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What does an illegal alien look like? is the police going to have the power to stop someone for any particular reason? i read it, paragraph "e" it says a law officer, without a warrant, can stop you, if he suspects you are in this country illegally. that's too broad. we agree that arizona's going through a terrible situation. and if the governor brewer, if she did this to bring national attention, she's done a good job and i applaud her for that. but this law won't do. we're not going to allow this to become second class citizens. every time there's an economic pinch, hispanics, mexican-americ...

I read it, paragraph "e" it says a law officer, without a warrant, can stop you, if he suspects you are in this country illegally. that's too broad. we agree that arizona's going through a terrible situation. and if the governor brewer, if she did this to bring national attention, she's done a good job and i applaud her for that. but this law won't do. we're not going to allow this to become second-class citizens. every time there's an economic pinch, hispanics, mexican-americans to be more precise, we're the whipping boys. that ain't going to happen. we're more numerous than african-americans...

Are brown or might speak spanish. >> well, that brings us to mr. rubio in florida, is he exempt from the myopia of the tea party that seems to envelope him on every other subject because of his ethnic background? what is is the rationalization here? >> i suspect it does have something to do with his ethnic background and his understanding of the immigrant experience through what his parents went through. you know, maybe there's a bit more there than we have seen, from his earlier pronouncements, but at least it is kind of encouraging that, on an issue that assumes hits this close to home for h...

And they can be stopped arbitrarily, they don't have to have done anything wrong. this is exactly in the tea party wheelhouse. and so where are the tea party demonstrations? and i wondered in the column this morning whether there's some sort of asterisk or exception for the citizens who are brown or might speak spanish. >> mr. rubio in florida, is he exempt from the myopia that envelopes him because his background? >> i suspect it does have something to do with his ethnic background and his understanding of the immigrant experience through what his parents went through. you know, maybe there's...

Clear, there's a thing called birth tourism to use a phrase which i think is better and those people are people with a lot of money from abroad who come here and don't -- it's not an anchor, they have the child and go back and then in the future when the kid is 18 they want to send him to harvard, basically the paperwork is easier. and he tried to pivot today to that phenomenon with this back and forth in a pretty cringe-inducing way. take a look. >> my background, my life, the fact that i'm immersed in the immigrant experience. this is ludicrous for the clinton campaign and others to suggest ...