immigration changes? republicans give us a call at 202-748-8001. democrats call us at 202-748-8000. .ndependents call 202-748-8002 undocumented immigrants call 202-748-8003. we are on social media, the twitter handle @cspanwj and we are on facebook at facebook.com/c-span. the president's position on so-called dreamers has shifted since the election. here is the headline in the new york times. dreamers to stay in the u.s. for now but their long-term fake is not clear. fa -- is not clear -- host: let's listen to what then candidate donald trump had to say during a campaign stop. donald trump: we are going to end catch and release. [applause] under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country, and back to the country from which they came. [applause] be brought great distances, not dropping them right across. president eisenhower dropped them right across and they came back to when they flew them a long-distance, that was the end. we will take them great distances and take them to the country where they came from. ok? coverslicia caldwell immigration and homeland security for the associated press. she is on the phone. remind us the origins of these policies. guest: the childhood arrivals program was launched five years ago on june 15. announced rather by the white house. the idea was that congress has not acted, sympathetic people, the administration, the obama administration wanted to give them an opportunity to be safe from deportation while congress had a chance to act on some sort of reform bill that, in the eyes of many, would have protected this group of people. these are young people, many of whom who arrived as a very young children. some did not know they were not u.s. citizens until they went to get drivers licenses or jobs. the idea was to create a stopgap measure that would allow for a temporary reprieve. odd years later, 787,000 young immigrants have taken up the government's offer and then at approved for this program which provides a work permit. not only do they have permission tuesday, they get a work permit. the parental program was the follow-on. it extended the same protections, temporary reprieve from deportation and a work permit to parents of u.s. citizens or legal permanent residents. my understanding is there was discussion to expanding it to ka kids, theof da obama administration decided to go with parents of u.s. citizens. in some cases the families overlap where one family has one and the other is a u.s. citizen or permanent residents but the parent -- that program never fully launched. it was litigated and 26 states with some challenging is legality. holdge in texas but it on and that whole has been upheld by eight appeals court and the litigation is still pending, which, according to homeland security, prompted the revocation of the memo that created the second program, the parental program. wereer program is or treated -- created by executive order or law, they were created by memo. executive authority. all that is required to finish them is what we saw yesterday, the risk vision -- the rescission of the memo. host: how big a victory is this for immigration rights activists? guest: hard to tell. nothing had been implemented as far as the parents and for many, they view it as a significant loss, hoping the court would have seen it their way, that this was a lawful use of executive authority. and the program would have stayed in place. hard to tell, if this had been litigated fully through the supreme court, and had gone the way of conservative opponents, it would have gone away and ruled not legal. had it gone the way of immigrants rights activist and immigrants fighting for it, the administration could have said, we get that it is legal but still not going to do it. it is a policy memo. in terms of the daca, the childhood program that is still in place, hard to tell if it is a win or status quo. the administration was rather vague in the early hours of this release late thursday night. this fact sheet of the formal daca, excuse me, the paris program, there is a line in that message the childhood arrival program will remain in place which was a lingering question sent president trump took office. during the campaign, this was a top priority for elimination. he said he would eliminate amnestieso illegal immediately or some phrase similar to that. the idea was to write away get rid of these programs. that has not happened. uscis, the agency that processes these applications, is still processing them. new applications, renewals. the numbers of people participating goes up every quarter. the numbers for the second quarter were just released and it is going up in the natural flow, much the way it did during the obama administration. host: the trump administration is aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration, stepping up deportations. isn't that right? guest: sort of. immigration enforcement, absolutely, the arrests are up. we are talking about people living in the united states illegally. folks are hearing every day about somebody who is gone to an immigration and customs enforcement office to check in routinely and is arrested. they encountered an agent and do not have status and are arrested. what is lingering in the background is the number of deportations is slightly down. issue, a multifactor including but not limited to, the number of people caught