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Central databases and they are encouraged to be pro active. bret? >> bret: the senate's contentious immigration bill is now officially in play. lawmakers have begun voting on hundreds of proposed amendments. chief congressional correspondent mike emanual is on cloil tonight where the so-called gang of 8 is worried about a poison pill. >> reporter: immigration reform in the senate has entered the mark up phase with the judiciary committee reviewing 300 amendments. >> one of my greatest concerns about this legislation is it's so called drafted is its border security provisions are not meaningful...

Suggested that the immigration bill being hammered out in the senate may need stronger border security provisions to pass. >> i expressed to president that i'm opt a mystic about us getting this done because it's the right thing to do. we've seen leaders from both parties indicate that now is the time to get comprehensive immigration reform done. what i'm not going to do is to go along with something where we're looking for an excuse not to do it, as opposed to a way to do it. >> nbc's kristen wellker traveling with the president today joins us live from mexico city. one of the potential point...

Advocates for reform rallied nationwide and outside the u.s. capitol to persuade lawmakers to fix the immigration system is. at this point the senate's deal is still taking shape, but the bill requires strict border security provisions to be in place before providing a path to citizenship. for the first time in two and a half decades, immigration reform just might be possible. and the american people are embracing it. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll released today shows that 54% of americans agree with the statement that immigration adds to the nation's character and strengthens it. ...

To make sure that their border security provisions are as tough as they can make them and still have democrats agree. rick: lindsey graham, one of the leading republicans in the senate who's been talking in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, he was on fox news channel earlier today, let's take a listen to what he said. >> it's about controlling jobs, controlling the border, having a guest worker program so you can access legal work, a legal work force when you can't find people here to do a job at a competitive wage. but at the end of the day, i think immigration reform is going to hel...

We can address the issue of chain migration is the president said and we have done that. we have -- that was a bipartisan solution. >> democratic leadership is using the president's alleged comments last thursday as leverage to get a daca deal without border security provisions but now two senators were were in that meeting are doubling down on a statement they released late last week in which they said they didn't recall the president using that language. yesterday saying definitively, he didn't say it. listen. >> i'm telling you he did not use that word. it's a gross misrepresentation, how m...