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>> bret: unemployment rates dropped in 43 states in november. reflecting a modest improve in the the nation's job market. the labor department says only three states saw increases in unemployment. while four showed no change. nevada again had the highest state unemployment rate at 13%. the national guard force working at the mexican board, the u.s. mexican border will be cut from 12troops to 300 in the coming year. homeland security and defense department officials say the remaining force will focus on the aerial surveillance mission using helicopters and airplanes. the mayor of new haven, connecticut no, stranger to:00, raising eyebrows again considering a proposal to the state legislature that gives illegal immigrants a very american right. shannon bream has the story.
citizens are the same as african-americans or others. >> malloy says he is inclined to be supportive of protecting the right that come with the citizen. but he is not closing the door on the mayor proposal altogether. >> i am doing my best to honor ideas. nothing i read or heard thus far would convince me to support such a law. >> critics of the plan say the lawmakers who support the idea do so at their own risk. >> any legislature or governor that proposes and passed such a requirement would get angry response from voters at the next election. >> he sparked controversy when his administration refused to promote several white firefighters who outscored african-americans on promotion exams. the case was fought to the supreme court which ruled against the mayor.
>> as government, we have responseability to provide services and be responsive to people who live here. >> new hall of fame, connecticut, mayor john destefano it's fighting to see that 10 to 20,000 illegal immigrants get a right to vote in a local election. in a city that lost fewer than 16,000 vote votes in the last mayoral segment, the segment of the population could make a difference at the ballot box. he says the critics are wrong when he says he is violating the u.s. constitution. >> the same document for a long period of time precluded women and african-americans from voting. americans had a more expensive view of what it meant to belong to a community. >> that is a ridiculous comparison. you don't say that people who have broken the law to come to the united states and who have not complied to become