think many immigration reform advocates and many immigration attorneys would say that it has been ruled out somewhat sloppily, it has been inconsistently applied at airports around the country. that brings into issue due process concerns and equal protection questions because we have people being treated one way at jfk and people being treated a different way in washington, d.c. or dallas. so we heard from a number of representatives from the white house who said that these seven nations were selected because it was codified by the administration and congress because there was terrorist camp activity in those states and thereby this executive order singling out these states is a continuation if not an elaboration on something that was already set in the previous administration. is that fair? sound enough?
laureate said it best. the moment you own it you never let it go it s more like hi my name is what? my name is who? my name is, slim chances. and that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. i m joined by jonathan allen, the chief political correspondent for vox. good morning jonathan. good morning. what a range for candidates. tony orlando and eminem. i know. but we do have to talk about hillary clinton because she came out swinging bringing immigration reform to the forefront of her campaign. what do you think? is this a risky move on her part? i think she understands that to motivate latino voters and immigration reform advocates, she s got to do something that is bolder and stronger than what president obama did. and i think right now, what she s trying to do is make sure the democratic base is going to
least a lost soul as well as a bad person and we we just don t have a way of treating them or helping them. and now it s over for him as well. it is over for him and it s just, you know it s a demonstration of for all that was lost there s something else at play also. the way we see the mentally ill and the way we see them under law are two very different things and the price that s been paid by the families in this case are the victims. there will never be any good solution to come out of this. thank you for helping us understand. alisyn. on to politics, republicans and democrats at a legislative impasse over the funding for the department of homeland security. mitch mcconnell proposing a two-vote solution to avert the shutdown. cnn s jim acosta is live at the white house with more. president obama will be ramping up pressure on congress to get this done. he meets with immigration reform
well, hey, that s not bad, actually. oh, no, sorry. that s not a make them listen anti-immigrant protest, that s the gathering in the former president of the supermarket chain outside of boston. this is what a supermarket protest looks like. this is what the make them listen/keep the immigrant kids out protest looked like on saturday. very small. sad trombone, music for when you do not win on the price is right. do we still have it? despite the grossly underwelming energy of the make them listen protest effort, there did emerge a sort of interesting pattern out there in the more than 300 planned protest sites around the country on friday and saturday. at many of the locations, counterprotests broke out. these were not national days of action for immigration reform advocates. but in lots of locations where they plan to have big anti-immigrant rallies, not many anti-immigrant folks showed up.
the region today, is in central america today. secretary johnson traveled to the border five times in the last month. this hour, cnn will cover the border crisis like no other network, from the white house to texas. we have congressmen from both sides of the aisle, representative henry cuellar from texas, senator ron johnson from wisconsin. we begin with jim acosta, senior white correspond pent. jim, the latest from where you are? reporter: that s right, brianna. the president won t be going to the texas border today. he has a fund-raiser in denver and speech on the economy in colorado before he heads to texas for a fund-raiser but he does have what should be a tense meeting with texas governor rick perry in dallas after a roundtable with local immigration reform advocates in that city, and even though that meeting will be tense, there s another tense showdown grew you brooing here in washington over the president s border plan. with the ink barely dry on the president s nearly $4