Closed captioning of: Calderon to Congress: Fix immigration
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tempur-pedic.
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mexican president
felipe calderon
is calling on the u.s. to fix a broken immigration system. moments ago, he talked about
border security
and urged the u.s. to stop the flow of
assault weapons
into
mexico
and got standing ovation when he took aim at arizona's new crack down on
illegal immigrants
.
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i strongly disagree with the recently adopted law in arizona. it is a law -- it is a law -- that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased, but also introduced a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for importance.
>>
luke russert
is on
capitol hill
also joining me, maria kumar. luke, when he's talking about immigration, do you think there's a political will on
capitol hill
to tackle that issue this year?
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folks from the left and right will tell you quite frankly and bluntly, no. little less than three weeks ago,
harry reid
introduced what would be the democratic version of a
reform bill
. it included language the republicans liked and providing a path for the
illegal immigrants
already in the country. it has really gotten in traction on
capitol hill
. why? it is such a contention, devicive issue. democrats in the senate do not want to make a tough stand on the immigration issue. folks on both sides they it's not going to get done. a lot of democrats are also pointing out to
president obama
that he needs to make a leadership stand for this to go forward.
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let's go to what calderon had to say about the mexican side of the issue. he said the mexicans don't want
illegal immigration
either. he considers it a problem on the
south side
of the board e, but says american has problem, too. that it's sending cash and guns
south of the border
that fueled the
drug war
and further more, america needs to do something about the drug problem and tell americans to stop doing
illegal drugs
.
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i can tell you that my family is from colombia and the
drug war
was vicious and lasted almost 35 years. if we don't secure our borders or address the issue, it's not in another continent. it's our next door neighbor. he's talking about securing borders, but also addressing the issue that we have semiautomatic weapons crossing the border. 80,000 were confiscated since he's been in august. we have 7,000
gun shops
along the border where it's going one way. they're going through
mexico
and there's a migration of drugs crossing the border, but also
human capital
. folks are saying i can't live in
mexico
because of the
drug war
.
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thank you very much. we have a programming note to
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