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Coyotes bring people across. arizona is still the main place where drugs come across our border. there are guides on mountain tops in arizona guiding these drug cartels up to phoenix where drugs are then distributed throughout the country. our wildlife refugees -- sorry. our wildlife refuges are being destroyed. we have concede evidence that some of the fires have been started by illegal immigrants who were crossing our border. the damage to our desert has been horrendous and, of course, a lot of people have died in the desert because they they have bn deserted by the coyotes or they got lost ...

>> more with senator john mccain. today the supreme court issued it's decision leaving one provision standing. and governor brewer said that she thought it was a victory. then while she was speaking, a short time the 287g agreements, which is a partnership between ice and arizona struck down. governor brewer is not happy with that but she saw that as a way of to sort of mass -- emasculate anything by arizona. and now they have set up a hot line for the public to report potential civil rights concerns related to the implementation of arizona sb1070. so now there's a hot line. >> can't make it u...

There was a bipartisan effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform, and in his speech he talks about bay basically wanting to do something about immigration. what happened since then, and what happened to the 2007 deal? in 2010 it was opposed -- in 2007 it was oppose bid people on the right and on the left. it was the toughest legislative effort i have ever been involved in. we had an agreement, ted kennedy and i did, that we would vote against amendments that would cripple the bill, even if it was something we didn't believe in but would have a crippling effect. then senator obama attac...

Forward. >> a big decision today from the supreme court on the arizona statute and everyone thinks of illegal immigration as a domestic issue, whether you build a fence or don't, what we do with the people in this country. but it's also foreign policy, is it not? >> it's foreign policy because obviously other countries want to know that we have consistent laws on the books about who is in and who is out, particularly it's important to mexico. but really, greta, i think it's more important because it's the essence of who we are. we are a country of immigrants. we are, in fact, saved from the sc...

The election campaign because frankly that's not the time i think to take it up. it then takes on a color rags of politics that i think is kind of unfortunate. we have done it before. we had landmark civil rights legislation in '64 and '65 that many people didn't think had a chance. we had welfare reform in 1994 that was bipartisan, worked it out together. that's what we've got to do for immigration. >> but what is it that is going to finally get -- i mean, president obama is the leader now so it's on his watch. he gave a speech to the american university about two years ago talking about it. ...