i have victorino morales who complained of years of threats of deportation.his changed dramatically when he became president and these supervisors would listen to him on tv talk about immigrants. >> and now they have a new problem. the smart thing to do, forgive the cynicism, would be to deport these people and get them out of here. but it's complicated now. they could have done that before all of this, but now that there are some early investigations of some of these matters, yes, so what happens if you deport them? >> well, first of all, at this point, they are all material witnesses of a major federal crime. a multi-state conspiracy. and any attempt to remove them from the united states is obstruction of justice. and that's why we travel to washington, we spoke to members of the senate -- >> you were at the state of the union with a couple of these people? >> yes, we were there last night, but we also traveled last week to washington. i believe that members of the house are circulating a letter. i believe senator menendez from new jersey is also asking for