immigrants affected are not formally legal, they're not on a path to citizenship and they can not vote right now they do help unions at election time in terms of all of the volunteer activities like phone banks and door-knocking that unions do and the second thing is i think that the unions believe that these immigrants will ultimately be on a path to citizenship. i think that they hope that they will ultimately vote democrat. so there is a benefit now and there is a long term benefit. eric: byron york. fascinating. we'll see how it shakes out in the new year. >> thank you, eric. eric: absolutely. >> president obama marking the end of combat operations in afghanistan telling returning marines that we are safer now than we were before the war began. so is that really the case? eric: a get that, well, you know, simply couldn't wait. look at this. a woman goes into labor on that crowded train. >> we were there doing what we