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Family, they have they're religious catholic, socially conservative, especially on brgs. these are a national constituency. they are a striving immigrant group and that is a natural conservative constituency. >> bill: joining us from washington to react is the democratic congressman luis gutierrez. so what do you think about charles' analysis that hispanic american voting block, obviously talking generally here could be persuaded to come into the republic party? what do you think about that? >> i think if you make -- charles makes an argument that has some truth to it. there are 52 million lat...

Family, they have they're religious catholic, socially conservative, especially on brgs. these are a national constituency. they are a striving immigrant group and that is a natural conservative constituency. >> bill: joining us from washington to react is the democratic congressman luis gutierrez. so what do you think about charles' analysis that hispanic american voting block, obviously talking generally here could be persuaded to come into the republic party? what do you think about that? >> i think if you make -- charles makes an argument that has some truth to it. there are 52 million lat...

Comprehensive immigration reform. he cynically told the "des moines register" two weeks ago he would pass it in 2013. never told latinos it wasn't in his pamphlet he was passing around as the second term agenda. they have right to be frustrated with him. other events taking place like sb-1070 in arizona, galvanized the electorate in grassroots, energy fundraising because it's going to become national energizing issue for them. charles is right. i speak to republican members all the time, though. they are between such a rock and a hard place. if they make just passing comment about guest visas ...

General of kansas and the author of bills like sb-1070. so long as the campaign is committed to policies like sb-1070, latinos should be aware of mitt romney's stances. >> so in a poll of latinos polled recently about what is their biggest concern, i was kind of surprised to see that immigration isn't always number one. it's really jobs and the economy. can he win over voters there? he has just started two new ads in spanish. will that sort of argument help win some people over? >> no, because the republican party refuses the to acknowledge that immigration is an economic issue for latino. whe...

System. why do you think this time the ruling could be different? >> well, the best thing to do would be to take time to read the dissenting opinion for the judge on that case and she indicated that the two majority opinion judges had grossly overstepped their bounds and misinterpreted the-- this interpreted the constitution and the key cases that dealt with this issue and because it was so bad, she was able to get half of the 10th circuit to take a second look at the appeal and this last week, we had a rehearing where 16 judges sat to hear oral arguments and it was clear from the questioning ...