of eight, senators wokking on immigration reform, are set tore a meeting. they will speak at a tour of the u.s. border with mexico and arizona today. now joining me now live, nbc news senior political editor, mark murray. so much going on with the supreme court as well as updates with legislation or fight for something to pass with gun control. you have immigration now, the focus for the president, with these big interviews today. that s right. and in one respect, he is probably trying to put pressure on congress and senate and come up with legislation. the senate right now, they have bipartisan support which is something you don t see with the gun control legislation that is supposed to hit the senate floor next month. but unlike the senate gun issue, there isn t legislation as it relates it immigration reform. so there is going to be a lot of pressure for these bipartisan senators to come up with legislation that they don t have yet. they have bipartisan support, just not the legis
our immigration system is not working. our communities, workers and employers are all frustrated by a system that treats a drug smuggler the same as a high achieving student. undercuts honest employers, and leaves millions in fear of deportation and vulnerable to fraud and other crimes. reporter: napolitano added that border enforcement under the obama administration is stronger now than it has ever been and that more people have been deported under the obama administration than at any other administration. jenna. jenna: doug mckelway live in d.c. doug, thank you. jon: let s talk a little more about this now with fox news political analyst angela mcglowan. the seminan ticks are interesting to me. everybody calls it immigration reform. it is really immigration repair. the system that ronald reagan supposedly fixed back in 1986 is badly broken. it is immigration repair and the system is broken and i m glad we re having this hearing today. working in washington, d.c.
basically, the take away here is qualified mortgage. that s a term you re going to hear a lot more of and now the industry standard. mike: what do you think of the new regulations? is it better for us or the bank? i think that remains to be seen. i think this is in general, i think this is pretty good on the heels of two other mortgage related settlements with private lenders this week and ang all of this will provide more confidence in the marketplace for some lenders to stop looking back at the last six years and start lending to qualified. what are the rates. 30-year fixed below 4%. i think it will stay there for the year. alisyn: morgan, thank you. thank you. alisyn: what is up next for president obama? is it immigration reform? you better watch out. it looks like one republican already has some of his ideas in the works. we re live from washington with details of this. mike: plus, a happy homecoming on the the ice. how one military dad pulled off one of the best su
by huge margins. the gop is making their first post-election play at winning some of those voters back. today republicans voted to limit legal immigration to this country and called it immigration reform. the stem jobs act passed in the house earlier 245-139. house republicans tried to pass a version of the bill a few months back and failed. why? because the stem act is a mad bill. the white house has voiced its opposition to it because it doesn t pave a way forward for millions of undocument workers who are already here and pits communities against one another. it would provide green cards pr those skilled in science and technology and math. foreign internationals who have earned degrees from an american university can stay here and use their skills to improve the american workforce. sounds like a great idea, right? sure, but it does so at the expense of other immigrants.
now the gop is making its first post-election play at winning some of those voters back. today republicans voted to limit legal immigration to this country and called it immigration reform. the stem jobs act passed in the house earlier 245-139. house republicans tried to pass a version of the bill a few months back and failed. why? because the s.t.e.m. act is a bad bill. the white house has voiced its opposition to it because it doesn t pave a way forward for millions of undocumented workers in this country who are already here and pits immigrant communities against one another. the s.t.e.m. act would provide green cards for immigrants skilled in science, technology, engineering and math. foreign nationals who have earned a ph.d. or master s in one of those fields from an american university can stay here and use their skills to improve the american workforce. sounds like a great idea, right? sure, but it does so at the expense of other immigrants. and as the new york times