rarely gets talked about was the moving down of that disparity. 18 to 1 now. exactly. but think about it, even 18 to 1, 18 grams of, you know, powder cocaine is going to get you the same time in jail as one gram of crack cocaine. we know that over 90% of people who are convicted of powder cocaine are white. we know that over 90% of people who are convicted of crack cocaine are nonwhite. so that disparate impact is huge. and it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, about second-generation discrimination, because the thing that makes it look so innocuous is white and black or the name of any race is not on the face of the guidelines. it flies under the radar of the courts. in fact, if you look at the top offenses for which people are imprisoned in this country, drugs as a whole category, at 50%. immigration just over 10%. you have 60% of people being sentenced around drugs and immigration offenses. look how much higher those are
the president will have to present a plan that takes amnesty off the table and focuses, instead, on making a real commitment to border and internal security if the president does these two things, he will find strong bipartisanship support. if he doesn t, he won t. republicans hope to convince independents that immigration reform is distracting the president from the economy. the white house counters by saying immigration reform is an economic issue. shepard? shepard: wendell goler, el paso, texas. texas lawmakers moved forward with a proposal to force police to give immigration offenses the same priority as other crimes. and bans cities or police departments from telling officers not to enforce immigration laws. the measure now heads for the state senate. and a federal judge in utah today blocked enforcement of that state s new immigration law just hours after it took effect. the judge cited its similarity to a controversial arizona law that the courts have also
about the aliens here as opposed to the aliens in the united states. i don t agree with what karen said. the best way is to have a universal tamper-proof i.d. card. social security cards are tampered big broth,er, isn t it? every other country has it. is there any form of enforcement people favor? what it needs what needs to be the case is an employer has an applicant come before them and the employer takes secure i.d., puts it into a reader and says you can have a job or not. we haven t done that. failing that, i understand why people in arizona say let s do what we can do. do you go along, david, with going after the employers who hire undocumented workers? i think that s absolutely essential. under the clean water act, if you violate that you face a fine up to $25,000 per offense per day. immigration offenses carry fin s s of a few hundred tldollars. is president obama focused on this the way he should be after
here s what you can do. empower police to say somebody makes an illegal left turn, in addition to showing their driver s license, police can then ask them for their papers. we should a mechanism for removing people that don t have proper proof that they re entitled to be in the country. the workplace, it should be a really serious offense. the violation of the clean water act carries $25,000 per day for offense. immigration offenses charge nothing like that. if the employers knew it didn t pay, they wouldn t hire the illegals. then those who are here would go home. you don t authorization the police. does this motivate president obama to do something here. we ve heard from the governor before. she says, i asked the obama administration to support 250 national guard, put them on the border. she says they dropped the ball. she s taking it into her own hands. i think she s in a tough primary challenge and doing what she can to shore up her base. you think it s political? absolutel
jenna: a nationwide manhunt for a man accused of sending an antigovernment manifesto to president trump and stealing more than a dozen firearms. by someone close to him fears he was a violent showdown with police. and the u.s. facing a deadly opioid epidemic. how did we get here and how do we stop it? it s all happening now. jenna: we begin with this our expecting some breaking news and awaiting attorney general jeff sessions arrival in arizona se towards our border with mexico and meets with law enforcement officers as well. welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. sessions is expected in the area south of tucson that was once one of the biggest 8 busiest places on the border for illegal crossings and drug smuggling. it comes as sessions plans to ask federal prosecutors to take a harder line on immigration offenses. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge