And adult immigrants can live legally and without fear if they admit culpability. Passckground checks background checks, pay fines, and back taxes. We want to hear from republicans only for this first segment. What do you think from this immigration per proposal . If you agree, 202 5853880. If you disagree, 202 5853881. Republicans only for this first segment of the washington journal. You can get in via twitter as well. Facebook. Com cspan. Journal at cspan. Org. House Speaker John Boehner told theyters that they thought had to make a goodfaith offer. This problem has been around. From politico this morning boehner has long said that the house would not take up the Senate Immigration bill, but would consider it in several discrete bills. For any immigration bill to get a vote, he has said it must first gain support from a majority of the republican conference. Ted cruz has reacted to the plan. This is on breitbart. The amnesty push will rule in hopes of retaking the senate. He thinks that the house gops leadership to grant amnesty to illegal aliens would destroy the Republican Partys is at retaking the senate in 2014. This is a quote. Amnesty is wrong in any circumstance. If we are going to fix our broken immigration system, and we should, it makes much more sense to do so next year, said so that we are negotiating a responsible solution with a Republican Senate majority rather than with chuck schumer. Anyone pushing an amnesty bill should go ahead and put a harry reid for majority Bumper Sticker on their car because that will be the likely effect if republicans refused to listen to the American People and foolishly change the subject from obamacare to amnesty. Ton mccain has also reacted the republican proposal. Here is what he had to say. He praised House RepublicanImmigration Reform principle. The us is in the hill newspaper. He praised house gop leaders for issuing Immigration Reform principles that reflect the senate bill. I think they are fine. I will support everything theyre doing and certainly will not take shots from the sidelines. Aflcio chairman called the principles a nonstarter as they would not offer a special pass to citizenship for Illegal Immigrants. If you are a republican and you support this proposal, 202 5853880. , if you are a republican and you are disagreeing with this reform proposal. We will begin with john. A republican in watertown, new york. Caller good morning. I emphatically disagreed with this proposal for several reasons. Nowfirst reason is right our unemployment is still depending on who you listen to anywhere between 6. 5 or 7. 5 . We need to enforce the laws we have on the books right now instead of trying to add more people to a weak economy. Andfact that the democrats the republicans both are looking at this and saying it is that will get the more votes in the Upcoming Elections is shortsighted and foolish. Thank you. Nic is from cleveland, georgia. Calling from cleveland, georgia. Caller good morning. Good morning, america, i should say. What were are saying is this kind of legalization to those that were formerly known and still are by government isinition as illegal aliens a slap in the face to american citizens. This is being brought to us now onehowever,ise day they are in juarez, mexico and the next day they are in el paso. Food care, education, to me it is disloyal to the american citizens. Commerce, on that side. Taking away the rights of the people. About Corporate America. Often, Corporate America is with the Republican Party. Isnt it . Caller exactly right. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. These are special interests that put their own special interests ahead of basic rights for american citizens. There is no one blameless here, that is why i say they are dumbo tards. Nd republican we need to be loyal to the american citizens. Host has immigration or illegal immigration affected you personally . Caller both of them have. Definitely. Sometimes the north georgia, you cannot get a job without hiring illegal aliens. That is wrong for americans who are looking for work. It has subverted the rule of law, absolutely it has affected me. Host thank you sir. If you support this proposal and you are a republican, the numbers are up on the screen. We want to hear from you as well. From the hill newspaper as well. The house gop campaign chief said that any floor vote on Immigration Reform is probably months out, downplaying the possibility that the party will move quickly to legislation after considering a series of Leadership Principles this week. Mark in long beach, california. Caller are there any republicans who agree . The idiot, scumbag Republican Leadership [indiscernible] obama and the democrats are laying out the to be rolled and the Republican Party wants to give amnesty to the illegal aliens invading border criminals. How insane is that . Theyre going to get pounded in the next election if they do this. Nothing will save that. The republicans are overwhelmingly opposed to this despite all of the phone calls by the lying media. This does not make any sense. Host hang on one second. Let me read you a paragraph about the political angle and see what you have to say. 2012 was a critical moment in the debate. President obama won reelection partly because of strong support from hispanics. There you go again. Illegal him aliens are not immigrants. Illegal aliens [indiscernible] government of the United States is going to tell its citizens that tens of millions of criminals are going to be rewarded with one of the best things you can get status in the United States then america has become lie all you can lie, cheat all you can cheat, and steal all you can steal. It is the suckers and the losers who will be left in america at this point. Host sara. A republican in annapolis, maryland. Caller i do agree. I am an immigrant myself. However, it is a human issue. You cannot deport 11 Million People. You have a lot of these Illegal Immigrants who have