Thats been dissipated in done away with them last 34 years and certainly after this election of cycle. The conflict to be in a progressive is part of the mainstream. I have looked at that going into the election and i feel more so now. It wasnt just about bernie and how well he did. Orgathat was very important. But its an organic organizations all over the country. Plus in coming to the Democratic Caucus and some outstandingoungw blessed figures young new members of our caucus bringing leadership from the progressive point of view. The values are mainstream. The values about empowerment, civil rights, about how the government needs to invest in people. I think its part of a whole. We had our previous to guess talk about plans with the affordable carrots, whether the state is repeal or replacement what is the plan and specifically towards that. How can he make an impact of whats done. Almost from the perception point of view here in washington, d. C. In over government administration, the senate and house. With this power comes a huge obligation to be transparent. More importantly were to repeal 61 times in the house of representatives took the vote passed it. Now as senator schumer said brilliantly, you been chasing it and now youve caught it. I believe the American People at town halls and meetings across the country when they talk aboue repeal the demand is how you are you going to replace it to guarantee those who never had insurance continue to have it. Wfordability continues to go down and more people can access healthcare. They they have a plan to present. We feel that the Affordable Care can be improved and should be improved. Its always been a question of doing onto it entirely which wec dont support to try to fix it. Now theres a situation to repeal, now they have to present something. Were going to defend those and more importantly take the same message. I think the republicans bit of something huge and they dont have an answer. Our guest if you want askepua questions, 202 7488000 we will start this morning with glenn il lancaster, california. Go ahead. Caller good morning. We have a big problem with the illegal immigration in the United States of america. Set a north to protect and serve the citizens of the United States of america. You have someone who was ordered deported who voted in elections twice which is voter fraud and you need to really go into that, check that out. You need to ask your citizens io your district to check whos registered to vote at their residence to make sure theres not people voting illegally. And with that oath of the United States of america and to, you cant work for people that are in the country illegally. Theyre criminals. And all i see is few and other representatives standing up for people that are in the United States illegally and theyre trying to change the constitution of the United States of america. Okay, well leave it there. Guest its a question that gets posed a lot of times all members of congress by particular those of us who are from southwest, those of us who happen to be latino and representative of that community. The question about fidelity to the country when you take the oath. We take the same of the well believe it. I think what is going on now is this whole issue of immigration and what we do about it has been going out from us 15 years in this country. The broken immigration system that will not get fixed byby simple slogan or political rhetoric. Its a complex issue and it demands that we do something that we do something that will last that is just and fair and provides a pathway to legalization and citizenship. I say that because we have not done that. D until we to that and tackle this issue now without the slogan we have to build the wall and send 10,000 more, we have to start the sweeps and setter communities, that will not solve the problem. Going all of those issues are not going to take care of it. President trump began the downward slide of the dialogue of what to do with immigration and feel the fire when it was a antiimmigrant rhetoric, anti mexican rhetoric and it said thats what he said. I worry now that after the ninth circuit knocked down than muslim been that were going to see the rhetoric transform into more l action on the domestic level to make up for the fact that chum doesnt look like a strong man. Those two issues and refugees in this immigration is tied together. Let me point out one thing that thatink is important to understand. That in this country we haveide. Blended families, we have families been divided, we have families being broken up and the anguish and excited the is palatable across the country. And then we have the rhetoric that refuses to accept the fact that you have to do somethinge about the 11 million plus human beings and their families in this country that make their status in this country illegal. We havent had a question yet about the dreamers. And will have a domestic issue, i dont see leadership coming from the administration, it will be up to congress. But while theres no initiative theres no part to move forward. Then it becomes more and more cemented. I dont think we have that situation and then trump has done nothing but fuel the divisive issue. And that would be not good for country and not good for wear rob it. This is robert, i guess. Go ahead. Good morning. I have a different way of looking at it, right now mr. Trump or President Trump hes not happy. Hes like more of an us and them. Its really not about the muslims in all this. Its not like how they use to on it. The whole part of the republican and democratic parties is switching because were no longer minority. Were we cant do this in the country like we are two. I think the point i got from the caller at least what i would like to comment on it is that the face of our nation is changing. And unfortunately right now thats a fear and i think that goes counter to the values of this nation. The full integration into this america farce the christian