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Joining us from washington, delores, cofounder of the united farm workers union and immigration rights leader. she was a speaker at today s rally in washington, which drew tens of thousands, i heard from one organizer, 100,000. delores, you ve been working on this issue for some time. we ve seen a comprehensive immigration reform bill come relatively close to fruition and then blow up. given the news today out of the senate and the tens of thousands that have been mobilized, do you feel now like you are winning? i believe that all of the mobilizations have really made it possible for something to happen. you know, we saw maybe 100,000 people that were there at the capitol steps today. there were marches all over the united states, not only in washington, d.c., but many, many cities. ....
President obama himself speaking to the need for consistently sending the message that we need immigration reform in this country, i m not surprised that we are where we are today, and i too, like delores, i m hopeful that we are actually this time going to push through a real common sense immigration reform package. so, here s what i m not hopeful. i actually read pretty closely the details that were leaked today, and they were pretty gnarly in certain ways, i found. this is from the wall street journal. the way the setup is going to be, and delores, i want your feedback, the setup is for those undocumented workers, they will be able to apply upon the passage of the bill for temporary legal residency, so brought out of the shadows. and then they are going to have to wait on this long certification process on the border, which includes, and i m quoting, along the u.s./mexican border, 100% of the border would have to be on surveillance and law enforcement would have to catch 90% of ....
Illegal immigrants would be able to apply for green cards after ten years, only if border security targets had been met and the visa targets had been implemented, according to two people familiar with the plan. if that is the architecture, delores, what is your reaction to that? i think that s kind of unreasonable. we just have to remember that the bill s going to be coming out of the senate first, and it s got to go over to the house side. we look at what happened in 1986 when we got the last big immigration reform, the whole deal was really cut in the conference committee, where we were able to get the farm workers were able to get legalization for them, about a million farm workers and toughen up some of the requirements for them to bring in foreign workers. it all worked very well, actually. so, i think some of the unreasonable things that are in the what they are contemplating right now, i think by the time it gets out of the senate, goes to the house, goes ....
President obama himself speaking to the need for consistently sending the message that we need immigration reform in this country, i m not surprised that we are where we are today, and i too, like delores, i m hopeful that we are actually this time going to push through a real common sense immigration reform package. so, here s what i m not hopeful. i actually read pretty closely the details that were leaked today, and they were pretty gnarly in certain ways, i found. this is from the wall street journal. the way the setup is going to be, and delores, i want your feedback, the setup is for those undocumented workers, they will be able to apply upon the passage of the bill for temporary legal residency, so brought out of the shadows. and then they are going to have to wait on this long certification process on the border, which includes, and i m quoting, along the u.s./mexican border, 100% of the border would have to be on surveillance and law enforcement would have to catch 90% of ....
Joining us from washington, delores, cofounder of the united farm workers union and immigration rights leader. she was a speaker at today s rally in washington, which drew tens of thousands, i heard from one organizer, 100,000. delores, you ve been working on this issue for some time. we ve seen a comprehensive immigration reform bill come relatively close to fruition and then blow up. given the news today out of the senate and the tens of thousands that have been mobilized, do you feel now like you are winning? i believe that all of the mobilizations have really made it possible for something to happen. you know, we saw maybe 100,000 people that were there at the capitol steps today. there were marches all over the united states, not only in washington, d.c., but many, many cities. we re seeing this big movement on the ground, and i believe ....