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Republicans against it. lets be blunt, thats the fight. neither side has offered a compromised proposal which would actually become law which would deal with the problem. i believe the republicans are bsing the country about the fact theyll throw out 20 or 30 million people. its never, ever, ever going to happen. theyre promising something thats never, ever going to happen. the democrats, on the other hand, have been pretty much weak in stating exactly how theyre going to stop illegal immigratio...

>> youre saying theyre enforcing the law in order to impress the republicans. not because they believe its the right thing to do? >> i dont agree, richard, with that. i think theyre enforcing the law because part of the problem with our broken system is we havent been enforcing the law. i think thats part of the job of what theyre supposed to be doing. look, i also think when we talk about cracking down on those who hire me, that is the sticky little piece that always seems to get away. if you l...

What would congress do on same-sex? >> i dont know that it would be congress, i just mean the progressive community sort of bringing that to the fore as an issue for debate. look, part of what were going to be seeing next year is both sides are going to be trying to position themselves as competent leaders as we head into the 2012 election cycle. we know that president obama has got to show he can get things done. republicans, theyre going to be in the house reeflektd two years. they have got to...

Retreat. we need to stand firm on this issue of immigration reform. we have republican members of congress talking about opening up and changing the constitution of the united states of america and their birth right. >> i know why youre doing this because you dont want to draes the key issue. >> no, i do want to address the key issue. democrats need to stand up very firm for it. >> were not going to get anywhere unless both sides trust the other side. it seems to me that democrats are not trustw...

Republicans have been against it. lets be blunt, thats the fight. neither side has offered a compromised proposal which would actually become law which would deal with the problem. i believe the republicans are bsing the country about the fact theyre going to throw out 20 or 30 million people. its never, ever, ever going to happen. theyre promising something thats never, ever going to happen. the democrats, on the other hand, have been pretty much weak in stating exactly how theyre going to stop...

Your responses, im looking for some kind of social agenda, positive social agenda for the democrats and the progressives. i dont hear anything, richard. why am i not hearing anything from you? a social agenda like public option, like health care, like something like that? lets start with with that. wheres the social agenda for 2011? >> i can give you the whole wish list of what people want, but whats realistic here, and of course, neither of us have mentioned the most obvious thing of all which ...

Your responses, im looking for some kind of social agenda, positive social agenda for the democrats and the progressives. i dont hear anything, richard. why am i not hearing anything from you? like public option, like health care, like something like that? lets start with with that. wheres the social agenda for 2011? >> i can give you the whole wish list of what people want, but whats realistic here and of course neither of us have mentioned the most obvious thing of all which is the economy. jo...

Lou dobbs who has made himself an emblem to this get-tough approach to immigration including advocating, as you mentioned, lawrence, for felony charges to be used against employers who hired undocumented worker, i found that lou dobbs himself has been exploiting undocumented labor. and the question that im really still hoping for an answer that i hope mr. dobbs can provide us for an answer to is where does the buck stop? i mean, lou made himself an emblem to this approach to immigration and he h...