relationally as we go for. It occurred for everyone. For my parents who are immigrant and so to say that we cannot confront this reality are diverse Pluralistic Society that we live in and try to go back to a time that doesnt exist, to try to put this new reality into a past that doesnt exist, that is where the friction is, that is for the tension is. Tim grecia i dont think you see that just on the immigration side. Theres many values. Issues of Voter Suppression and trump doing 3 million fraudulent illegal that voted. Its a lie. Its been to bunked as a false figure and a false theory. But but that leads to discussion about suppressing the book. Ey general, the future of liberties, and priorities, values that americans and people are going to resist changing. Is going on in america right now is that as we define ourselves as to who were going as a country, theres a lot of people and you saw it inauguration e with the womens march and it keeps going on and on in this country. Of americans in this country that see our country to move forward and become the full country that it can be go back into a time where gains that were made generations and to lose the gains because of phenomenon of trump in the white house, i dont think people are going to tolerate that. To see a huge g push back across this country and youre going to see that democrats. Mongst its not just the loyal opposition but a very effective opposition. In the minority but i think the pulse of public the American People are very squarely on our side. Nd i think if anything is learned at the summits i went to for the progressive caucus and full Democratic Caucus is that were more unified and we nderstand now the responsibility, the American People need to see our party for allr them and fight of us. And regardless of what issue confronting at the time, i felt energized by those two meetings because i really feel the resolve is there among members to say we represent hat its truly the american we need to fight for it. We need to be strong about it. Is something i have not seen in the 14 years ive here. Host justin, akron, ohio. Line. Ican caller good morning. Are you guys enforcing the laws as they stand right now . Law is being enforced. The answer is no. Answer. Ller, let him caller you know the answer. Guest were asking for a new law because the system is broken. Effectiveness of enforcement wouldnt be a of tion, the effectiveness people reaching status in this ountry wouldnt be a point of debate. That system is broken and we talk ue to enforce and about enforcing outdated and immigration just standards that dont apply and reality urrent to the that were in right now. So when i say yes, yes. But the caveat is that the is broken. Some people dont want to fix it. A ers feel we have responsibility to fix this broken system. Host representative, 680 last rounded up in raids according to the Washington Post of homeland ment security. 75 of those were deemed criminal aliens and they said includes anyone who would enter the United States their ly or overstayed visa. Basically ink trump id away with what obama had which was prosecutorial discretion. Citizen ith two children and a husband that was admitted it with Social Security number in order to work. Shes not at the same status of to the cartel, the and runners, the abuser, violence. N that uses to me that s dense as soon as the ninth circuit truck this neighborhood sweep began in parts of the country. Inry time trump gets and now the situation is before them and its a very sad chapter by the way in this country there is always a favorite to be carpeted to go back to. We need to have a regimen. Every time he goes back to marginalize a group of people for no reason other thany political advantage and try to divert attention away from the mess that is going on. We had two members of said no further investigation was need needed. Guest fo guest for the sake of National Security and our standing in this world you have to go as deep as any to go. Who knew about it, why wasntes this brought to the attention of the president and if it was, why didnt he do something about it. I think there is more to it and there is a strong man as a nation for putin and they are under suspicion about this connection. We dont know what the investment levels were in termss of his money into private equity investment. So for the sake of transparency and National Security and for the wellbeing of this administration. Host lets hear from the democrats whine. Guest freedom isnt free. We had to fight for this freedom and i think the Illegal Immigrants and also the muslims should take advantage to go back home and demand that they do buy them and this is an example i would like to ask. If you have something to give someone, no one has given reparations for all the suffering and endurance that they have done here in america. If you have something to give someone you give it to these black kids and black peoplek living in these places in america. And if you could answer a question for me, what would you do to help these people other than to allow them in the country, you give them bombs and weapons and whatnot and you have destroyed their country so i think you should reprimand and did exactly what trump is doing. Make their country greats like america is great. Guest thank you for the service. I think if we look at the history of this nation, the contributions to the country and the military involve everyone. In disproportionate numbers to the population that is the method and i want to remind the caller one of the saddest situations i had was to receive a body in my district of the young soldier that had been killed. When the body was being transported, we drove by the city where we were going for internment and we went all the way to the border, crossed to the other side and that young man was buried in mexico. He was a legal resident in the military but there was one point there were 30,000 people in uniform that were not citizens of the United