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Jobs we are creating that no one is filling. folks can join their families. they can get in a line that doesn't stretch 20 or 25 years to come here. that's the way that we bring people out of the shadows, that we make your communities safer, that we get our laws in line with our values and the reality we see on the ground. it will not happen through walls. it will not happen with any of donald trump's scare tactics and racism and his paranoia about people who come from other places. it's got to be a realistic program. and i'll tell you, living in el paso, one-half of the largest binational com...

Jobs no one is filling. folks can join their families. they can get in a line that doesn't stretch 20 or 25 years to come here. that's the way that we bring people out of the shadows, that we get in line with the realities that we see on the ground. it will not happen through walls. it will not happen with any of donald trump's scare tactics and racism and his paranoia about people who come from other places. it's got to be a realistic program. and i'll tell you, living in el paso, one-half of the largest binational community, ciudad juarez, this is one of the largest communities in the united...

Though we are living it every single day as you are here in mcallen. so, it's very much a part of who i am. ulysses and molly and henry go to mesita elementary, but the difference today is that when amy helps them with their math homework tomorrow night, she may be helping them with their math homework in spanish. the next day, she may be doing it in english. we've made the most out of our natural advantage in the world, being this binational community. it's full dual language immersion education, not just speaking and reading but writing and computing and breathing and living in both language...

Of john francis o'rourke, father to ulysses francis o'rourke who will go as ufo for much of his life. and from day one, in el paso, and you know this in mcallen, if you are born robert or albert or gilbert or humberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you beto. that's my nickname that i've gone by for my entire life. born and raised in fourth generation in el paso in a community that is more than 80% mexican-american. as i said earlier, conjoined with ciudad juarez, 3 million people forming one of the largest binational communities in the world, so this is part of who i am and wh...

That's where the vast majority of everyone and everything that comes into this country first crosses. it has to be comprehensive. if we try to do this piecemeal through fences and walls or this measure or that, i don't think we'll ever get there and that will inherently involve compromise and finding some consensus. that's the way that i want to work and i think that's the way that people in texas of all walks of life, all backgrounds and all party affiliations want to help lead the country on this conversation. >> i want to ask you and our next audience member wants to ask you about your name...