i m the son of a refugee who came from one of those broken places that the president would, in a modern day context r, woul have called a shithole. and this country opened arms to him. this is why i love our country so much. and the strength of our country is we are a beacon all over the world who aspire and want to make something of their lives. and they have come and generations of immigrants. because remember back then there was big resistance to the polls and italians and jews from eastern europe and so on. but it s been imgrants who have built this country. and the president i know he doesn t read, but he should read some history or at least get on books on tape and understand what the immigrant experience has meant to this country. well, he likes to read documents, david axelrod, that s what i m hearing.
be there. you have a wonderful thanksgiving. thanks for joining us. reporter: you, too. welsh president trump set to met with congressional leaders next week after the dinner today. but topping the agenda is going to be avoiding a government shutdown. lawmakers are up against a december 8th deadline to pass a spending bill. democrats insisting it could include a fix to the daca program for illegal imgrants brought here as children, something that would complicate things with republicans. let s bring in beckett adams. good to have you here. thanks for having me. it is all coming down to daca, if you will. we should mention the deadline is two weeks from tomorrow. this is a short window of time we re talking about. nancy pelosi and chuck shumer walked out of the white house in september, thought they had something in agreement with the president on daca. didn t turn out to be so. is this going to affect the budget deadline? welsh one thing that s interesting to look at here i
means new people are being approved because young imgrants have said we are going to stay and so we are talking to people at the state and local level and anyone who cares about america and the dignity and justice of every single human being stand up with usond tuesday, president trump may or may not announce it, before then, we don t know. stand with us. we at the national immigration law center are ready to sue and we are also calling on congress. jose, we ll be back. and thank you very much. thank you both for being here. and still ahead, some final thoughts on donald trump s decision and the 800,000 lives, more than that when you count families hanging in the balance. join the conversation at american dreamers and hashtag am joy and share your story at defineamerican.com. my name is [ inaudible ] and i work for amazon as an
but the answer i have for them is don t it did. it had to do with race based on what he was doing in ignoring the judge s order, had to do with race. not in the criminal case, but there was a separate order in 2013 that said the sheriff s office was using race as a factor. they had been trained to do by the federal government, by the way, part of the manual to use race as a factor, so, you know, people like that who feel like they are wrongfully detained, law enforcement is in a tough position. understand that. at the end of the day, you can blame law enforcement, you know, blame the large number of illegal imgrants in the country, or the law. i just felt it was fair for the law enforcement. jack, thank you for your time. thank you, appreciate it. that s the cnn news room, and we ll go bag to texas for tropical storm harvey, but it s back to school time, and in classes around the country, students learn about the people
we re going to have to deal with the education gap in america and have to bring jobs to the hood. so what i hope is that this president will engage in proactive problem solving at a very, very grassroots level. that s why many of the folks on the counsel are still there. let me bring dr. west in. no, no, i would say to my dear brother is certainly we want a variety of voices and different contexts, but when you get in that room, you got to tell the truth. you got to bear witness. you got to keep in mind frederick douglass, what s going on. love is not a plague thing. love requires unbelievable vulnerability willing to take a risk, open yourself, emptying yourself to be of service to the most vulnerable. the underdogs, those who have been trashed, margin alized from imgrants, elderlies, transfolks,