mary executive director of the national immigration law center and washington anchor catty kay. mariel elaina, your thoughts? >> thank you, ari. as an immigrant from colombia and a lawyer, it is deeply offensive to s...

Going to need to rely on certain types of safety net programs whether its unemployment, whether its nutrition assistance, health care, whatever it is. these are anti-poverty programs for that very reason. theyre anti-poverty. theyre meant to help people make ends meet when theyre facing a hard time which was my own familys experience when we first arrived in this country in the 1970s from colombia. >> leah, listen to the president on all this today. >> maybe there ought to be a different poem on...

For donald trump? we may point to 2016 but we can look at 2018 and see that this idea of the so-called hoard, this myth of the hoard, the fear of the hoard didnt pan out. the caravan didnt play out in his favor at the ballot box. what it ended up doing is creating, you know, playing a role in the increased frenzy and rhetoric around race that had devastating consequences but politically, didnt seem to -- didnt payoff for him. >> leah and marie elaina, thank you both. have i one more thing in new...