States of america. I make this point because the contributions are always thereof and if we look at the full spectrum of what we are dealing with immigration and people being here in this country, it b created and made by immigrants. Americans are the only ones that were here. The rest of us either came here. Voluntarily or that he came here and i dont want to forget thatt i think that is so important. As far as sending people back to fight im not good at exporting violence in the war. People see violence and persecution they should be welcomed people should have a process for them as well. But at the end of the day we have to remember how it was created and not a forget that part of our history as a nation. Joining on the independence line, hello. My question for the guest why is it always the fallback position to make the claims when in reality they are being the enforced and the second questi question, we heard on the news that was all set up by barack obama before he left office and all hes doing is following through on something already set up. They sent back over 400,000. Im wondering why its only when the republicans do somethingns that the democrats have something to say about it . Guest i dont believe that is factual that they were working on an old order from obama and then they decided to act on it. The other part is its difficult to answer because one has to really look at the situation because it is a simple issue ofe enforcement. Im one of the people that was critical of the 2 million plus of the deportations that obama did enforcing a law that was archaic and at the time i think the effort was to prove to republicans in congress that the administration could be tough on enforcement and we could move to make comprehensive reform. So we continue on the policy ans billions of dollars, 22,000 Border Patrol agents that is tough enforcement and the facthe of the matter is when we continue to harp on the same point without accepting the plate without accepting the reality of what we need to do which is to fix the whole system because it is broken. G jam, go ahead. Caller hello. I would first like to say i spent 32 years working for the government in active militaryotr duty and working as a Government Employee in security and intelligence. Ive got to tell this congressman from arizona stick with your guns, you are right. The republicans decided to make barack obama a one termom president from the getgo. They didnt work with him on Immigration Reform and that empowered Police Departments not throughout the country but in selected areas to enforce theira policies more from my part when you listen to some of the callers and not with compassiong or any degree of legal experti expertise. My own brother said to me i know a family of Illegal Immigrants from mexico bragging about building twice for hillary clinton. You claim that you are for law and order in all this. I said to him if he were such an upstanding citizen and no that these people are running around claiming they voted and you know it for a fact why didnt you do your duty and report them, where is the evidence of the 3 million illegal voters that are being claimed. I think the point is well taken about the obamae Obama Administration and the use of the executive orders when the gridlock and the lack of action on any major legislative initiative whether it was infrastructure building or issues with public education, the health care act, no actionfg just constant opposition to get that done so when you use executive orders is at the end where no other options were available so i supported himrt doing that. I dont think we can talk about what we are going to do in the future unless we have an understanding of where we are right now. Right now we have and. Administration with all thee power concentrated in the Republican Party in terms of legislation or any action and a sincere lack of transparency. Not everybody is on the same page and for democrats that are in the minority trying desperately to get our voice heard and agenda looked at. So our opposition isnt merely to stymie this president , although every action taken deserves every piece off resistance that hes getting, but to give a voice to the American People. I believe as i said at the beginning of the discussion that we have the interest and support of the American People here inin washington and we should use that. Sometimes its followers and sometimes it is meters but nonetheless, that is the role they need to play at this critical time in history. Th despite the power they think they have, at the end of the day we will see very shortly the American Public will be tremendous. Host thats here on the democrats line. Caller i have a quick question for actually two questions into the night walking up and let you answer them. Number one, the bees as i know in arizona right now there are 10,000 job openings for visas and these are not just text openings. Openings. Openings. What are you doing about that and why is that still around . Number two, the lady that took the Social Security number without the persons sociall security number that she took and why do we have to revamp the walllaws why dont we just follw the law . Guest i think the provisions have to be revisited and i dont think that it shoulg only be for high skilled but the whole myriad of work that is available in the country that goes unfilled needs to be looked at. But in terms of the example about the mother in arizona, she admitted to that and she was in for eight years reporting every year i c. E. Immigration and returning home. She went to report, sh reports,s arrested and deported the same night. Thats a marked difference between the efforts to show compassion and try to keep as americans Families Together andk the action taken against his mother anthismother and countler families that were divided. Demor host democrats are trying so hard to not be in the same page. Do you think that idea is being related to the democrats . A i thought th