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After arrests in new york and virginia, the investigation far from over. here is abc's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: 7-elevens across the country now under the microscope of federal investigators after the justice department uncovered what it calls, "a modern day plantation system" in more than a dozen stores. nine 7-eleven managers and owners on long island and eastern virginia accused of hiring and exploiting more than 50 illegal immigrants over the past 13 years. using stolen identities to sneak them into 7-eleven's corporate payroll system. identities were stolen from a cross section of peo...

Stupid politician. this senator is a doctor, an orthopedic surgeon. i defer to your expertise but even i looked at the numbers and today there was no way. no way. >> this healthcare law us hurting jobs and care and americans' pay checks. at an anchor around the economy. neil: what are they -- for reid to come out -- they're seeing something. what? >> well, they're seeing the complexity of the law and the difficulty implementing it. they're also seeing it's hurting the economy. we have 20 million americans who are out of work. unemployed or underemployed. millions more have given up looking for...

Are scrambling to meet changing demand. >> yeah. you're absolutely right, chris. lots of retailers in fact are really trying to adjust to this brave new world if you like. we've got consumers like us. we've all got smaller pay checks right? the 2% payroll tax hike. i think hurts a household with $65,000 in annual income about $1,300 this year. so that's real money. we've got gasoline prices which have jumped nearly 50 cents a gallon in the past month alone. so you've got companies like walmart stocking more of its shelves with cheaper products and smaller sized packages of everything from toil...

What is going on. >> neil: i hope you are right, i disagree with you. sandra, one could seize on this and whatever we are doing is working because things are beginning to chug along and deficits are coming down. we're only looking at $800 billion deficit? >> that is not the case. the media is touting that $3 billion surplus, we're on our way. it has nothing to do with the fact that there were spending less in the month of january. in fact it wasn't because they were growing jobs and economy was actually improving. they were taxing those that were earning more, bottom line, neil it doesn't addr...

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