we ll keep an eye on that. the obama justice department is taking aim at south carolina s tough new immigration law which requires police to check on a suspect s immigration status. i m joined by nbc news chief justice correspondent pete williams. pete, governor nicky hailey who is the daughter of immigrants, is named as the defendant in this? right. this is the third time the obama administration has sued a state. the first two were arizona and alabama. similar pattern there. sued the state and the governor as well. and in each case, the obama administration is saying the states cannot have their own immigration laws that are at odds with the federal law and a balance of federal policies. the justice department says one thing that south carolina has plainly said it wants to do is have a law that is so tough that it pushes illegal immigrants into other states and the federal government says that s not the way to have an immigration policy is to shove the problem from state to state
MSNBCW Jansing And Co November 1, 2011
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that economy has stalled. we have still a very negative environment. reporter: analysts at morgan stanley say both the united states and europe are dangerously close to a recession. everyone s feeling it. you can t put your head in the sand and think that we re immune to a recession. reporter: the losses on wall street wiped out nearly all of the gains over the past five trading days. some investors who bought stocks recently turned right back around and sold. the impulse to sell was also fed by news that more americans joined the unemployment line last week, 3,000 people waited outside for hours thursday at a job fair in atlanta. about 20 were treated for heat exposure and exhaustion. adding insult to injury, consumer prices jumped last month, which means americans are paying more from everything from gas to clothing. existing home sales were down in july and manufacturing has weakened in mid-atlantic states. as stocks slid downward, money flooded into u.s. treasurie
welcome to american morning. i m still getting your makeup kit. this is my face in this bag. i hear you. called the magic shop around here in the morning. we love that, don t we? we do. good morning. it s wednesday, june 22nd. ali and christine are off. i m carol costello. a big day, decision day, on the way forward in afghanistan. the president will deliver a prime time speech tonight, and in it he s expected to announce his plans to withdraw 30,000 u.s. troops by the end of 2012. this comes as more leaders are pleading with the president to take money from there and spend it here to fix the crumbling economy. sources say the time frame may be too tight for commanders on the ground. barbara starr is here with us this morning. you wonder, the president, and his mimtry men military men talking in the white house and what that conversation must have been like. how many times have they been down before this road before in the last ten years what to do in afgh