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Granted. in the past also the latino population was a lot more engaged at community grass roots and did not see how that engagement really translated into the -- the national politics. but now campaigns are seeing things certainly from the get go the bernie sanders campaign has seen that in a different way. human rights are latino rights and latino rights are human rights. and we have a president right now that demonized the latino population, demonized the immigrant population. and it's a lot different than that. we are engaging people by ensuring that the conversations that we are having we ...

Before you become citizens. are they on track or as critics say, they are wrong. >> probably this would create a more merit-based immigration system which is what the president has repeatedly said he's looking for. but when you look at the details, what this could end up doing is favoring migrants from more wealthy and typically more white countries over those from sort of nonwhite minority countries. a number of studies have been done that have found that previous drafts of this will to be released would disproportionately affect migrants from latin american countries, asian countries, eric: ...

The lowest as you point out, europe, canada and asia.and the main major law that really changes the face of immigration in 1965 was the immigration and nationality act. and here's what they said about that. since 1965 more than half latin american and one quarter asian, larger share of today's immigrant population. 11.6 million is from mexico. together with india and the philippines, china, vietnam, el salvador, cuba, south korea, dominican republic and guatemala, these countries account for nearly 60 percent of the current immigrant population. the ministration says we want merit-based. as yo...

Those in your community, those across the country, are affected by the messaging and the signaling that happens as a result of a raid like this, as you know, joaquin castro said, this is more about intimidation and striking fear into a broader community? >> absolutely. absolutely. while these raids -- i guess the closest of which may have been a few miles north of jackson, this community is still gripped by it. and even had that not been the case, i think it is our responsibility as citizens to stand up against this atrocity. and so, many people are unfamiliar with the circumstances which lead...

How many people go out and burn a cross? how many people go out and wave a gun at somebody at a gas station? we need to look at these civil disturbances and encouragement of domestic terror rather than just a political rally. that's essentially what they manifest into. >> what jason is talking about i specifically just came back from hearing about. i was just in dayton, ohio, since 2000 the city's immigrant population doubled. just last week somebody was walking in dayton where immigrants had been welcomed for years now and somebody screamed, send her back. go back to your country to somebody ...