before. >>> joining us is john stanton from buzzfeed. >> good to be here. >> i was amazed to go back and see the comparison to 1987 with the pressure the catholic bishops were putting on reagan then and the pressure put by advocates and catholic bishops and others on president obama now. that is so parallel. what seems very, very different is the other side of it. what seems very different is the character of the anti-immigrant lobby. i guess i have to ask if that squares with what you're seeing with this furor over the prospect of immigration reform in washington. >> to a certain degree, yes. a bit of it, though, also is just the general really just distaste for president obama on the republican side. he can be doing almost anything on a unilateral or executive basis and republicans would probably get outraged. they have this sort of pending lawsuit about executive orders that's been nebulous. maybe it's obama care.