crossing the mexican border has plummeted. that is the best figure available to gauge how many people are trying to come into the country illegally. right now, it is a record lows. the border patrol has estimated it is probably a 40 year low in terms of the monthly apprehension rate. i believe 14,000 people were arrested at the border last month. , so doe numbers plummet the number of deportations. it is an issue that deportation is a complicated process. just because somebody is arrested for being in the country illegally which is not a federal crime, a civil violation. the process to order somebody out of the country can be lengthy and complicated. at this stage of the game, not seeing a significant rise, or any rise in deportations. that may change but we are seeing a lot of arrests but not a lot of deportations. host:a i demo -- alicia caldwell and immigration reporter for the associated press, thank you for your time. post, saying he would look at the dreamers and be fair, he is doing that and i love how he is going after the gangs and illegal immigrate -- criminal illegal immigrants. in from south carolina, democrat line, what do you think? caller: i think it is chipping away at the margins. and kicking the can down the road. happy, not make anybody the immigration population still has high unrest as to not knowing where they are sitting. now. those opposed to immigration are saying, in a way, he did not keep his promise. he promised to do this. it is about time somebody take this whole immigration situation seriously and come up with a true immigration policy that can be implemented, that makes sense , that everyone understands exactly what it is. we have not had that. thinkthat happens, i there will be high unrest. host: let's go to ginny from lancaster, ohio. good morning. caller: i am a republican. i think donald trump is doing a very good job. he is going after people who are selling drugs and illegal, they do not belong here. i do not understand why nobody will look at that. i read a book on china, we tried to vote a wallop in the 1800s to m out? keep the host: i was not aware of that. caller: i was not either, they wanted to keep opium out of here. from new's go to barry york, new york, independent line. what do you think of the president's approach to immigration? caller: i think it is very important. i am an independent in my own parents were immigrants from world war ii, they survived auschwitz, they waited seven years to come to the united states legally. recently, i was the victim of immigration marriage fraud. i take responsibility for being stupid but i was tricked into marrying someone strictly looking for the green card paper. withi have been dealing immigration enforcement, they brushed it off as, we know this happens every day and they do not do anything about it. we should have illegal immigration, legal immigration is a wonderful things and helped build this country. but there are so many people who come here and i was individually victimized because there were people who sneak into this country, many are anti-american as i experienced. the immigration enforcement services, until this point, has been this big bureaucracy where enforcement is not dealt with properly. anyone can come in here and we see the incidents all around the world. we have to be aware that there are people who want to hurt us. it is very important. sometimes the rhetoric about anti-immigration goes over the top but it is very important we are aware that there has to be a legal process, nobody is against legal people coming in. there has to be a process that is followed. host: sterling, virginia, republican line, gray do you do you- gray -- gary, think there should be protections for people brought here illegally as children? caller: absolutely, if you do not know the language, customs, ng near impossible to make a living or survive. it is a real tragedy. this is why i cannot understand birthey were against the control. i work 15 years, 10 restaurants, i asked the amigos, i speak a little spanish, i asked them what they wanted and they said, let me ask everybody and get back to you. helpedays later he said with birth control. i said, but your religion, he said it does not matter, half of us come from homes with dirt floors and seven brothers and sisters on average. this is 20 guys and girls at one restaurant. over the next six months, i have people from all the other restaurants would come up and say the same thing. help with birth control and a registered worker program. fair.ght, that seems . was shocked they were not interested in american citizenship. people do have pride in their own countries, even if it is a little country like honduras or el salvador. is calling from mississippi, independent line. good morning. caller: i want to point out one thing. , we will celebrate the 400 years that african-americans have been in this country. for the people that built this country with their souls and their blood, sweat, tears, 85% of the economy finance for europe and the industrial revolution. the people 150 years ago had more foresight when they made the 13th amendment for only african-americans, not meant for somebody from china to stay in a hotel room and have a couple of babies and we take care of their children forever. i do not care where you're from, address that first, we have been the bedrock of this