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Bill. >> tucker: i agree with you, actually, on infrastructure. i think he should have started it. im with you on that. but you cant look in the camera and say that giving millions of new people, poor people, work permits, is going to raise the wages of americans alreadyy here, its just not, and you know its not. so why -- >> [laughs] as i said, the president started the whole thing, were just trying to fix the problem, and thats what the democrats are trying to become a part of the solution her...

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Graduates are underemployed in america. these are u.s. citizens. why in the world would we legalize an additional 1.7 million people to compete against our own u.s. citizens who cant get a job or working part time with a college degree. >> so, i get that your argument is based on the economic part of it. there are estimates that the u.s. gdp can go down $400 billion. these huge numbers. you know it will affect kansas and estimates it will affect $300 million in your state. so, why not keep these...

Really need to push that legislation, but not by holding us hostage during that time. >> what happens if congress doesnt pass new legislation that will keep daca in place, astrid? over the next six months, the next year or so? what happens to you and 800,000 other d.r.e.a.m.ers? >> slowly people are going to start losing their work permits. as mentioned this morning, the first ones that would begin to expire would be in march of 2018. thats thousands of people in our workforce that are teachers ...

The daca program still lives. and in the presidents written statement that he was afraid to say publicly on camera, the president said work permits will be honored until their date of expiration up to two full years from today. further more, applications already in the pipeline will be processed as will renewal applications for those facing near term expiration. this is a gradual process, not a sudden phaseout. permits will not begin to expire for another six months and will remain active for up...

They hype it as much as possible and hope that there is backlash from voters, but i dont think there will be much of one. for those who are watching it closely, maybe a small group. they know he has been allowing work permits, the administration has, for these individuals throughout his time in office at the end of january. there were some things that he said that telegraph that he was losing his nerve on doing this. he is a man who makes great promises, obamacare was going to repealed and repla...

Have access to legal travel. that needed to be corrected in the first executive order. they say they will correct that in the second executive order. reporter: there is no discussion of overturning daca, the obama administrations program that allowed children who came here illegally to remain here on work permits. arthel: exit polling shows immigration was a top issue for people in florida. martha maccallum will host a town hall event right here on the fox news channel. eric: ryan priebus denyin...

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Foreign-born college graduates working in the u.s. on five-year h 1 b visas and another 120,000 are here on optional practical training two-year stays. the administrations proposal would allow more work permits for foreign-born college graduates and let them stay in the u.s. even longer. mr. obama telegraphed the move in a speech on immigration late last year. >> we should be encouraging the best and brightest to stay here. >> the tech sector has been one of the biggest boosters of immigration r...