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The nation's mayors are meeting this weekend, where else, las vegas. the mayors will hear from vice president joe biden. the immigration debate is one of the hot topics at that meeting. scott smith is the mayor of mesa, arizona. proud home of the chicago cubs spring training camp. i spent a lot of childhoods there. the incoming president the u.s. conference of mayors. i want to get right off the bat, there's been a real strong push toward immigration reform. is that the solution in your eyes? >> it's one part of a solution. you've got to focus on border security. i think they've said that from...

America, because i'm ultimately for any american who wants to do any job first. but in the absence of being able to achieve that, then how do we have those people come here with labor protections as well. that's part of what we're going to work towards. >> there is a major focus on border security. i want to point out just last year, the united states spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement. border crossings are at a 40-year low there are over 21,000 border agents and six unmanned aircraft patrolling the border. why such a focus on border security when we've made so much of a commitment s...

Under the law to do certain jobs that maybe we cannot get in america, because i'm ultimately for any american who wants to do any job first. but in the absence of being able to achieve that, then how do we have those people come here with labor protections as well. that's part of what we're going to work towards. >> there is a major focus on border security. i want to point out just last year, the united states spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement. border crossings are at a 40-year low there are over 21,000 border agents and six unmanned aircraft patrolling the border. why such a focus...

Thought it was terrorism from the beginning, buttal of us thought -- but all of us thought it's an act of terror. they also thought there was a protest that preceded the assault. the general thought that, the intelligence community thought that, and they were wrong. and, you know, one of the questions that i've been asking is why did it take us so long to get it right, but it did take us time. in particular, it took us time to get some of the video evidence that was really the most telling in terms of the chronology of what took place. there are also, i think, some legitimate questions about t...

One, apparently better organized with the use of mortars, that kind of thing, that hit the cia safehouse some hours later. are you thinking that perhaps some of the lives lost in that second attack could have been saved or should have been saved? >> well, you know, i think it's really a question of whether we had adequate security there and how much of this we can foresee. um, the folks that were involved acted in the most heroic ways, and i wish we could get out more of the information, frankly, about the heroism involved in those that were at the annex and those at the diplomatic post. one o...