i understand why dick wrote the letter. i tried to do my part to find conference in immigration reform not only for the dream act kids and their parents. i tried to make sure that 20 years from now we don t have 11 million more illegal immigrants. fix it once and for all. the president did the country a service by going back to constitutional order by allowing six months for the congress to take care of these kids. the president was right on the law but he was also right to give us six months to figure out a solution to this. my challenge to the president, you ve taught very glowingly about these kids. help us. help us in the house. help us in the senate. i think you re a good man. get involved personally. work the phones. try to find a consensus here. here s what i think will happen. there s going to be elements of the republican party that believe that if you pass this dream act, you re rewarding
we don t have that luxury right now. as dick said, we have six months. i m with dick durbin. by the end of september, we need to take care of the dreamers and work on the other parts of the problem. i promised my republican colleagues, i won t stop with the dream act because that incentivizes future illegal immigration. i m committed to fixing this problem once and for all. let me say a word about the six months. that s to march 5. so we have plenty of time, right? not by senate standards we don t. who know what s next month s topic du jour will be. is it kim jong-un, is it going to be irma, harvey? what will it be? let s move and do it now. that s why we think it s important to make the dream act the law of the land now. congress has tried and failed more than ten times to pass protections for dreamers. why should dreamers today have any confidence this time around you ll get this done? some people look at the
general sessions and by the president tells us that the clock is ticking. we re now in a countdown towards deportation for 780,000 protected by daca today. for those young men and women across america, i can tell you, this is a moment of great concern, great fear and great anxiety about what is going to happen to their lives. they include teachers and engineers, medical students at loyola school of medicine. senator graham and i want to deliver the message is that we need to do our job here in the united states senate. we need to pass in this month of september a dream act, a permanent law in this country that says that these young people will have their chance to become part of america s future. the dream act is not a new idea introduced years ago, gone through the judiciary committee, part of our comprehensive immigration reform and the day
come out and make a statement. instead, it was his attorney general, jeff sessions. you know, you get the sense that the white house was a little bit cognizant of the fact that there was a backlash over this that s been brewing over the last 36 hours or so. yeah. the attorney general made it pretty plain in his statement today that, you know, he feels sympathy for the kids but he feels that this nation needs to continue the rule of law. when a president, as president obama did, simply up-ends congressional law and says here s what we re going to do, the attorney general didn t want that to fly. the question is, how many in congress that agree with him. it s a good question. there s a party that is going to be very much split on that point. you re starting to see that play out. you know, this is not something that will be resolved very quickly or very easily.
side many of you to make the dream act the law of the land. diagram like all of the country s movement to justice it will be difficult and take time. i know some wish here i could bypass congress and change the law myself. more hispanic students graduate from miami-dade college than any other higher education institution in the country. the president acknowledged that some of the students identified themselves publicly as illegal immigrants. and a new report for math and science is far too low and now a group of america s top ceo s are working to change that. former inteleceo and chairman of change the equation fred barrett joins us in the studio. my pleasure. numbers are sobering. we are told from the