right that they face short term challenges. in the long term, many of them will change. they have to think about both things at the same time. let me just say, annie, especially since you focus on the economy. there is the economic piece and not just business interests and high skill laborers. don freedman has an interesting analysis. he makes the point, i think a lot of folks don t know this, 40 cents of every one dollar of mexican exports are materials made in the u.s.a. compared to 4% from china. we can keep building fences between the u.s. and mexico, but actually a much more substantive economically profitable future for the u.s. doesn t involve having a 40 foot metal fence but figuring out a symbiotic relationship with the mexican government and mexican people. right. this is hard. immigration reform is going to
even further southwest, way down here in old mexico. los angeles, california, which of course used to be part of mexico until we took it by force, and then started building fences to keep mexicans out of old mexico. i m here today because the time has come. right now the president is in the air. for common sense. he is expected to lay out his own vision. outline his immigration priorities. immigration reform. the immigration. immigration. immigration reform. our immigration system is broken. we need congress to act. the issue of immigration is not a simple one. look, senator, rubio is for it. he is now the emissary. the face of the national tea party. i think we ll do a tremendous service to our country. they may get a deal on immigration. it wouldn t be a quick process, but will be a fair process. the so-called embrace of immigration reform, but not so fast.
they don t want to go backwards to a day when young people who as children were brought to the united states and were raised with our kids and went to school with our kids. are our kids, are americans through and through, in everything except the papers that somehow they should be sent away instead of contributing to the united states of america. ana marie, it strikes me that even if you leave policy aside, what you see there is president obama is very comfortable talking about this, and it s yet another instance where the frequently awkward mitt romney is even more awkward, when he just can t find his way to a clear position on this. it s true. and immigration at its heart is actually a human issue. it s a human rights issue. and it s something that i think we forget when we re talking about building fences and deportation. but, actually, one of the things that s interesting about the supreme court decision is they kind of say in their decision that this is a humanitarian concer
obama talking today about the difference between mitt romney and him on this issue. they don t want to go backwards to a day when young people who as children were brought to the united states and were raised with our kids and went to school with our kids. are our kids, are americans through and through, in everything except the papers that somehow they should be sent away instead of contributing to the united states of america. ana marie, it strikes me that even if you leave policy aside, what you see there is president obama is very comfortable talking about this, and it s yet another instance where the frequently awkward mitt romney is even more awkward, when he just can t find his way to a clear position on this. it s true. and immigration at its heart is actually a human issue. it s a human rights issue. and it s something that i think we forget when we re talking about building fences and deportation. but, actually, one of the things that s interesting about the supreme cou
even those who are socially conservative and are having an issue with him and are kind of on the fence, will probably go with his job making promise. he was hostile towards choice, but he never said anything about overturning roe v. wade. let s talk about a couple of guys who are not official candidates. a lot of people are saying that texas governor rick perry is going to get so the race, but the headline is, latino leaders give perry a lukewarm response. could the latino vote be a problem for him? it s absolutely going to be a problem in his immigration sense, they are out there and on on t top of that, you have a latino candidate from texas. he is talking about building fences and it goes beyond