in the public at large and among hispanics. it is clearly political. it seems clearly like an election year move to get an important voting bloc on his side. romney has not laid out his own policy. he continues to avoid saying what he would do with or for the illegal immigrants currently in the country, especially the so-called dream kids, those affected by the dream act or by the president s executive order. so they have chosen to attack the president for making a political move. the question is, given this political move is nonetheless popular, will that argument register at all or will people say, i don t care if this is political, i still like it. david, as we shift to the fast and furious investigation, republicans are criticizing the president for exercising executive privilege. what kind of political calculation went into the white house s decision to do that and did they see any advantage in
not no, not an executive order. you can t do that. the truth is that this is a comp my indicated issue but there are specific areas where the president can say, we re going to have a consistent policy throughout the united states for, let s say, the dream kids, spouses of military husbands or wives. we can do that. the president can do that. i think he just needs to look again at what is the priority that we re setting to identify, apprehend, and deport dangerous criminals that are here illegal as opposed to, let s say, a child that was brought over here 16 years ago by a parent or spouse of someone who is serving in the military and protecting the very freedoms that we discuss day and day out here at eshe can t find anyone who seriously thinks it has excellent chance of passage. it s unlikely, in fact, most people think, to have
jobs or h1bs out there, you re not just going to go dream kids. i m not saying if that s all you had out there, that that s what s going to happen. the thing is for politicians and elected officials to resist doing that which is expedient or convenient. to resist doing heavy lifting. do you want senate democrats to bring up immigration legislation, to force a vote and create a political moment, or do you want more behind the scenes negotiations before basically it gets politicized and thrown into the campaign in 2012? well, you bring up a good point. you know, if you want to score political points, you can do all sorts of things, but there s a lot of work in the background going ons we speak. and i do believe that you have to lay that groundwork in order to enhance the chances of doing something that s truly meaningful. you don t want the senate democrats to throw something out there too throw something out there too quickly before you give it a realistic shot behind the scenes?
compromises? i would be willing to sit down and talk to him. but where we go the next stage. the american people have already seen an amnesty before and a promise of enforcement. but that s not what we re talking about. i am ready, john, to sit down with my friend from san diego and sit down and tell him you can have your e-verify for everyone. how do we do we get you at the table so that we can move forward? i think not. i think the problem here is they want enforcement. and john, we give them plenty. i listed six different enforcement measures that we take, and they will not sit down at the table, even for dream kids, young men and women who are right here at this country at a young age. we can t get them to do that and we re deporting 400,000 people a year. the american people have heard these the american people have heard these promises before. that if you allow us to do this for this population, we promise to get tough on the real problem, the employers. we promise we l
trump and republicans not fully saying that the infrastructure spending bill would be about privatizing all of these efforts. there has to be some give and take. that s what we didn t see in 2017. so i hope that s how we ring in 2018. but we all know that really as soon as the clock strikes midnight, anything that happens in the congress next year is about what the election outcome is in favor of or not in favor of from any issue, whether it s infrastructure or the dream act. i think for democrats, it would be fantastic if we could work with republicans to take care of these dream kids that hold so much promise. i know a lot of democrats and i want it to be a clean dream act, probably won t be. that probably won t be the case. if we could get infrastructure and dream act passed in this