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Immigration policies. she promises to investigate the administration for abuses, quote, perpetrated during the trump era, and proposes ending this administrations travel ban, raising refugee alliances and strengthening asylum protections. she would establish independent immigration courts and ease the naturalization process. part of that includes reinstating the daca program and providing a pathway to citizenship for daca recipients. another important component is committing $1.5 billion annuall...

Topping our political radar today, vice president mike pence spending part of independence day at a naturalization ceremony. it was this morning at the national archives just outside of washington, d.c. pence congratulated the 44 new u.s. citizens more than once for following the naturalization process legally. >> but all of you aspired to be americans. you stepped forward. you followed the law. you went through the process. america has the most generous system of legal immigration in the histor...

Do that, how are we fair to people who want to go through the naturalization process. i think, this question, over time, has become something, that was never intended to become, by both sides, by the courts or congress. >> neil: and we should point out you mention your column and you discuss, this was based on those in europe in a situation, like this, at least one of the parents came from that designated country. >> right, or in the case of myself, we have two beautiful adopted children. the la...

Political analyst. this is a proposal thats going to hit immigrants working jobs that dont pay enough to support their families especially hard. you report those earns 250% above the poverty level could be affected. how is the administration justifying targeting immigrants who are potentially self-such fshant? >> i want to be clear about who though would affect. theyre trying to get legal permanent status, which would be a green card, or theyre trying to become u.s. citizens through the naturali...

Watch the kind of racial attack on michael steele. this came within a 24-hour period in which somebody describing naturalization process, and the value of immigrants was booed. this came within a few hours of marianne le pen from the neo-nazi family from france spoke. the transformation of the conservative movement into this complete trumpist, nationalist front is really extraordinary. and its important that people like michael steele, the people like you, nicolle, speak out against it. mona sha...

For 27 years. they negotiated his freedom. president reagan helped him through the naturalization process and made him the ambassador, put him next to the cuban delegation in geneva. and we, in fact, started an all out diplomatic assault on fidel castros dictatorship. he is in miami, florida, today. that would be a great interview for you to have. i want to say, you outlived him and in fact, you have seen an end come to that dictatorship. donald trump is saying the right things. he is not going ...

>> first of all, congress has naturalized since 1790. and most people born abroad to american parents are citizens. but that does not mean theyre natural-born citizens. the powers that get it to congress, the only power that congress has given is the power to naturalize. its quite different from a natural born citizen. congress does not have the power to effect the definition of natural born thats in article 2. >> and in your piece, you make this distinction. youre in effect saying that ted cruz...

A few months ago on the senate floor cruz basically called mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the tsfasenate. you cannot see the senate coming to his defense like it did with mccain. >> i want to get you locked up in the legal part of this if this is going to be pursued, but according to what we have out there, most legal experts say natural-born citizen means someone whos a citizen from birth and does not have to go through the naturalization process. to become a citizen. cruz has said h...

Naturalization process on all german, italian and japanese immigrants who were already in this country but who had emigrated from their respective countries. he put a stop to it on the spot. thats the kind of action i think we are looking for here. in the case of the wife here, who was involved, who came into this country on a pakistani passport, the question has to be, i think, at some point, why are we letting people like this in the country. it is bad enough we have to deal with people that a...