want them to have a better life here. >> so we know that there is a lot of confusion. some of the initial provisions in this law didn't get approved, but people don't know, you know. it was initially proposed that it would be criminalized to transport immigrants within florida or to house undocumented immigrants and that didn't pass and many people don't know that. they're very scared and now community organizers were reaching out to educate them, and to tell them that they still have constitutional rights in this country. >> a lot of those provisions that weren't passed back to sb 1070 in arizona. thank you for being on set this morning. >> thank you. with us to talk more about this and much more is florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. a pleasure to see you. you know, in many ways your district kind of is a microcosm of what america is.
a lot of republican candidates lose races in swing states because in the primary they moved way too far to the right. >> so that is clearly the political calculation that his people are doing, so that he could get past a primary. but are these issues going to be just too restrictive? >> well, take this immigration issue, which you highlighted. >> a lot of issues in it that looked like sb-1070 in arizona more than ten years ago. >> exactly. while a lot of people agree that we have to get the southwest border under control and that we should have legal immigration in this country, a lot of states like florida, there is a degree humanity when it comes to undocumented immigrants because people know them, they see that they're people who are contributing. we're living at a time where there's a labor shortage in our country, it's one of the reasons why we have high inflation.
here. >> let's trash away. i grew up in arizona. i was there for sb 1070, joe arpaio, and there were a lot of opportunities where the republicans had the opportunity to reach out to latinos and they lost that because of those types of actions. so, yeah, sometimes there is a language overreach that is designed to do, you know, try to get people into your coalition while avoiding the real issues that are happening. i give you an example. now that they announced running for senate, i get a twitter message, hey, well, why would i vote for someone would is owned by the cartels? you should abe a center in mexico. i was born here, i served my krewe, and i get accused of not being a true american and it's coming from the conservative right. >> it is gross. is kevin mccarthy, who is your new leader in congress, not yours --
from a working-class family in the yucatan. it's always something that essentially an inherently racist assumption that anyone who is a slightly darker skin tone than you has something in common and belong in an acronym. this condescending view of other people, you're part of the bipac community. >> there has to be some at least understanding, at least there's an actual outreach that's happening and there's an attempt to respect for that. you have the flip side. we're trashing democrats and then at the same time, we have a party that has also not been great to latinos. >> we're trashing everyone here. >> let's trash away. i grew up in arizona. i was there for sb 1070. i was there for sheriff joe
to stop this law right now from going into effect. we heard signs of that in the attorney general's statement. he said women right now are effectively precluded from getting abortions because of the chilling effect of the law and the like this reminds me of the exercise we did in 2010 when arizona enacted sb-1070, serious restrictions on immigration. we carefully studied it and reached almost the same kind of lawsuit as here. it's about the federal government's own unique rights in this area. those two things together are a very compelling case. i do expect this lawsuit to go forward and be bad news for texas until the supreme court hears it. katie benner, you know this garland justice department. they move deliberately and is oftentimes opaque to people outside of your beat. tell me your understanding of what's going on behind the
about that day? >> again, nausea worthy. it's despicable. and it's really cynical because paul uses this to fund raise. and i think that's, actually, probably, one of the most sickening qualities is that, not only is this something that is delusional and it's criminal. if his involvement is with whatever reports that i've seen and read. that's true, then he is absolutely a part of organizing this insurrection and should be held criminally accountable for it. but he uses that beyond that, pamela, to fund raise and i find that even more despicable and disgusting. >> i mean, you would -- you could call that shameless. is that a quality that you saw in your brother, growing up? >> no, but i've certainly seen it since he started running for office in 2010. to start your campaign work aligning yourself with joe arpaio and s.b. 1070.
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happen with voters. we cannot forget that arizona is the home sb 1070, the most stringent law after governor pete wilson in california. so this has created a whole generation of young people who can vote. they are the children of immigrants who because they have the -- they can still have birthright citizenship in this country, that they are not able to vote. and that kind of activism i think that this is one of the states where i don't think that we talk enough about latino and latina voters and how they are switching the politic on the ground in a assisrizona. >> and we'll be coming back here in a hospital. joy reid will be hosting special election from florida today as democrats pour in everything that they can to upper in the state's first african-american governor in that state. an up next, what women want.
pragmatic, trying to find common ground how to deal with the national guard issue and some would say political pressure to pull back from that and move another direction and keep staying far to the left as they have been in california as far as immigration. do you think that is an accurate summation? >> the government cannot do that to federal law. you can look at the obama administration when they decided to sue the state of arizona. the state of arizona was frustrated with federal immigration laws because they believe there wasn't enough enforcement so they decided to enact sb 1070, arizona absolution to increase immigration enforcement. they ruled if you look back at justice kennedy who wrote the majority opinion out of that case, and understandable frustration with immigration