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>> but it is an indictment of the system that we go from crisis to crisis. if you're talking about the economy, if you're talking about immigration. the congress doesn't deal with broad questions on this. it's not capable of it. it deals with crisis after crisis, and it's no way to govern on an issue that is this broad. >> by the way, this is a not in my backyard. we've had americans protesting immigrant groups being shifted around in this country for decades. bill clinton lost a race for governor arguably because he agreed -- he allowed jimmy carter to send the boat life cuba cubans, some of ...

Minorities. it should be both. and i think the message if they focus on job creation on, values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, they should be natural republican voters. >> let's say we get another data point to look at, dan. for example, in 2004 republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012, it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> yeah. they sure are. and probably the hispanic vote is the result of the immigration issue and the republicans. the ...

It should be both. the message, if they focus on job creation and values, those are issues unlike immigration that can bring that coalition together. a lot of these immigrant groups, small business, entrepreneurial should be natural republican voters. >> we've got another data point to look at. for example in 2004, republicans got more than 40% of the hispanic vote and the asian vote. by 2012 it had fallen into the upper 20s. those are killer numbers. >> they are. probably the hispanic vote is the result of the immigration issue and the republicans, the idea being they can't do immigration ref...

Innate, it's not biological. instead, cultural factors are at work. we decided to look inside those cultures, those groups, families to try to see if we could see what was happening and try to learn from it. >> what is the cultural factor at work here that makes it so that these immigrant groups, that certain immigrant groups, succeed? >> it's not just immigrant groups. the mormons are a non-immigrant group. amazing despite their enormous difference, what do mormons an nigerian-americans and chinese-americans have in common? they actually have three features in common that we're calling the tr...

Institute here serves 7,000 a year, but that's half as many as expected in a town this size. the institute is now a key component in the mosaic project, an ambitious plan to make this area much more inviting to immigrants. >> st. louis wants to be a welcoming community, and that's what we are going to do. >> reporter: it city is helping immigrant groups connect with loans, opportunities, education. this is not just a feel-good measure. a study found immigrants are more likely to open businesses, create jobs, raise wages and pursue higher degrees than the general population. as for jason jan, w...