jose antonio vargas , great to have you with us. respond to what you just heard in the debate. >> i'm having a hard time hearing you. amy: can you hear us? >> yes, can you hear me? amy: yes. can you respond to what you just heard in the debate, were donald trump and marcorubio and ted cruz going at it over the issue of immigration. journalist, it is rather frustrating to hear candidates debate immigration and even more s,ustrating to hear journalist people like wolf blitzer and chuck todd, marcorubio made a claim last night about, we are not going to do anything until we secure the border. this is what marco rubio has been same for months. it is hard to get a reporter to say, wait a second, according to fax, the pew research center says undocumented immigration in this country has been at the same level for five years. the center for migration studies said it is actually down i think 10.3 undocumented immigrants are the lowest ever since 2003. these are facts. why could it will berlin -- wolf blitzer say that last night yet the whit

jose antonio vargas.lause) and for everyone at home, join our conversation right now on twitter, @nightlyshow, hashtag "tonightly. alright. tonight i want to talk about the latino vote - a huge diverse community that the candidates can't seem to figure out. i i mean, you have cubans, puerto ricans, dominicans, mexicans... so why does it seem like all hispanics are lumped together? is that a mistake? >> it's easy to streamline. but i don't think the candidates know we're different. >> the political reporters know they're different, right? >> yes. ou put marco rubio and ted cruz in los angeles, i'm not sure they'll do that well. >> larry: different culture. but kind of how they lump all asian people together. i'm philippine o. you see an asian looking person with a spanish name, it means their filipino. it's called colloquialism. >> larry: america's head exploded. (laughter) >> and i'm mentioned in bloc studies in college, i'm gay, undocumented -- i'm trying to get people as uncomfortable as possible. >> la

and jose antonio vargas, a prize-winning journalist. just a background for our viewers.ates, you were 12 years old and you didn't learn of your immigration status, that your green card wasn't legitimate until you went to get a driver's license. >> yeah until i was 16. you made a film about that experience airing on cnn called "undocumented" now you've started a campaign called emerge u.s. i want our viewers to take a quick look at what this campaign is. ♪ ♪ >> eye identify -- >> i identify -- >> i identify -- >> i can identify as -- >> about how the american electorate is changing so much. as you sit and you look at immigration debate now in this election, what are your thoughts? >> i think what is astounding to me are just the lack of facts, right? i'm a reporter at heart. that's what emergingus.com is about. check it out. for many people, as a latino brown mexican issue. really the largest, fastest growing undocumented in this country are asian undocumented people. not latinos. no matter how many times donald trump or marco rubio talk about what is happening at the bor

. >> and joining me now is jose antonio vargas. thank you so much for joining us.here is this big battle. we know the importance for bernie sanders to be able to say he won the latino vote in nevada would end the argument that he can't win a diverse electorate. he may not be able to win many others but he could point to nevada here. >> yes. i think especially looking forward to super tuesday you have texas with a large latino population. i think colorado is another one, minnesota is another one. i think the sanders campaign wants to say the latino vote is not a lot for the clinton campaign. i want to know given nevada has a sizable asian and filipino population. have we heard about the asian vote in nevada? >> right now we have asia pacific islander population is 9%. we don't have exit poll information regarding that but i know it is of interest to you because you point out people undocumented in this country and talk about the growing population and the diversity of the electorate for the democratic party we must be inclusive of asian population. >> that is what e