country and we are the most disenfranchised. nobody cares because we have dark skin and curly hair. i am a veteran. i would advise most african-americans to leave this country. host: here is an article from this conservative publication, national review, headline is good riddance to daca. about the merits, or lack thereof, little doubt president obama justification for his orders were laughable, no congressional inaction clause in the constitution under which the president can unilaterally enact .aws that the congress will not this was never an active prosecutorial discretion, attempt to waive the immigration laws for broad categories of people and precisely how immigration officials interpreted them. the trump administration is hardly unmitigated good news with their announcement and the areon for reversing dapa the reasons for reversing daca by the administration has no plans to end or curtail that program and they are granting new work permits to applicants despite the president promised during the campaign that he would immediately terminate daca because it was in violation of federal law and the present now by his own measure carrying out a lawless program. written by the editors of "national review." sam, republican, calling from mount pleasant, pennsylvania. caller: thank you for taking my call. the situation with illegal immigration, we know it is a quagmire. it is not solvable by quick means. when you have a large population of people who are culturally americans, brought here by their parents by the will of their own. , the real reason why a love of people know why they are coming here, they vote they -- it is, good financial aid. these are the migrant farm workers. they come here and our citizens. they get a clean place on their credit scores. it helps big business. i do not think people realize that. host: that is something i have heard in this area, the washington, d.c. area, landscaping companies have taken a hit because they do not have the workers they need. same is true for farmers in the midwest, is that right? caller: exactly, people can say don't you want cheap labor for farms, no, we could increase aid for farms. more subsidies for farms. if we need workers that are cheap, we should allocate resources to agriculture instead of trying to cheapen labor. this is going against our worker laws. arehe same time, we displacing our political landscape. they come here and want to vote left for welfare and more immigration. it messes with the country. -- a we have a tweet from question -- what changes, trump failing to build a wall and supporting no one different than obama was. support or oppose the trump administration's immigration changes. for republicans is -- the line for republicans is 202-748-8001. democrats call 202-748-8000. independents call 202-748-8002. if you are undocumented call 202-748-8003. eddie in los angeles calling on the independent line, good early morning to you. caller: good morning to you and the other listeners. it is really simple. it is a racial situation. it is not legal. it has been an invasion. the politicians best war on the bible to uphold the constitution live. to say that they are compassionate and we feel for them, look, you owe the native americans, you owe african-americans, and you refuse to pay. tell the truth, it is a racial situation. the emitted affirmative act -- the minute affirmative action kicked in, reagan took over immigration. that is who got it, corporate america. as long as we allow that. owes,er, america california was named after a black woman, we were here before 6019. los angeles was discovered mainly by african-americans. the history is a lot and the -- we need to get rid of black politicians in the city's and make everyone -- everything sanctuary. host: leonard from kentucky. i wanted to make a comment or two about everybody coming over here and stuff. states is getting overpopulated. -- if the good lord put place back and where they originally were at, the world would be a better place. blacks should be put back into africa. host: let's go to margaret from grand isle, nebraska. on the line for independents. caller: good morning. i would like to correlate the immigration problem with nafta. i have a strong belief that a lot of it has to do with the american trade. and where that is going. trump should be concerning himself with that. thank you. host: let's listen to president trump speaking in a february 2017 press coverage when asked specifically about his plans for daca, a program for children brought here illegally. is adent trump: daca difficult subject for me, one of the most difficult subjects i have because you have these incredible children come in many cases, not in all cases, some cases they are having drug dealers and gang members. you have some incredible kids. mostly. they were brought here in such a subject, we tough withto deal with daca heart, i have to convince politicians that what i am .aying is right i appreciate your understanding on that. the daca situation is a very difficult thing for me. i love the kids. i have kids and grandkids. i find it very hard doing 20 law says to do. the law is rough, not new laws, existing laws are very rough. host: let's go to new jersey where george is on the independent line. caller: good morning. i wanted to say that it is largely a combination of economy and race. 20 years ago when