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That's historic. why is that? mitt romney was very strong on protecting american jobs from immigrants both legal and illegal. i would also say that the last time republicans won a statewide election in california, when was that? with proposition 187. that was the proposition that said illegal aliens cannot get welfare and so on. do i think that's a winning issue. one other point on bret hume's point none of these proposals are amnesty because amnesty must be unconditional that's not true. ronald reagan's amnesty in 1986 was not unconditional, very much like the amnesty being talked about today...

Of mitch mcconnell. he voted against the marco rubio amnesty bill. i laid out principles for when it's worth challenging a republican incumbent and in 2010 it wasn't republican incumbents it was democrats. that was a race against obamacare. i think it's always worth challenging a republican incumbent if he's for amnesty and if we have a good candidate who can win the district. there were two things i wanted to say, bret baier half an hour ago was responding to my point that it really doesn't matter that there were only 3,000 people voting in this primary. polls show the same thing. amnesty is ...

The republican party and eric cantor was among them who were in favor of amnesty. that is a word you hear flung aword by opponents. amnesty has a meaning. it means pardon. basically means an unconditional pardon. there's not a single immigration reform measure that's been advanced by anybody, certainly not any republicans that involves an unconditional pardon for anybody. now, there are rigorous steps, some bills more rigorous than others that would have to be gone through by these immigrants to achieve a path to citizenship and so forth. but anything that -- amnesty is an epithet. it's very e...

With a house majority leader poised to sit down and work with ryan and boehner and democrats on the issue of immigration reform, bret doesn't like the word amnesty it's shorthand for basically keeping people in the country who are here illegally. the technical definition is irrelevant opinion that's where we are. it's extremely significant. it doesn't mean the issue is over. but i do believe if republicans continue to go down this road where people who have violated our laws and are living here are going to continue to get benefits that regular working class people are not getting, i think tha...

Case. but that is where we are on this issue. it's a very emotional, explosive issue and the people who feel the way they feel about it are powerful. this is not something the country is unanimous. the country favors immigration reform broadly speaking. nobody is for amnesty and nobody says they are. >> of course, i think that term is not being used in the way it's phrased in the dictionary by people like laura. but i'll let her respond in a minute. however, i want to get this on camera first. we just got erjake cantor's remarks. we'll let the viewers decide for themselves. the now defeated ho...