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Achieve act. alternative to dream act. that grants a pathway for citizenship for imgrants seeking a college education and military experience but who turn down welfare. bret? >> bret: doug, thanks. home prices and consumer confidence are both up here in the u.s. but perhaps some of the most confident consumers about home prices are not from america. correspondent william la jeunesse explains from los angeles. >> realtors linda and brent cater to buyers in the wealthy los angeles suburb of san marino, where a recent influx of chinese helped stabilize the market. >> this is the formal dining r...

Communities and talk to them, but at the same time we don't need to change our agenda. too many republicans think we need to abandon our agenda, and we need to become a different kind of party, and washington clearly doesn't need two liberal parties. >> reporter: he says this bill allows the beneficiaries to invite their families to the united states, their wives, their husbands, their children which present green card holders in many cases cannot do, so it respects family values in that sense. the present law does not allow that. at the same time, senate republicans are unveiling their own an...

Legislation. american businesses, companies say they need the high skilled workers. and they are not finding enough. >> sponsors say the stem bill is appealing to the conservatives and the immigrants and allows beneficiaries to bring families to the u.s., and blocking the brain drain caused by the u.s. trained foreign born engineers returning home. >> the communities agree with us on a lot of the issues. the problem is that they don't even listen to us, because they think we don't welcome them in our party. nothing could be further from the truth. we want more people to join our party. >> the ...

Billion a year. why peter defazio says we're better off going off the fiscal cliff and senator marco rubio working on a new proposal for immigration reform. it's similar to the so-called achieve act. what's the difference? we'll talk with nbc's raul reyes. he says in this case it may be better to dream than to achieve. after getting heat for gender discrimination, toys "r" us have now revamped one of their catalogs outside of the u.s. boys playing with dolls and girls with play guns. this is our news nation gut check. be sure to check out the news nation page. you'll see it behind newsna...

>> are you a little skeptical? we know the elections have -- if i hear this again -- have consequences but we know they do and 'zo demographics. is it that you see this effort as insincere or political gamesmanship in hopes of not suffering major losses two years from now? >> i think it's a little bit of both, a little bit of window dressing. but this is something latinos have followed so closely. latinos -- republicans and democrats alike, something like 91% latinos are in favor of the d.r.e.a.m. act. so they're following this closely and they recognize that the achieve act. it's like an infe...