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Chain migration forget that foundational principle of our immigration laws been to reunite families. this principle has been eroded in recent years and administration officials seem to be poised to make it worse." >> they are going to clean the system up. it's time to make certain that we change the way people come here. look at what recently happened in new york. the last two occurrences there, the visa lottery and chain migration. let's stop it. we know where this is happening, but we know where the weaknesses are, the vulnerabilities. and we also know that it's a fairness issue. move to a m...

Chicago and a lot of african-american democrats saying this isn't about party and we gave rahm emanuel a chance and he blew it. >> what does the rest of the state think, though, right? it's whether the democrats from the state legislature go for this proposal. >> for the rest of the state is there any fairness argument here. what flowers said to me in this argument we have this mechanism for the governor. we had to do that because of blagojevich who many people remember was indicted and it was a desire to have an extra mechanism. 41 other states allow this in some way. this is something that t...

Legislation forth and president obama drawing attention to this, to this fairness issue. this argument in texas is terrific. it's great that it's getting this attention. i'll bet you things change. >> but let me suggest that i think that's both true and not true, which is to say i agree that we have made enormous progress, particularly for women in the workforce. i'm not quite with the end of men as a theory. but we've also seen a regress in labor rights in general. and so i just think for workers in general in this moment with the very slack labor market, it's hard to make an argument about t...

That does not want to bring any of this on the floor, because it's true that if minimum wage came up, it would win. i think there are a lot of other measures that, if they could get to the floor, there would be enough republicans joining democrats to pass them. immigration reform is another within. but power in that caucus keeps obstruction going. it does. the tea party, quarterbacking this whole thing, no question about it. okay. does the president keep talking about this? i mean, everybody knows he's not going to be whining. they may call him the whiner in chief because they're not going alo...

Day's end. they are really being encouraged by democratic political strategists to not wait, to not in the words of one be listless and not be quiet and accept these problems. >> what does the white house -- are they hearing this? do you see any action? what are you hearing from them? >> reporter: certainly they are hearing it. they understand the politics even the democrats have to face with regard to these problems. but one thing that they also are going to have to face is legislation. joe manchin, another democrat who's not up for re-election but is from a very conservative state, west virg...