workers they would self-deport. romney signaled to the republican base he shared their views on immigration in the language he used to talk about it. almost half the jobs created in texas were created for illegal aliens. instate tuition for illegal citizens. giving tuition breaks for the kids of illegal aliens. four years of college. you can t have any illegals working on our property. i m running for office. the word illegal continues to be used because the word modifies the person, not their status. it s why journalists wants the new york times and other news outlets to stop using the term illegal immigrant. here he is making the plea last month. it s time we retire the word and the term illegal immigrant referring to people.
point, partisan politics and a sitting u.s. attorney general cot in the cross fire. eric holder is in copenhagen this morning. yesterday a house committee voted to recommend citing him for contempt of congress for not turning over documents from that botched fast and furious gun operation. you will remember that program allowed guns to end up in the hands of mexican drug cartels and is connected to the death of at least one u.s. law enforcement officer. those documents are now off limits to republicans and everybody else because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep them under wraps. it brings us to joe jons live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning. good morning, soledad, the contempt issue moves to the full house of representatives as early as neck week. holder is the first obama administration official to be held in contempt by congressional committee. the point man on all of this for the republicans, of course, is chairman darrell issa. he ta
historical context. congratulations on your victory, clayton. thank you. good chatting with you. colleges in one state now offering up tuition breaks for illegal immigrants. sound fair? we will tell you where. a woman who lost overseas outsourcing. citizen stead of looking for a new one, she created one and it s all personal.
illegally and number two, you turn off the magnets like tuition breaks or other breaks that draw people into this country illegally. the answer is self-deportation which is people decide they can do better by going home because they can t find work here. since last year, mitt romney has been staking out a far right stance on immigration. now it sounds like he s taking a new position. this is what he said about president obama on monday. let the immigrant community not forget that while he uses this as a political, as a political weapon, he does not take responsibility for fixing the problems we have. joining us now from austin is victoria de francesco soto. it s great to see you. thank you. let s talk a little bit about the republican problem with hispanics. we speem i think have all paid attention to what mitt romney has said in the leadup in this primary race about hispanics. he s in a lot of ways tried to
is increase taxes which will slow down this economy which will increase the deficit, reduce tax revenues ultimately and increase government payments so you don t work against yourself. very good. whatever you want to say about rick santorum and where he ends up, he s never stumbled and he s sure of himself and has a great deal of experience. they also talked a lot about immigration and some of the comments by newt gingrich where he said that if there s an illegal who has been in this country for 20, 25 years, can you really just kick him out. can you really deport him? the blogosphere is burning up. what are you reading? what are they saying? a lot of them is prompted by the romney camp that said look at that, newt gingrich is calling for amnesty for 12 million americans. right. they didn t like, for example, mitt didn t turn around and michelle bachmann didn t turn around and jump on newt the way that mitt and perry went at it when perry came up on their stance on ille