whether or not you re coming here to become an american, not just live in america, be an american. did you catch it? it comes down to a kind of foreign born respectability politics. the ones we want and those we don t. maybe we don t even know what we really want and need. immigrants make up nearly 50% of workers in private households and nearly a fifth in could be construction, food services and agricultural. immigrant labor is the foundation of the american economy. listening to wednesday s debate, you d think the only thing the country needs from immigrants are skills that are the tech equivalent to throwing a 95-mile-per-hour fastball. joining me, reverend lewis, senior minister at middle colgate church. raul reyes, attorney and msnbc.com contributor. founding director of the new american leaders project. and joining me and my cold from
apparently they did meet those deadlines and were able to go back in the air. we understand it s fewer than ten aircraft in the fleet for metro jet. this is a carrier, in american terms, a discount carcarrier, flying people back and forth to egypt, a popular vacation spot for them. one thing they ll look at at the airport in sharm el sheikh is the fuel used on the aircraft. and camera footage of anyone who had access to the exterior of the plane while it sat there before being loaded with passengers and taken off on this ill-fated flight, richard. nbc s ron mott reporting for us. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul?
over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80%. and that s why we re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. felons, not families. criminals. not children. gang members, not a mom who s working hard to provide for her kids. ci saw you take a deep breat there. what was that for? i think it s part of the narrative we re being sold. that it s not just skilled immigrants but it s tied to this keep america great. the immigration and economy, immigration and fences and security. the difference is we are willing to accept those immigrants who are going to help keep america at the forefront of sports, at the forefront of certain sectors. but caring for our children and caring for the elderly is an equally valuable job to creating
the u.s. mission in syria is about to get more complicated. the white house announced friday that a small contingent of special operation forces will be sent to northern syria to work with opposition fighters who are battling isis. but the white house insists the u.s. forces will play an advisory role. they will not be engaging in direct combat. i think if we were envisioning a combat operation, we probably would be contemplating more than 50 troops on the ground. because the responsibility they have is not to lead the charge to take a hill but, rather, to offer advice and assistance to those local forces about the best way they can organize their efforts to take the fight to
deals are made over bacon. global trade runs on eggs. we ve got breakfast for everybody. paleo people. we got sausage and bacon. vegan? i don t know what that is, but we got a lot of fresh fruit. you call yourself a glutenarian? hey, we ve got cereal, bagels, toast, everything you can handle. we re insane in the grain! oh, pancakes, huh? i feel you on that. in panama, which is a city of roughly 2 million people we are having 5,000 new cars being sold every month. this is a very big problem for us with respect to fast and efficient transportation. it s kind of a losing proposition to keep going this way. we are trying to tackle the problem with several different modes. one of them is the brand new metro.