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Carolina economy which relies on this immigrant workforce. ann, thoughts on that. >> well, i mean, i think clearly, there's a tension here that this white house proposal for legislation doesn't address, which is, you know, what is both legal and illegal, and it is largely to fill jobs that go unfilled or less than fully filled otherwise. it's interesting that steven miller was premising the whole idea of this legislative proposal on the idea that it would serve under-employed and low education, low wage american workers as there was a question in the briefing on this, and there is a fundamenta...

Pennsylvania is an american company that needs workers, but has had trouble filling the jobs because american workers are failing drug tests. >> 20% of people are failing. >> that's pretty high. >> we're seeing positive from marijuana and heroin. >> employees testing positive for drugs has increased steadily over the past few years, reaching the highest level in a decade. >> how many people here are refugees? >> almost everybody that you're seeing here. >> at sterling, refugees have become a hiring solution to the drug problem. >> the immigrant workforce that's here has filled a void that we h...

Isn't stepping in. i've been surprised at the candor out of the washington, d.c. that political leaders are saying this is too hot of an issue. you have a united states senator from new jersey who doesn't have the ability to bring the issue forward from a policy position calling for a boycott of arizona. arizona has become a political football. boycotts are only going to hurt hispanic families in arizona. 20% is an immigrant workforce. most of the entry points on a workforce in arizona for a hispanic is through service industry like hospitality industry. any convention, visitation or tourism b...

Isn't stepping in. i've been surprised at the candor out of the washington, d.c. that political leaders are saying this is too hot of an issue. you have a united states senator from new jersey who doesn't have the ability to bring the issue forward from a policy position calling for a boycott of arizona. arizona has become a political football. boycotts are only going to hurt hispanic families in arizona. 20% is an immigrant workforce. most of the entry points on a workforce in arizona for a hispanic is through service industry like hospitality industry. any convention, visitation or tourism b...

With the mexico and they seem to work in san diego. >> fences work and go ahead with that but combine it with other reforms. we need workers and have worker programs. we did it in the past. we need high-tech people. expand the visas and make sure that people obeying rules get through the system quickly instead of dragging on as the bureaucracy does today. with mexico, why isn't the country growing like india, china and others are growing? give advice to them so people have less incentive to cross the border. put it all together. >> david: not just the fence but the fence and the other things t...