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reporter: this whole immigration reform debate is quite emotional, quite heated. there were several disruptions earlier today of the house judiciary committee hearing. the protesters were eventually escorted out. meanwhile, california republican congressman dana rohrabacher has suggested that house speaker john boehner should be removed from his post if he were to bring up the senate immigration bill for a vote in the house. rohrabacher says it would be a betrayal. boehner says he doesn t see bringing forward a bill that doesn t have majority support of republicans. on the house side, i ve made clear to our members that we re going to have a discussion about this on july the 10th. we re going to have a special conference, and we re going to lay all of this out and listen to what the members have to say. i also suggested to our members today that any immigration reform bill that is going to go into law ought to have a majority of both parties support if we re really serious about m ....
Pressed about his own immigration reform bill. do you support your own bill? well, obviously i think it is an excellent starting point. 95%, 96% of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go. if the bill stays as it is regarding border security do you vote for it? listen, i really don t want to get involved in these hypotheticals and ultimatums. is it a surprise to see him this squishy on the issue, something he has been working so hard for to be that slippery to pin down on whether he would vote for it or not? i think he is putting his own ambitions for the white house first. he is very concerned about republican primaries if he does run for president and what folks will say about the current immigration reform debate. look, republicans still have a chance at the white house even if immigration reform fails. ....
M m marco hrubio, do you think the outrage from ted cruz helps him, having someone else who is sort of an extremist play the foil for this? in this theory that what ted cruz says is so out there that nobody wants to be seen in public with the guy it s sort of like the pressure valve is getting its release it is an interesting question how much ted cruz s rather hysterical opposition would actually hurt the passage of this bill as opposed to help it. all things being equal, i m sure marco rubio would rather not have it in his way. there s also rand paul who s been a weirdly instrumental player in terms of he is the self-proclaimed bridge between the moderates and more establish many republicans in the wings. he has not been as confrontational perhaps as ted cruz. no, but he has a lot of followers. a lot of people behind pip him. that s a parade with some troops hyped him. there are but if you look at the previous immigration reform ....
Today? was that something you were expecting or is that a turn of events. i think you are on to something, actually. i completely agree with you. i think this scandal is basically given the heritage foundation some coverage. they add really bad week. they need the scandal. they don t want congress senators or representatives to legislate. in fact, that s what they are doing. one of the incredible things happening on capitol hill is you ve got senators, republicans and democrats who are sitting down, rolling up their sleeves and engaging in common sense immigration reform debate. on the house side, i think they feel the momentum we feel in the immigrant community. we know that the american public is so much further ahead than our policy makers. on many issues. the fact this they reached agreement in principle, we don t have the details of that. but it is very significant. real quick. please. one thing i heard from senate sources is that the senate deal ....
Items that tested positive for ricin. when we know more, we ll pass along more. while talk about more of this heating up, signs of illegal immigration is about to pick up. a new poll showing one out of three mexicans would move to the u.s. right now. 20% of them say they would do it without authorization. that would be 22 million people. byron york talking about a knew new wave coming. these numbers seem to say things are looking good in the u.s.a. they re certainly looking better. there s been a debate around the immigration reform debate, and that is, would this big wave of immigration, illegal immigration we saw, will that happen again? we know that immigration from mexico fell dramatically in the great recession. there were as mean people leaving as were coming over. but what happens when the ....