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Residents spoke a foreign language at home in 2017, 85 those numbers are affected by the number of immigrants in the united states. 1980's we have amnesty that allowed three million people to become citizens >> laura: that is now 20 million that is affected by those numbers. back to tom brokaw. he said something the wrong way. okay? no immigrant understands. >> laura: do immigrant activists say anything the wrong way? they say the most outrageous things, america mystery is racist. you're living on stolen land. they accuse us -- two wrongs don't make a right. sometimes they do and i correct...

Two fences. this is one, and then you have another fence that is over closer to mexico. there is a river in between. so when those migrants who crossed over had to get over that mexican side, cross the river, and ended up here. now all is quiet. we did hear some flash bankgs, e saw perhaps may have been some tear gas at one point fired off here where we are. but as you can see there's no one on the other side, at least from this vantage point. what we're hearing from migrant activists who are also out here, a group of about 200 migrant activists showed up at a park which is about a mile away f...

California because state and local officials have spoken out against trump administration policies. you've seen the trump administration repeatedly just in january of this year threaten to criminally prosecute mayors, county officials or state officials who said we don't want to participate in the trump administration's policies. you've seen retaliation against immigrant activists like reva and jean montreal in new york just like the trump administration did last year with daniela vargas, the young woman who spoke at a rally against the trump administration and then found herself arrested and ...

Against communities in northern california because state and local officials have spoken out against trump administration policies. you've seen the trump administration repeatedly just in january of this year threaten to criminally prosecute mayors, county officials or state officials who said we don't want to participate in the trump administration's policies. you've seen retaliation against immigrant activists like reva and jean montreal in new york just like the trump administration did last year with daniela vargas, the young woman who spoke at a rally against the trump administration and ...

It's been too long. >> jose, a deal, as you know, on daca has been tied to a government spending bill. what will the reaction likely be from the immigrant community? what would your reaction be personally? >> i think an acknowledgement such a deal would be a betrayal of immigrants, of the grassroots community who democrats will need to come out in the next election cycle. democrats need to be with d.r.e.a.m.ers and activists on this deal because voting for government funding without arranging a daca deal would essentially mean that democrats are giving this administration enough money for 50,0...