children that are born here that are fullfledged, american citizens. See is that like to if there is legalization, i think it would be important to address the border issue so that in another 20 years you did not have another set of 10 or 11 Million People who come here illegally, going through the same thing again. There has to be something they can do to prevent this from happening again. I do not see that illegal aliens take away the jobs, unless you find a lot of americans who want to work in the agricultural industry. They worked very hard, generally speaking. Lete that are good people, them stay here. That are lawabiding. Those that are problems i think that, take care of it. Host where are you from originally . Caller im originally from germany. I think that being white i do think that there is also a racial issue involved here. Host why are you a republican . Caller i do think that has something to do with that as well the race. I do like some of the republican ideas. I do want the story fiscal responsibility. But there are also some issues that i would say i am rather liberal. Sometimes orer think that i should be more of an independent. To me it is a human issue. We are talking real ive see her. Lives here. We are talking people. We need to do the right thing and look at what kind of nation do we want . Immigration has been a very important part of this country and i get that people complain about illegals versus legal immigration. You also have to look at the reality of where these people are coming from. You look at south americans and what theyre going through to come here and you look at their home countries and the issues that are taking place there, whether or not it is gangs, corrupt government it is quite amazing that these people have such a strong drive to still make it. Were talking about human beings. It is a human issue. I really think the Republican Party would be well advised to take that into consideration. Just hang on the line for a minute. Lets hear from a republican who disagrees. This is know what in tennessee. In tennessee. Why do you disagree . Unfair tothink it is the immigrants and illegal aliens. I dont think they should be called that. It is just racist. I think they should be able to come into the United States freely. It is almost impossible just to be racist against them. You should not be doing that. Just let the men. How old are you . Host im 12 years old. Thats all im going to say. Why do you think you are a republican at 12 years old . Caller im kind of a democrat and candidate republican. Host you think people should be free to move across the borders . Caller yes. Host sarah, what do you think . Caller i think moving freely across the border would push it a little bit too far for me. We are a country of laws. Every country does have laws. Immigration policies. I just think that for the ones that are here already, as i said, is it realistic to push 11 Million People out of the country . You cannot enforce it. You do not have enough manpower. I live in maryland. There are a lot of hispanics here. There are people who work with the community of hispanics they are here their children are american citizens because they were born here. You want to deport the parents and leave the children here . It is ludicrous to me. Border theye should have done that years ago, which they did not. It shows us how ineffective our congresses. There are good things about both parties. The inability for them to Work Together to get something going in the country to serve the common good. Host i think we got the point. Thank you for your time. Betty in iowa city, iowa. What do you think about this proposal . I am flabbergasted. Ways. So wrong in so many i lived in california before the amnesty that reagan put through. There were republicans and democrats. It was more like 5050. Propositions would go up, they had fantastic propositions to vote on. A proposition would go up and one of them was about denying benefits to illegal aliens. Naturally it passed. The courts struck it down. Then all benefits were pretty much open to illegal aliens. Along andmnesty came they thought there would be about one million or so. Casesre still handling from 1985 or 1986. People are still appealing their cases. Legal, it was like a flood just happened. Is sohe entire state different. To paywho are not going the taxes to support all of the welfare that is demanded by the illegals that are there. By the way, they vote. They do not have to be citizens. They get a drivers license and they vote. The demand on the school system, the medical benefits that is why the taxes are so high. Host thanks for calling in. From the washington post. Waxman to retire. The walls are covered with picture frames holding pens used by every president since jimmy carter. Among the legislation were laws to make infant formula safer and being lowprice generic drugs to market, clean the air, provide services and medical care to people with aids, and reform and modernize the postal service. He was instrumental in the passage of the Affordable Care act. The answer to a 2012 jeopardy question about him was the mustache of justice. The scope of achievements he can seemi am claim would nearly unimaginable in today pottsgrove gridlock, polarized congress. Part gridlock today s gridlocked, polarized congress. From politico, sandra fluke may run for the seat. She was denied the opportunity to testify at a hearing on obamacares contraception requirements. She is strongly considering a bid for his seat. I am flattered that im being discussed as a potential candidate. Folks have reached out and encourage me to run. I am strongly considering running. Jim is a republican in dexter, michigan who agrees with the proposal on immigration. Caller thank you for taking my call. This problem has been going on for at least 30 years. This is the first time i have seen anything that actually addresses the issue. It republican, i can buy into the concepts being