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Big government. a thousand employees at $50 million. let me tell you how many people theyre dealing with. theyre dealing with five million undocumented immigrants or illegal aliens. that is the entire population combined of north dakota, south dakota, alaska, vermont, delware, and one other state that i cant think of. six states. do you really think that 1,000 people can take these five million, investigate them, provide them each with social security, work permits, photo i.d.s? this is the begi...

Officers rafael ramos and wenjian liu are laid to rest. do you agree with calls for protesters to hold off until the police officers are laid to rest? go to "newsnation".msnbc.com. theres a lot going on this morning. in arizona the undocumented immigrants known as dreamers will be able to apply for drivers licenses today. a judge ruled that arizona must stop denying licenses to dreamers who receive work permits through defer the action program. and alaska senator lisa mccow

Amnesty with chuck. we gave work permits. >> like the drug wars. spending money to keep them out of the country. that doesnt work well. seems like its like fighting the drug war. >> when reagan was expecting border security, that never happened. it was one of three parts that never happened. we are doing the same thing now. we are not dealing with employers hiring illegals or extra border security. we are doing is same thing we did in 86 and 87. it didnt work then and wont work now. >> thanks. ...

Minority associations took part in that. ♪ ♪ >> that means protect the constitution and the separation of powers. the president has claimed the authority to write laws out of the oval office of the white house. he has no such authority, and weve got to have a vote to prove that. martha: congressman steve king accusing the president of executive overreach on immigration. conservatives are pushing to use the power of the purse to block his deportation order including congresswoman michele bach...

Spending bill. the congresswoman, soon to be the ex congresswoman, michele bachmann is joining me now. i want to talk about what youre planning to do but you hated this $1.1 trillion bill. you voted against it. tell us why. >> i did. because it funded the presidents illegal work permits and the members of the house of representatives wanted a chance to be able to at least vote on defunding the work permits. that provision wasnt allowed to us. the bill came out really late and we didnt have a tim...

Permits. its the work permits that are most damaging to the most vulnerable members of storyociety. >> right. and the 5 1/2 million people benefitting are people who have u.s.-born children. its not only stopping the deportation, its freezing deportations for three years for people who have children in this country. so what do you do with the 11 million people roy? what do you think happens with them? >> what i think happens is that if youre not deporting them youre dealing with that issue you j...

Breaking the law, right? thats what youre saying if you dont give work permits. >> what youre saying is its time to go to the illegal employers. we would have almost no illegal immigration in this country if we didnt allow employers to hire illegal workers. one administration after another, this is a republican and democratic problem. one administration after another is refused to hold these employers responsible. what, you know, some kind of a grand comprise would involve perhaps not suspending...

>> the fact that they were getting this ready and then obviously preparing for this action long in advance. i think it also underscores the point because some people at home might be thinking, hang on. i thought this was enforcement discretion to put off or suspend indefinitely a bunch of deportations for a bunch of illegal immigrants. why does that require hiring dozens of people? well, because theres also the issuance of legal work permits. >> a lot going on this issue. thanks for your insight...

Discretion is to be made on a case-by-case basis. thats not whats being done here. there is a blanket prosecutorial discretion being applied to 4 million people. when you have prosecutorial discretion, a prosecutor is deciding not to prosecute an offender. in this case what the federal government is doing is affirmatively giving benefits to the people they are not prosecuting. benefits like work permits, social security and medicare. thats foreign to the concept of prosecutorial discretion. mart...

Thats really what democracy is. >> but that also matters, right? in a sense that i dont think its the thing that should be definitive. >> ets just a sfarting point. >> i think its remarkable that in the face of all of that protest, the spongs has been so tepid. they can come out with millions of work permits. >> this is going to be really interesting. when we think about this next chapter, the last two years of the obama presidency, i think about the trajectory about how