laboring organizing network, he is an undocumented father of four who has lived in the united states for more than 25 years. his only criminal record is for misdemeanor driving offences including a dui. the organization is leading a petition to prevent his deportation. joining me now is antonio vargas, founder of define american. he attended trump s joint address to congress as a guest of nancy pelosi. i want to get your impressions in the room when you heard donald trump, whose policies caused that 12-year-old to be crying in that car, said that he wanted to create something called v.o.i.c.e., the victims of immigrant crime, and an e. what did you feel when you heard that? victims of immigration crime
she says she came because she was threatened by the gaj gangs, they were threatening to kill her and she s pregnant and they were scared for their lives so they came. reporter: as she came from el salvador, she was separated from her husband shortly after that interview so they could be transported to immigrations and customs. they are now being processed. every single immigrant we talked to yesterday about donald trump talked to us about the wall. they said they did not believe the wall was going to be built. if it was built, they would continue to try to come into this country because they were fleeing their countries fearing for their lives. back to you. gadi , thank you. joining me is jose antonio vargas as co-founder and ceo of define american and emerging
winning. i completely agree with that. some of the things that trump does that you don t see any other candidate for office at any level do, they ask him about the polls. every politician in america tells you, i don t read the polls. the only poll that counts is election day. ask them about their opponents. i respect my opponent. my opponent is a fine american. trump speaks like the average american would speak about the polls and about his opponent. that does connect with people in a way that we ve never seen with a politician. right. the only folks that aren t laughing or folks in the latino community. because he uses them as a cheap scapegoat. the only way for him to get to the white house is through the latino vote. we re seeing increasingly our allies saying this is enough. it was funny until people started getting hurt. two weeks ago, steve, there was a homeless latino man that was 58 years old beaten nearly to death by two trump supporters citing him as the reason why they w
several central american nations at the white house next week. he ll talk about stemming the tide of illegal immigrant children with the presidents of el salvador, honduras and guatemala. we re waiting for congress to act on the president s $3.7 billion emergency funding request. there are two weeks left in the session and some lawmakers want substantial policy strings attached. let s bring in brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush, and a professor of public policy, politics and international affairs at georgetown university, and jehmu green, former president of the women s media center, fox news contributor and co-founder of define american, a campaign to elevate the immigration conversation. thank you for joining us. brad, you say president obama is neglecting to include a key country in these meetings, mexico. absolutely. but for mexico letting these child migrants come across their border, they would have never gotten to our border and had our border been secure
he has always, from his first days in the house back in the 1970s, refused to buckle to the forces of selfishness and power. ed markey is running for the senate seat. he enjoys the support of mrs. kennedy. he supports women s rights to a tee and will take make a great colleague. i m enormously proud to call him a friend. i am thrilled that he now leads the democratic race for the senate nomination. i m glad for the country that we have such a fine american ready to take up the task of leadership. he is clean, he is strong and he has the vision to make a powerful difference for the progressives, and not just of massachusetts, but with the country. the state will have among the sharpest delegations in the entire senate. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. politics nation with al sharpton starts right now.