advocated for tougher border security and want stronger enforcement provisions and a different path for illegal immigrants here in the u.s. harris? elizabeth, it started to get chippy, i understand the former democratic speaker offered some advice to the current speaker, john boehner. yeah. we heard from now minority house leader nancy pelosi. she says she s optimistic there will be comprehensive immigration reform by the year end and praises the effort of senate lawmakers. she went on to say it is a high priority for voters, even linking it to election success. listen. we wouldn t even be where we are now, had it not been that 70% of hispanics voted for president obama, voted democratic in the last election. that caused an epiphany in the senate, that s for sure. now senator schumer, a member of the bipartisan senate group that wrote the immigration measure also sounding very
reporter: tennessee senator co-authored it. i don t know how anybody believes the border needs to be more secure, this is an outstanding achievement. this bill is not designed to fix the problem. if this bill got passed into law, in 10, 20 years, we would be back here, instead of 11 million here illegally, we would have 20 or 30 million. reporter: the tea party patriots began efforts to recruit tea party primary candidates to run against republican incumbents that support that senate immigration bill. if it passes the senate, next challenge is the house where different reforms are drafted with tougher border security and enforcement provisions. nobody knows if differences between the two plans can ever be resolved. there s progress this week, but still many, many battles ahead. thank you. a handful of encouraging economic reports, home prices up 12% in april from a year earlier. new home sales rose in may by
from immigration proponents in the senate. senator bob corker s office clearly doing some rapid response fired back. to be clear, the tough border security and interior enforcement provisions that senator hoeven and i offered on friday make up 119 pages added to the 1,100 pages that have been public since may. president obama will sell the economic benefits of immigration reform. where he s expected to highlight the new congressional budget office numbers that estimate the bill will reduce the deficit by about $200 billion over the next ten years and about $700 billion over the following decade. the chamber of commerce has a new ad out featuring rubio, ryan, and even rand paul talking up immigration reform but warning signs for a bill were on display over the weekend.
enforcement provisions are inadequate, although he has done countless interviews touting that the bill contains the toughest enforcement measures in the history of the united states which is what his website says. at the same time rubio declares the bill 95, 96% perfect. we re seeing this, mark halperin, you cover iowa an awful lot, we re seeing iowa activists come out and tell him not to bother to come. the most powerful radio voice saying don t even bother coming here. the national review has a regular rubio s foley column. erick erickson red state being openly critical and seems like marco is responding by sort of bouncing back and forth. what s he doing? what s his strategy? he s thrown himself into this. done lots of media interviews on the right. he believes this the basic premise of the senate bill is
is this a sign of progress on the right? i guess it depends on where you start from the progress. if it s from 2010, then, yes, absolutely, that s progress. but from ten years ago, 20 years ago, no, it s not quite progress. that s not a compromise. they don t seem to understand, or else they re being cute about, what we mean here by comprehensive immigration reform. they ll say we want legalization for these 12 million people and in exchange for that, you get some enforcement provisions, the race-based future flow system, whatever else you want and whatever else the business community wants. they want cheaper engineers to be able to get in from india and south asia to keep, you know, costs down here in the united states.