proposed. I need more details. How much are we talking about in taxes to the have to pay . What are the penalties . How do we actually get them registered . Speaking, i think this is a step in the right direction. I can support it. Host where is dexter, michigan . Caller very close to ann arbor. Host do you have immigrants up there . Caller oh yeah, a lot of them. Oh sure. Probably more run detroit and ann arbor, but im sure there are a lot of them here. Host thank you for calling in. John is in port st. Lucie, florida. On the republican disagree line. Caller thank you for that wonderful news about mr. Waxmans retirement. You made my day. For the postal service. I love how these numbers change. How did we get to 11 million . It was 12 million just a few years ago. That mantra was spoken for many years. I guess they did self to port during the let selfdeport during the recession. Areink the republicans shooting themselves in the foot. If they gain anything, it will be negated from their base. One last thing, if anything, if you listen to all of the calls over the years from cspan into cspan, this unites everybody. Blacks, whites, hispanics that are here legally and have been for years, paying their taxes nobody wants this to go through who is here legally. All of you here is the special interest groups, the special leftwing groups for the Hispanic Community but if you listen to who calls into your station, if there is one thing that unites us together as a country it is this illegal immigration that we want stopped. Thank you. Losi says,e my work is not finished. Her future is a perennial topic of discussion in washington. I am running, i have already started the paperwork ross us. Process. My work is not finished. Bill clinton and barack obama to address senate democrats. President obama and former president clinton will be the headline speakers at the retreat next week at the Washington National stadium. Greg is calling on our disagree line from florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host why are you disagreeing . About i started thinking eight years ago when everyone was saying the democrats wanted to let the illegals and for thend the republicans democrats wanted them and for the vote and the republicans wanted them for labor, the real reason is the bernie made off bill. Neither obama or boehner can stand up and say that basically bankrupted this. Madoff,rnie made off they want 30 million new taxpayers in the country. I am a construction engineer. I have had to deal with this firsthand. I respect the labor efforts of the illegals. However, they cannot read the plans, the specifications, they cannot do the whole industry is not going to be written up in spanish. Bilingual people have had to be hired to address the needs, but they are not educated in pharmacy and banking at a lot of places with the have positions just because theyre bilingual. This will bankrupt the country. I think the real reason the government is letting the man is that they cannot face the American People and say, we have spent your money, we are out of money, and we needed new blood source. Host what about politically . Does it help or hurt the Republican Party . Caller it will hurt them. They want a small piece of the pie. I do not think they can swing the vote over from the free ride that the president is offering everybody. Host from the New York Times on this issue, at least in its broad strokes, it does not degree a path to citizenship, but does necessarily does not necessarily preclude one, something that is likely to be a dealbreaker for democrats and immigration activists. A republican in linden, michigan. Caller good morning. I called in on the agree line. This proposal made by the republicans is nothing more than a political tool. It will never get to through the senate. The republicans have helped themselves with the hispanic or immigrants and now the ball will be in the senates court. The democrats will never approve it because it does not have blanket amnesty. Republicans are winning. To it is up to the democrats look like they are against immigration. Have i made myself clear . Host yes. Sheila is in massachusetts on our disagree line. Caller good morning and thank you. Thaty brings up the fact amnesty goes through and people will be able to work in the United States legally, which means they will have to have insurance. Aca,g the hearings on the it was told that you have to be your citizenship has to be verified. So what happens to these 11 25,000,000 people that come in . They will overload medicaid, medicare systems and we will have problems with health care. I agree with all the people who have called to disagree. I think we are running into this way too fast. Legal immigration is wonderful, we need it. These people are going to be low income. The whole entire safetynet system is going to go right through the floor. Thank you for taking my call. Times, am the new york senator arrested a senators son was arrested on drug possession and trespassing charges. Jedediah udall was taken into after a man matching his description was trying to break into cars in eldorado springs, california. He admitted to having used heroin in the past 48 hours. With four counts of firstdegree criminal trespass and one count of drug possession. He was released on 1500 bond. Mr. Udall, a first term senator ,ho is facing reelection released a statement in which he and his wife expressed support for their son and asked for privacy. His first brush with the law. In december, he was cited by law charges of on walking out of a store without paying for ad phil and imodium. Scott is a republican in oak view, california. He agrees with the big immigration proposal. Scott . Richard in lake placid, florida. Disagree line. Caller good morning. Strongly disagree i agree with a lot of other colors callers. These illegal criminals who come into the country do not help the country at all. I got a report that they send back to their home