can you imagine over 100,000 stories just like beatrice is happening in this country. it is a shame. and we're also hurting yourselves. you know, the cost of mass deportation to our economy is staggering. the center for american progress, the same study quoted earlier also estimates the mass deportation would reduce u.s. gross domestic product at $2.6 trillion over ten years and that's not even including the actual cost of deportation. this economic impact of this deportation would lead to widespread job losses throughout the united states. and not only that, there's a lot of evidence that the stepped-up enforcement of the bush years and now into the obama years actually helped trigger the housing bust that now has led to this economic recession, one of the worst that we've seen since the great depression. so we're hurting ourselves by being immoral and attacking hard-working immigrants in the united states. he had a simple message. stop the deportations. have comprehensive immigration reform. resident obama come he promised our members, you promised our community. ple

[applause] >> thank you beatrice.s is happening despite our many contributions of the immigrant. our next speaker is artemio arreola. >> thank you. immigrant workers have been the backbone of americas. immigrants have always done the hard work that was asked of them, and we always will. today we are hear to say we are tired of a broken immigration systems that forces workers to live in the shadows because our elected leaders don't have the courage to fix the system excite the hate and fear amongers. we are tired of the bureaucracy thateeies art for decades and we are tired of being made promises to and tolding our crying children like beatrice as they watch their parents being taken away and deported. we know immigrants and other people of color are the first people often to lose their jobs. we also know that immigration reform will be an economic boost to this country. the center for american progress has reported that passing an immigration reform bill would actually put $1.5 trillion into our economy over the next

[applause] >> thank you beatrice. this is happening despite our many contributions of the immigrant. our next speaker is artemio arreola. >> thank you. immigrant workers have been the backbone of americas. immigrants have always done the hard work that was asked of them, and we always will. today we are hear to say we are tired of a broken immigration systems that forces workers to live in the shadows because our elected leaders don't have the courage to fix the system excite the hate and fear amongers. we are tired of the bureaucracy that keeps families apart for decades and we are tired of being made promises to and tolding our crying children like beatrice as they watch their parents being taken away and deported. we know immigrants and other people of color are the first people often to lose their jobs. we also know that immigration reform will be an economic boost to this country. the center for american progress has reported that passing an immigration reform bill would actually put $1.5 trillion into our econom

beatrice, also north of salina.hen along parts of 70 from hays over to kansas city you see the scattered showers driving along that area with plenty of cloud cover. on the back half of the system it is not rain but snow you'll be dealing with south of denver and the high levels of the rockies. some places could get up to a foot of snowfall. what we can anticipate in terms of temperatures will be pretty pleasant especially if you happen to be in the dallas/ft. worth area. most of the rain will be moving well to your north so you should remain relatively dry there with high temperatures in dallas going to 75 degrees. a live shot for you out of dallas at this time, it looks good for the time being. cobalt blue skies and things are moving smooth on the freeways. not a bad thing when you have these dry conditions on a day like today. should be great out at the stockyard, pretty nice too heading south toward houston with 77 degrees your expected high. a bit farther north you will run into the rain in kansas city with 51.