enforcement people. we ve got to figure out a way to 230k cuss on the folks who are here, the most serious threat than just taking anybody who shows up at the border or whoever is standing near us, let s focus on the people who are most dangerous. start with the serious and violent crimes, people who are a threat to national security, people who have repeatedly crossed the border, let s focus our priorities there, and then they re basically saying this is a matter of prosecutorial discretion. that s what they say is the legal authority. that 24e79 to focus their limited enforcement resources on the most serious offenders. the republicans are say, yes, but by saying you problem you won t that s where they think the president would have clearly the administration says that s not necessary. tom weber from time, marco rubio sent out a statement there s a brought support for
it would relax the deportation rules for people under the age of 30 who were brought to this country under the age of 16. so this goes back to the issue of people who come in illegally with their parents under sort of not on their own volition, and grow up in this country and want to work. they will be able to get work permits. it s raising a number of issues, number one, why the president decided not to go through congress to get this passed, that is one of the big issues, we just spoke to congressman allen west about that, he s none too happy about it. the other big issue is whether it s specifically designed to court latino voters during this election year. here is janet napolitano on this moments ago, listen. i believe that additional measures are needed to insure that our enforcement resources are not extended on low priority cases but are instead appropriately focused on people who meet our enforcement priorities.
front of the line in terms of allowing them to stay, no special favors for citizenship, but let s not devote our enforcement resources to trying to kick these people out of the country. stewart verdery, great to see you. coming up next, tropical storm beryl, we ll check back on that. it s churning over southern florida and northern georgia this morning. tell you just how much rain to expect. and president obama continuing to fire at mitt romney over bain capital. is it all too negative and coming too soon? we ll explore that. and then on this memorial day, helping vets find homes and secure safe home loans when they return from combat. that many and much more. keep it right here on msnbc. [ woman ] for the london olympic games, our town had a brilliant idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen.
september 13th to third place now, and just 13.7% on friday. we are doing everything we can administratively, but the fact of the matter is there are laws in the books that i have to enforce. the president has also suffered at the polls because of imimmigration, but ey ironicall, his problem is the reverse of perry s, that he s been too tough, deporting more illegals in the first two years than george w. bush did in eight, alarmed by the sharp drop in latino support that followed. in august his administration announced what conservatives immediately branded a back door amnesty. what we can do is to prioritize enforcement since there are limited enforcement resources. do you feel a sense of concern over the apparent erosion of support for the president and the administration among latinos? this is interior secretary
september 13th to third place now, and just 13.7% on friday. we are doing everything we can administratively, but the fact of the matter is there are laws in the books that i have to enforce. the president has also suffered at the polls because of imimmigration, but ey ironicall, his problem is the reverse of perry s, that he s been too tough, deporting more illegals in the first two years than george w. bush did in eight, alarmed by the sharp drop in latino support that followed. in august his administration announced what conservatives immediately branded a back door amnesty. what we can do is to prioritize enforcement since there are limited enforcement resources. do you feel a sense of concern over the apparent erosion of support for the president and the administration among latinos? this is interior secretary ken salazar.