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Connecticut? [laughter] >> but my mom was puerto rican, she came here lawfully. so many of us have immigrant backgrounds, this is the type of thing that you do. go through the process, do it correctly. do it in way that's lawful so, therefore, you don't face deportation. >> yeah. what secretary kelly said in the beginning of this piece was that the laws are on the books, and it's as simple as that. under the immigration and national nationality act, any alien who's here illegal is deportable. and the obama administration had a policy, and they actually memorialized it in a 2014 memorandum that...

Development. $1.6 billion -- $is.8 billion of that for cancer. this is a bipartisan consensus, and i think that -- i hope that they will continue to deal with the reforms we made that's why i'm going to be setting up a biden initiative that is going to be designed to follow on the work we did in the private sector. >> there was a moment i was in baghdad with you on july 4th, some years ago, and you and dr. biden, you were swearing in new citizens. they were american troops. many from immigrant backgrounds, and i was thinking about the dreamers, and all these executive orders that are going to ...

Setting up a biden initiative that is going to be designed to follow on the work we did in the private sector. >> i want to ask you about -- there was a moment. i was in baghdad with you on july 4th some years ago and you and dr. biden, you were swearing in new citizens. they were american troops. >> that's right. >> many from immigrant backgrounds. i was thinking about the dreamers and all these kutd executive orders that are going to be reversed. what is our thought as i saw those soldiers -- bo was still in service then. >> some of them were decorated soldiers, silver stars, bronze stars. a...

French person, and we are also discovering that a lot of the heroes of that night of terror, the people who hid other people, the people who stopped suicide bombers at the stadium, these people, what were their names? their names were samir. they were very probably muslims as well. certainly they were from immigrant backgrounds. that's the kind of thing that builds solidarity in this country. i think that certainly is one good thing that's coming out of this. >> chris dickey, you are so right. thank you. one more question to lester holt about the mood of the place. it was midnight your time, k...

Mistaken for being the rule. and they have the loudest microphone because they're performing in ways that are absolutely unamerican and are speculatab speculatables. they put fear in brown skinned people who are looking to come across the border and brown skinned people, and that is fine, that is their right under the free press. and malcolm x said our study in history is best qualified to reward research. i think we have to understand there is a lot of a-historical people out here. we have to look at history and understand with the exception of the vast majority of my ancestors, the vast majo...