the economy the -- good and white people had good jobs, nobody cared how many illegal aliens were here but in the last 10 years, seven years, eight years, since people for jobsompete with -- they would not take 10 years ago, suddenly immigration is the problem. tom paxton had a great line in a song, when the people get lost, they start building across. that is what we have done in this country with immigration. we have built a cross and blamed people who want to be here for the economy and for a downturn in what is going on. it is largely a matter of selecting a group of people who are very innocent. we want to blame them with regard to the economy. and making sure we make them the scapegoats for what is happened. now that we have to compete for jobs we did not want 20 years ago, suddenly it is a problem. thank you. host: another tweet. american kids have dreams too, mexicans should stay and fight for change in mexico instead of bringing them here. -- there to here. memphis, tennessee, democrat line, good morning jasper. flewr: when fidel castro the cubans down to florida, he threw them out for a reason, because the corporate american was taken over cuba and taking people's money and putting people in prison for nothing, fidel castro got tired of them and kick them out and now they are over here trying to do the same thing. keep in people -- cuban people that got kicked out a republicans tried to do the same thing here. host: let's go to sheila and maryland, republican line, what do you think of the trump administration's approach to immigration? caller: i am happy with most of it. i believe he just got rid of dapa. one of the reasons i voted for him was because he happens to dapa or twoa and of the worst programs obama brought into this country and i kind of agree, you read something about american children having dreams also. they need to take care of americans first. and there has been issues with some of the kids on daca that are becoming gang members. a small percentage but it is a program -- i do not agree with it being here. i also wanted to bring up -- i feel like the lower courts, the fourth circuit and ninth circuit, in maryland, the fourth circuit, the president wanted to lower the amount of immigrants coming into this country to 50,000. the court said you have to leave it at 100,000. i think that when you have the lower courts regulating the immigration process in this country, it is just wrong. it should not be the lower courts doing it. even with the travel ban -- i do not have anything against muslims but these lower courts are denying the rights of 300 some million non-muslim americans. we have rights also. there is a lot of fear. host: let me ask you this, the atlantic magazine, david from ,ights, trump but raise voters the administration's decision policy iser the daca an announcement that donald trump played his voters for fools. caller: he did speak against the program. agency he formed for american families who have lost children to a few of these kids in daca who became gang members. he presented these families as a platform and he promised to get rid of it, and he changed up which i am not happy about. host: thank you for your call. let's go to carl in kansas city, missouri, democrat line. caller: i do not know where to start. i pray and fear for america because there is a real problem. there is an incredible amount of the country and ignorance on this issue. kind of like canada, they have a program where if you speak french or english, you get so many points and so many points for every year of education and job skills. america has sold out on free enterprise because we are passing up an opportunity to get a lot of talented people. a lot of these talented people are expressing negative opinions, do not know many people over here working hard and who sacrificed everything and to have a home with children and they are good people. --ust think our country first of all, we stole half of the united states from spain. in those days, that was legal so i will i get self-righteous. we stole half of the country from the latinos and the other half from the indians. and we missed treated the blacks. what they are doing, the power cauldron -- culture is putting struggling groups against each other and divide and conquer. the people calling in, and a lot of them are trying to work this -- this is a hard problem but kicking people out -- we need to have a point system and get good people in here. we need to have -- they are in here and there is no requirement they get to live here. we could have a different tier of laws that if they do not toe the line, if they are criminals or violent, get them out. you know what -- i have been watching the news and this guy kelly, some of these people instituting these situations are racists. they are kicking out good people. they have people afraid and the sanctuary city makes sense for .ome people and for the police most of them support it because , a cannot have a population subculture of people who are afraid to call the police when they are being abused or exploited. this is a complicated problem. congress should be ashamed of themselves. because canada and some of the other countries -- and look, let's stop with the wars because every time we have a war, hundreds of thousands of people who are loyal to america have to get the hell out of their country. tohave