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Lets -- i dont think the productive conversation, though, is about blaming the united states president for the crisis triggered by a murderous dictator in syria plus civil wars by various factions. so i think you have to have a sense of proportionality here, and i think what you need to also talk about when you talk about the refugee crisis and terror in the united states is a very big question that congress didnt address yesterday. its that we have visa programs that allow people in without eve...

Visa programs as well. but we cannot allow terrorists to intimidate us into abandoning our values and our humanitarian obligations. turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against muslims, slamming the door on every syrian refugee, that is just not who we are. we are better than that. and remember, many of these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists who threaten us. it would be a cruel irony indeed if isis can force families from their homes and then also prevent them ...

Technology. san francisco has been a sanctuary city since 1989. we now have 300 of them. every presidential cycle we talk about immigration. and yet nothing changes. this is why people are upset. so what i would say to voters is, vote for someone who has a track record, not just a talking but a doing. because of what i will do is insure we actually secure the border. what i will do is insure we actually fix the legal immigration system. >> how? >> which has been broken for 25 years. and its a co...

The plan america need on lifting our minority community out of poverty by preventing corporations to bring new workers overseas. hes talking about american i.t. companies who bring in foreign workers to pay a lower wage and laying off american workers and forcing them to train their new lower-paid foreign replacements. trump specifically addresses that saying he would put an end to that as well as other visa programs that bring in foreign workers and displace americans. bill: he was making a lot...

Reforms. the senate bill they proposed, 13 year pathway to citizenship, increase the spending $46 billion on border security. it would have mandatory workplace verification for workers, new visa programs for low skilled workers. i ask you, with the federal government spending $12 billion on customs and border enforcement to put people exactly in the place youve described in your piece, would reform even help? >> it would shortly have short-term help. when those people, the 11 million undocumente...

On this particular issue republicans do seem to be policing the rhetoric and scared of the image theyre putting forward when folks like steve king speak out like that. >> the secret here is even though in that same press conference, part of what you just showed, boehner said this would make it harder to pass immigration reform. in a lot of ways it makes it easier because it helps him define this right flank thats opposed to immigration reform as something thats out of the mainstream. obviously t...

Constituency of the gop. its coming from agricultural interests. people who are really interested in seeing visa programs passed. there is a lot of support for the various pieces of this bill and boehner, himself, has to walk a very careful tightrope. so in some ways steve king has made his job easier. >> so implicit in that, is teems youre saying boehner is actually to some degree allied with those groups, those business groups, ag groups that want something passed. is that an accurate characte...

Spokesperson, "its wishful thinking, frankly, its not a strategy for getting a bill to the presidents desk quochlt youve got one side saying according to senator schumer theyre going to pass it, the other side saying no, were not. >> well, senator schumer may have his predictions and he may have his faith in the house but hes also a senator and not a house member on the republican side. speaker boehner has made it very clear as have other republicans like trey gowdy who we interviewed on "fox ne...

Developing now within minutes they will plan. now in the meantime they were, you might say, slightly upstaged as republican senators jeb sessions of alabama and david vitter of louisiana organized their news conference detailing opposition to the plan. senator sessions already quoted as saying, quote, hes cold front confident the american public will reject it. a 13-year pathway to documented immigrants, $4.5 billion to help secure u.s./mexico border and new visa programs and high and low skille...

What day to talk about these issues that really matter, not only the 6th of november but going to be important going forward for both democrats and republicans. >> jose, lets talk first about the immigration piece because theres been a lot of talk in republican circles about what the party needs to do to increase hispanic electorate. as of recent days we know that republicans on the house are touting support for an immigration bill that effectively focuses on highly educated immigrants. its a st...