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Dreamers or undocumented workers. it's not happening. it's fiction. >> these names are not fiction, sir. >> you do not need to worry. those that are abiding by the laws today, we will be in some point -- my hope is this year figuring out a compromise to give them legal work status in this country, so no one has to worry. they can go home and visit with their friends and family. >> congressman, do you feel better now knowing that no dreamers in this country are under threat in any way? >> yes. >> you feel better? >> yes. >> you believe that's true, no dreamers are being deported? >> i hope so. ...

I have a whole list of people, so on the one hand, i love it when republicans do what you should be doing which is honoring the great contributions of our immigrants but at the same time you have a republican president who is unleashing hell on this community and nobody is saying anything about it. >> president trump is focused on securing the borders, secondly, deporti ining the criminal elem >> there is no deportation force going door-to-door to deport dreamers or undocumented workers. it is not happening, it's fiction. >> these names are not fiction, sir. >> you do not need to worry, and i ...

Here legally and i just would not want to be afraid any more that so many kids who have fought to be here and have a future, to be deported. >> certainly, if you're here legally, you have nothing to worry about. even those that are undocumented. in my district we have a lot of dairy farms, many of those workers are undocumented who came here illegally. we need those workers to milk our cows and get them legal work status which is something i firmly believe. >> congressman, i agree with you on that. how can you say that a young dreamer should not be worried. i'm just going to read you names, th...

Family folks. we will deal with them on a compassionate basis. many of those are the dairy farm workers up in western new york i know well and i'm confident we will as a republican party and president trump as well will deal with that in a compassionate basis. >> let them stay here in the united states, find a pathway to a -- >> legal work status. >> for the kids and their parents? >> but not citizenship. >> eventually after a number of years, presumably, they would be eligible to apply for citizenship. >> no, that could be very clear. if they came here illegally, and they have legal work -- t...

Are ready to pass a short-term extension to give house and senate leaders a few more days. president obama will hold a town hall on immigration reform in nashville this morning. right now, 17 states are involved in a federal lawsuit seeking to block the president's executive order. that order which gives temporary work status to more than 5 million immigrants in the united states. the president has been busy. he made his first and last appearance on the colbert report. it was a hilarious exchange. jokingly calling the president emperor and asked the president why he burned the constitution...