a moral obligation help them, vietnamese, iraqis, afghanistan's, some of these people, there are bad people sneaking in. but there is an awful of translators and medics and people like that. this country, what happened to free enterprise? host: kathleen in los angeles, california, republican line. immigration is a big deal in california and what is your view? caller: it is a huge deal. and good morning. the sanctuary cities are killing , smothering black america. the new neighborhood for black america is skid row. americansss for black has skyrocketed. this guy from new jersey and the other guy from missouri are spewing liberal propaganda. it is not true. there has been a problem since it has been enacted. since the civil rights act. it has been a problem for black americans. black americans have been in this country 400 years, what about the kids of black americans, our children, for 10% increase in immigration, black america loses one half of 1% of their wealth. increased 700% since the 1970's. , until the liberal propaganda that the callers from new jersey and missouri are spewing, is the fact. the data is the fact. host: what part of los angeles do you live in? compton --ed to have caller: we used to have compton, watts, inglewood, lock it now,e, baldwin hills, inglewood, watts, where have black people gone? we do not have jobs, they do construction work. black young men need construction jobs. these people are taking the -- now, you have illegal immigrants complaining about -- keg -- legal immigrants complaining about you illegal immigrants. black people need to stop voting democrat, like maxine waters who push for even eagle immigration. we do not understand what politics and economics is. exempt fromis not the laws of supply and demand and this is unbelievable. host: george calling in from ohio, democrat line. caller: i got a question for the ever --uld you [indiscernible] republicans are all racist. look what trump got. he got bannon who is a racist. host: gene calling from florida, independent line. what do you think about president trump's approach to immigration? caller: i think he is so wrong about immigration and that man or woman talking about new jersey, i was originally from new jersey, let me tell you that black people are wonderful in new jersey. of course there are bad spots where children are on the streets. i think they stop the gangs. i want to talk about the wall he wants to build. people claiming our toilets are mulling a reliance. -- mowing our lawns. do you think my grandchildren want to cut the grass. you think my granddaughter wants to clean the toilets after an education in college? he is out of his mind if he thinks the jobs these children want. host: a facebook post from nadine. she says, so far an important step in the right direction by enforcing current laws. progress has already been made and while there will never be zero illegal immigration we must improve the record by all means available. montana,om hamilton, democrat line. caller: hello? as far as the illegal immigration, they should set -- we have certain consequences if you break the law and they should have a rule that if you break the rule, you should serve so much time. it could be money but most people coming across the border do not have money to pay for what they do wrong. they should set a deal down, if you come across the border illegally, you have to serve so much time for doing it. so that when they come across, they get punished. because it is not legal. host: another tweet, unfortunately for both parties, narrativemmigration is palpable, always begun to scapegoat in economic downturns. i call from reston, virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. i am from france. i have been in this country for 60 years. i believe in immigration. i had to go to the law when i came into this country. who come intoople this country and have babies. they use the system and do not pay tax. i am 81 years old and still working. these shop -- the law should be applied for everybody. thank you so much. host: john is calling from rock hill, south carolina, a democrat. caller: my comment was that most americans do not know the process to come into the country legally. you can try to come in legally but sometimes, with some countries, the wait time is years, some of them it is decades. ,ven when you get to your term that is my guarantee you will get in. they do not know the expense and when you are hungry and do not have a decent place to live, you do not have the luxury of waiting 5, 10, 15 years to come into the country when you have a family to support. even if you wait that long, it does not guarantee you will get in. even to become a citizen, a lot of americans, if they were to try to take a citizenship test, a lot of them would not know the answers to pass the test. i want them to consider that. they may say it is easy, but to come here legally, it is a challenge. it is a challenge and when people are desperate, desperate measures have to be taken. host: what accounts for your firsthand knowledge of the immigration process? caller: my wife had to do the process for her to come in, not to come in, she came in with a visitors visa at that process is expensive and takes a long time. all kinds of complications and i have relatives who have had to go through the process. it is quite expensive and a