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Period. they don't know about their future. now is the time to solve this problem and do it once and for all. >> judy miller, adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research and investigative journalists. the fox news contributor, we are going to jump right in here. i want to talk about this discharge petition, which could put the immigration issue bill on the floor come june 25th. the discharge position as we know is an idea i'm a plan to coax gop leadership in defining republican red compromise. could this in and of itself be problematic for the gop as a whole? >> i think it is...

I want to read an op-ed from john kasich in "usa today" about daca. if members fail to agree on a daca solution, with or without using a discharge position, that's something that some republicans are signing on to, democrats, i fear congress will never have the confidence to tackle far more complex immigration issues. in fact, inaction on daca suggests to me our current congress given today's hyperpartisan atmosphere may be totally incapable of solving any complex problem at all. what do you think about that? >> well, governor kasich is precisely right in this case. this daca issue should not ...

Certainly for republicans but also an economic issue, they have all the democrats in the house and a lot of house republicans signing this discharge position to actually force votes on the daca issue, so the president would be right to get out in front of it. in the meantime, the other thing that you should do is say, i'm not going to wait for congress to fix this issue. whatever he can do to fix the system as it currently stands within the federal government, about keeping track of these children, he could lay that out, too. i don't know if you saw this over the weekend because you on like me...

To convince them that that's accurate when it's not, he'll continue to do so. >> alan, so what is the recourse? >> the only recourse is for congress actually to do something. that's one of the only things that people can agree on in the immigration world is that our laws are incredibly outdated. the administration is right, there's a lot of things that they cannot control. yes, he absolutely changed the policy and by issuing this zero tolerance policy, meaning that everybody who crosses over will be criminally prosecuted, that then gets into this idea -- into all these laws that require them t...

Vote on this and potentially other immigration numbers as well. you aren't one of the republicans who is a part of that group. why not? >> first off i do believe we need to get immigration done. that's something that congress needs to work on. in the end, this bill has too many open ends for me. there are four bills that could be brought to the table. i want to see something of substance. i'm not opposed to discharge petitions. it is regular order but at the same time i think this has too many open ends to it. i do think, though, that having this discharge position will help move immigration a...