with all of the latest developments. we will stay right on top of it here in america s newsroom . bill: all right. now to the illegal immigration debate, heating up yet again. remember how arizona s law sparked widespread protests? well now 15 states now said to be considering measures similar to arizona. you can see them here on the screen in yellow. my next guest wants to go even further, he s pushing for a national version of the arizona law, and then some. california congressman ed royce, member of the immigration reform caucus, welcome to america s newsroom , sir, good morning to you. good morning, bill, how you doing? bill: fine, thank you. why do you think this is necessary for the whole country to adopt what arizona has done? i was just down on the border, texas, new mexico, arizona, we had town hall meetings there are ranchers, we talked to border patrol agents. what s happening is that the border area is being lost in terms of effective control by our own border control
nevada democrat, pushing an amnesty proposal and defense funding bill, the dreamac deal act that would help people illegally here become citizens if they attend college or join the military. what about that idea? republican congressman brian bribrant is chairman of the immigration reform caucus and welcome back to america s newsroom . what s wrong with that idea? bill, it s absolutely absurd. you know, i count on harry reid as a family friend but i can t believe that he s even considering tagging an amnesty bill on to a military funding bill, while our men and women are fighting and dying in afghanistan, and after what just happened, where 72 illegals were slaughtered in mexico, and he would tie this in and inties people to come here illegally after all we ve seen in the last months. bill: but the essence of his idea, these aren t dead beats, they would be contributing to american
firefighters have been taken to 6-8 firefighters have been taken to a local hospital there in detroit. it looks as though they have some sort of control of this blaze. details are sketchy. we re going to get more reports from our wjbk fox affiliate there momentarily, and as we get developing details, we will bring them to you right here on america s newsroom . bill: they have it surrounded, don t they? hope there was nobody inside when that building went down. the immigration debate heating up after a bombshell report, 8 percent of babies born in the u.s. in 2008 were born to illegals, that study suspect the one 14th amendment that gives automatic citizenship back in the spotlight, a rasmussen poll , 58 percent think children born to illegals should not automatically given citizenship. what did that? former chairman of the republican immigration reform caucus, welcome back to our program, you lay a
this problem because we haven t enforced the laws that we ve got on the books. changing the constitution would be the wrong thing to do. joining me now is republican congressman brian bilbray of california. he s the chairman of the immigration reform caucus. he takes it a step further. he wants the 14th amendment repealed now. got to give you a chance to respond to this one, congressman. absolutely. why do it now? what does that accomplish? absolutely not. we should not repeal the 14th amendment. we should apply the law ekely. ed, you may not know it, but we do not allow the children of diplomats to get automatic citizenship. the fact is the supreme court has ruled on this, that people that are visiting the united states do not warrant subject to the jurisdiction which is the 14th amendment conditions. it doesn t say everyone born in the u.s. is a u.s. citizen. it says those that are born here and subject to the jurisdiction which means that at the time of their birth their paren
interior. the big ruse is telling people we can stop illegal immigration by doing everything at the border. you re right. we ve been covering for the employers causing the problem. here s someplace democrats and republican who s want our border secure reasonable doubt going to be brave enough to say the days of employers exploiting illegal labor. it s the cheap labor. absolutely. the business community is addicted to the cheap labor and that s why we haven t address addressed this in this country p both parties are at fault. i admit that. both sides should be brave enough to say let s go to the real source, illegal employers exploiting. that s one place that this president obama and those of us in the immigration reform caucus should be able to work on. how do you think, congressman bilbray, the governor and the state of arizona should respond to this ruling? i think they should appeal it and say look, we may not need to implement this law if you guys at the federal level c