longtime. -- a cousin of mine, it took him eight years, nine years to come into this country. at the last minute they redo the paperwork because the process took so long that he became a legal adult and had to restart another process to come in. host: let's go to gloria in bridgewater, new jersey. republican. good morning. caller: i am very pleased to see the change in attitude towards mexicans who have been here and have children, and have raised, they have the same goals that we do. they fit very well into our society. we need immigration. i think that it is an asset for us. they have the same goals and aspirations. i find they work very hard. they are very family oriented. i think it is a plus for our society and i applaud the change in attitude. on calling from that is, tennessee, independent line. caller: good morning. my thing on immigration, down here in memphis, these guys do construction and cut grass. i see nothing wrong with it because there were hard workers. i think a lot of people have a men, they caucasian work cheaper. ,t will start affecting them they will do work cheaper than most americans. that is a problem with a lot of people but they work hard. you have the people coming from the middle east, if you go from city to city or state to state, a lot of them come in and own gas stations or convenient stores. it is like they are getting ahead better than people who have been here their entire life. that is the way i see it. that is my comment. host: let's go to tennessee, democratic line, tiffany. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: what do you think of the president's approach to immigration? caller: i agree with the last guy, they come over here and open gas stations, do not bother anybody. they are not bothering nobody and want a normal life, like we have a normal life and why would you want to hurt somebody like that? ever since donald trump has been in office, people getting murdered. he just needs to get out of office and get somebody in office who will not cause problems. --n obama was in office people were not getting killed at concerts because they were matted donald trump. at donald -- mad trump. host: ike calling from arkansas, republican line. caller: i taught school in los angeles and one of my students, i said what happened this weekend, i was rate by an illegal -- raped by an illegal. my car was stolen by an illegal. some say we are safer with mexicans. figures do not lie but liars can figure. ody calling from morgan hill, california, on the line for democrats. caller: i wanted to talk briefly. i come from santa clara county in california. a diverse area. there is a danger that we need to be more open-minded to others in our country. there is a lot that goes on in terms of people who are just not aware. we are getting our information for different things -- from different things and we talk about the media. we can come up with as much personal stories but we do not hold on to the belief that, in america, we have to find a way to support each other. whether you are latino, white, asian, many things we have a common good and people are sticking to their sides of the political spectrum. without data as far as the trump policy, i think that most people are good people. we all want to do the best for our families. we can either have two mentalities, work together for peace or try to get the best outcome for our group, whatever you identify with. host: a facebook post from bill king, the curve administration can use all the tricks they want, policies are still anti-immigrant as is the muslim ban, . host: maryland, independent line, good morning, blair. caller: i want to make three quick points. thebigger issue is that idea of deportation, the issue is that the way president trump is going about it is politically incorrect. if i killed somebody and five have past, i would still committed a crime, the crime still enforceable, i think it is very interesting that there is an issue with it because it is politically incorrect. the second thing i was going to say is -- there is more to illegal immigrants than mexicans. there are immigrants coming from all over the world. we need to look at the bigger picture, just not mexico. a bigason there is such issue with the united states because they need reform, my stepfather was trying to come to this country for five years and when he finally -- his papers went through the past away suddenly, it takes 5, 6 years to come to this country and if you reform the system, we will not have a big issue like we do. we have harriet calling from florida, on the line for democrats. good morning, harriet. caller: good morning. i was calling to talk about the immigration reversal. host: go ahead. caller: i think it causes a lot of problems. for people. when we close our borders. especially me. i am retired. i am a widower. i have always had a fetish for indian men. host: marlene calling from north carolina on the line for independents. caller: good morning, how are you? host: all right, thanks. caller: i am disgusted with donald trump, i am in north carolina but i moved from new jersey. what people do not understand -- i cannot hear you. host: go ahead. caller: hello? i could not hear you. something went dead, i could see her mouth -- host: it is the delay. go ahead. ,aller: i moved from new jersey it seems innocent when all these children walk across