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So there is some sense that we need to solve that problem, because president trump kicked that back to congress to give them a six-month deadline to deal with this. we treat immigration in success of presidencies as a criminality program instead of a prohibition problem. theres a lot of people outside the law, its because they are criminals. we are not thinking about it right. its because the laws are not acknowledging the reality of supply and up demand here. the realities of supply and demand ...

Immigration reform is actually at this point actually a bad idea. i agree with him on that. i think you have to de-comprehensivefy it. you have to say, i think the problem is we have insufficient number of legal pieces, and its a two-bureaucratic system. make that number bigger, and suddenly treat it as a prohibition problem rather than treating it as a criminality problem, and you can flip it. but i think rubio has played it pretty well so far. the thing is, hes now the front-runner in the bett...

Getting the government involved every single relationship between consenting adults. usually, we dont like that, suddenly when its about immigration, they want that to happen t. problem is we dont look at illegal immigration as a prohibition problem. it fundamentally is. when that many people are doing something illegal maybe something is out of line. ronald reagan understood is that. >> understood that and said lets more people that want to work legally. fewer will cheat? >> the trump campaign,...

Congress eventually. the problem is this is just the way politics and deals are getting done now in front of camera and people are trying to make issues out of it. another problem is this is comprehensive. the reformers made the deal of it has to be comprehensive immigration reform. the bigger the deal, the bigger the bill, the harder it is to get things passed and the harder it is for everyone to swallow bits of it. you could chop this up into smaller parts and get something done, recognize thi...

Can around immigration, and it is an open borders perspective? >> well, that requires doing something. >> yes. >> and any time that you have tens of millions of people who are breaking a law, and you can look at it as a lawlessness problem which a lot of people do, and especially the republicans when they talk about this, or you can look at it as a prohibition problems and just like the war on drugs is a prohibition problem particularly on marijuana, in many cases the immigration system here is ...

Causing the cycles of poverty and pathologies and we have to look at it, as a prohibition problem. >> well, to the extent that the dreamers are beginning to create pressure for congress, it is because they borrowed another thing from a different movement, and not only the kids part of the civil rights movement, but the coming out of the closet part of the lgbt movement saying im notes a shamed to be undocumented, but this is how i am contributing. so what does media or journalism do as part of t...

Enforce and what can be eradicated through enforcement and what cannot be. i want you to talk about what your experience on the front lines was of the plausibility or possibility of enforcement as a means of actually coming to some point in which we have declared victory or won the war on drugs. >> its simply not going to happen. everyone involved in this knows we cant win. we can sort of the maintain the violence status quo that involves lots of incarceration but it doesnt reduce the violence. ...

If you get the nomination, those people will vote for you anyway. and pivot, and i actually think, perversely, you can make an argument, the best chance for comprehensive immigration reform would essentially be a republican punking his own base on the issue. >> i think that hes actually doning it correctly right now. which is similar to what john mccain did back in 2007. remember, his campaign was almost torpedoed by hostility towards his work on a comprehensive immigration campaign. >> yep, ken...