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That. they would like to be able to make a kooucouple big changes. one would be to use social media and other online tools to speed up looking through peoples backgrounds regarding their neighbors or whether they filed bankruptcies. it is a lot easier now, they dont have to actually do gum shoe look at all these people. so they want to streamline that. also they are trying to make it so that a person who is working in the intel field say at a contractor and they are going to go into the governme...

What happens here is we do not have the protections of the voting rights act anymore. its been held up by boehner, mcconnell, and them for over 1,700 days, over four years. that means these districts can be -- they dont have to go through preclearance. additionally, when this happens, when they stack and pack and bleach these districts, they take a district that, say a person is winning with 40% minority vote, bump it up to, say, 60%, 70%, take the black voters out of the district where black an...

1,700 days, over four years. these districts dont have to go through preclearance. additionally, when this happens, when they stack and pack and bleach these districts, they take a district that, say a person is winning with 40% minority vote, bump it up to, say, 60%, 70%, take the black voters out of the district where black and white progressives can work together to elect candidates of their choice -- >> whos watching this stuff? >> at the time -- >> whos watching? >> whats happening is naacp...

In 2016 nine lives. all of these to inundagsz, tropical storms, youre always a little bit nervous and you want to do as much as you can to save as many lives as you can and to help people restore themselves to normalcy as quickly as you can. >> and what contact have you had with this current administration? anybody in homeland security, adviser tom boss saturday talking about how you guys can best prepare for this? >> weve been engaged by way of phone conversations. we have these conference call...

Without the preclearance or, as he says, was he part of a catch and release which makes no sense at all that he was caught in california and then thrown back to mexico and had to sneak back. in it makes no sense. >> dana: let me just ask because if you were brought here as a 2-year-old child. you grew up your whole life here and now you are whatever age do you understand something wrong, can you actually be deported to a country that you never knew? >> yes. yes. because you have -- you are not c...

Mexico and then tried to sneak back and then got picked up again. but there is a distinction as that case gets listened to by the judge, there also is this question about should dreamers have just full protected status or is there a line that they cross if there is criminal activity, can they be deported? >> well, i think its very clear that, look, number one, the laws are meant to be enforced and thats one of the reasons that donald trump was elected. thats what people want. donald trump has ki...

Attack of people with mexican heritage. in january, curiel approved a $25 million settlement in the trump university suit. now a new complaint has been filed against the trump administrations customs and border protection and the judge randomly assigned to the case is judge curiel. >> its called the wheel. it literally goes into a barrel and it gets assigned randomly to a judge. >> reporter: mon tess lawyers allege he was deported to mexico earlier this year even though he had active protections...

Circuit federal panel and they found that the law has the effect of discriminating but they sent back the question of whether the law intentionally discriminates back to the trial judge. so last week we had an argument before that trial judge about whether the law intentionally discriminates. and as our lawyer, janae nelson, was on her flight to texas, we learned that the department of justice was no longer willing to stand by the contention that the law intentionally discriminates. theres somet...

The role of the federal government in enforcing civil rights laws. im afraid were not going to see that over the next four years, as long as hes attorney general. >> reverend barber, final word? >> we won in north carolina over voter suppression. with preclearance they would have never been able to pass it on the books. congress is the culprit here. since shelby 2013, theyve had the power to fix the voting rights act. thats where we have to put our focus. we talked about this today well have to ...

>> amongst many things, clearly voting rights is one thing that african-americans have to lose. we tiek a lock at texas, strict voter i.d. laws, license or gun license. you cant use student i.d. voters who normally vote democratic, it affects some 600,000 texans, about 4% of the electorate. given how elections have gone, 4% is a tremendous advantage for those trying to suppress votes. listen, democracy is pretty simple, ari. either were expanding our democracy and allowing more citizens to vote,...