the border. in new jersey, each one of those children walking across the border causes the taxpayer $50,000 per year. any woman that walks across the pregnant eight months and has a child here which automatically becomes a citizen, costs the taxpayers a fortune because you will pay for them and their mother until they are 18 years old. i believe in legal immigration but anyone here illegally should have to leave the country. there is a difference when people call in to c-span. i am an old lady and my family fought in the revolutionary war. the problem is that a lot of people have called in and they do not have knowledge. if you want to know why a lot of middle eastern feaster -- people own 7-eleven's because the government had a program that lend them the money when they came here. to open those doors. .- stores they pay no taxes for seven years and at the end of the seven years, they turn it over to a relative and keep that up. host: another tweet, we are a nation of laws, simply cannot justify even legal immigration, options are reform the law or deportation. elroy in memphis, tennessee, democrat line. what do you think about this? caller: i think there needs to be reform on the legislation. both sides need to work together, democrats and republicans. say that it is hard to put something together just to please other people. that is the truth. if we work together, they can get things done and get a smarter bill passed. saying trump is not smart, not trying to our. host: what stock, connecticut, -- woodstock, connecticut, ben on the line for republicans. caller: we should follow the laws, to let somebody in who has already broken laws is against the law. the lady from north carolina is right. if you want to build a wall, how do you pay for it, take benefits away we are giving illegal aliens. i was born in america and my father was born near, his father was born here. i cannot afford health insurance but if you are an illegal alien, you are getting health insurance, over 100,000 of them are. there is the money for the wall. host: lewis from l myra, new york on the line from independence. thatr: i would like to say i am anti-hillary as i am anti-trump but the immigration system needs reform. i think we have hard-working people that are coming over the borders and none of the people are as terrible or demonic as trump would like to portray them. i feel like so many people are struggling. i have been to mexico. were were people that homeless everywhere. they needed food and clothing. i went there on a mission trip and try to help them. the people saying that the mexicans are coming here and these drugive us all dealers and murderers and rapists like donald trump portrayed, they have never seen the struggle. they have never looked in their eyes. and had to answer questions, why will not we help them? and tell them it is not our problem. i do not understand why that is. host: i call from brookhaven, mississippi, on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: good morning. what you are on the air, do you think about the president's approach to immigration? caller: i was calling in to ask a question. thelady who called in about people that are coming over and opening of the stores in the federal government was loaning them money to run the stores and after seven years, they would turn it over to another family member. i have asked this question and i am a city official. for 28 years. we do things like that. they will come in after so many years and we give them -- and it goes in somebody else's name. is this real? i have been told it is not. because they have families in the united states that have could have done that. as a black person, i would have liked to have done that. if i have -- if i could have gotten the money to open of the business. host: reactions from capitol hill to the president's decision. from a republican congressman from virginia, he said -- chair of the house judiciary committee, he says it was right to end it when host: let's go to tom from columbia, maryland, on for republicans. both of them are obstructing congress. to seriously get it done. instead of leaving it up to the president to exert executive privilege. host: our last call from the segment comes from clayton, missouri, on the line for independents. caller: good morning, how are you? host: doing well. caller: great. democracy is probably one of the greatest political philosophies created by man. thatnfortunate reality is our country place in both ways. ons country was built bigotry, hatred, racism. thatur opponents are using to destabilize our country. when it is convenient, we use the self-serving trap laws to promote the privileged class and white supremacy. when it is inconvenient, we take it. , we at the american indian rounded them up and drove them west on the trail of tears. black slaves placed in chains. japanese people rounded up and taken from them. convenient. now it is tearing the country apart and when we get back to democracy and the respect for human dignity, this country will be destroyed. coming up, the 45th anniversary of the watergate break-in. historian ken hughes will talk about the impact that had on u.s. politics. later we will look at the changes announced by president trump when it comes to u.s.-cuba policy. we talked to frank mora. ♪ >> t

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