it is usually a crisis that precipitates change. religious profiling is not the answer. turning the corner, there seems to be some rumbling, especially among republicans that this should change the immigration conversation, even rand paul said we should delay the immigration debate until more details emerge. i don t know if he wants one of those machines that can bore into the hearts of 9-year-olds. but do you think this will and should change the immigration conversation? i think it has changed it to a degree. i don t think it will change the course and the dynamics behind the gang of 8 immigration bill. that was just last week. i think that s the beginning of the process. it is somewhat surprisingly, you hear even house speaker john boehner and paul ryan, two major voices in the house. the immigration bill is expected to have a tougher time come out and say in fact, the boston killings show that we do need immigration reform.
high. he cannot afford for the tone of this conversation, which is part of why you have it seen in the kind of rhetoric we ve previously seen from the republicans, he knows the tone of this immigration conversation, we talk about racial profiling, he s got to keep it mild because if we start to hear the kind of tom tancredo statements we ve heard previously from some on the far right demonizing illegal immigrants, deeming people, brown people essentially, he cannot afford that. particularly not in states like arizona, new mexico, colorado, nevada where the expectation, you know, you ve got president obama leads by huge margins in the latino population, so no. politically speaking, he has got to be very careful and stick to his policy of no comment on this issue. okay, anna marie, we ve had the president s position, mitt romney s. how about governor jan brewer? she came out and declared this an absolute win saying arizona