cesar vargas, welcome to democracy now!ally, you're in new york that you're giving a talk in st. louis. respond to what president trump has now proposed. >> the white house immigration demands are troubling and simply dangerous. what this president is simply seeking every opportunity how to deport, detain, and target more immigrants. and the bottom line is that this administration is essentially seeking assistance in persecuting one group of immigrants in exchange to pledging to protect others. it is asking me to be complicit in supporting my own mother in exchange -- deporting my own mother in exchange for a green card. this demand, this deal is dangerously feeling good immigrant versus that immigrant and getting better educated academically educated immigrants against my own mother, against day laborers, against central american children. this toxic spiel is one we cannot accept because it is essentially targeting immigrants in exchange for just simply, well, we're going to protect other group of immigrants. that is simpl

cesar vargas is the first illegal immigrant lawyer in the state of new york, and he joins us tonight.hanks for coming on. >> thank you for having me, tucker. so this makes, i've got to say, i think normal people are a lot less sympathetic to so-called dreamers, the idea that you are in the country illegally and you are standing in the middle of an intersection preventing citizens from getting to work, you're getting basically violent demands in public when you're not even a citizen. do you see where maybe this is a counterproductive strategy and kind of offensive? >> regardless of whether you agree or not, they have a constitutional right to express their opinion. but to the point of -- >> tucker: no, actually, stop. you're a lawyer. they don't have a constitutional right to block me from getting to work in the middle of a public street. >> you may disagree with it, but this is about actually -- >> tucker: i'm just giving the facts. you don't have the right to do that. >> you absolutely do. >> tucker: then why were they arrested? >> absolutely, obviously they are doing the civil disob

cuando pensamos en activistas se nos viene la mente cÉsar chÁvez o josÉ antonio vargas. de una ciudad. me di cuenta que mi mamÁ y yo a lo mejor no somos seres de los papeles pero somos ciudadanos. calorina, con esto en mente, los 50 y 8 millones de hispanos en este paÍs no podemos dejarlos ganar por la apatÍa. >> muchos amigos me dijeron que no habÍan ido a votar porque tenÍan miedo de que al llegar ahÍ me de porten. reportera: el activismo comienza desde la casa con algo tan sencillo y valioso como darle la mano un vecino. >> en la iglesia, muchas personas aconsejan y nos vamos a la rectorÍa y vamos a llamar a la policÍa ahorita a besos les decimos eso. me dicen padre coman me lo dijiste como consejo? presentadora: segÚn una encuesta del washington post, el 40% de las mujeres dijeron que querÍan involucrarse en mÁs temas cÍvicos durante los prÓximos cuatro aÑos, y tÚ? carolina: si la preguntaba para ti, javi, te vas involucrar mÁs? javi: en instantes, pesar de queuno de los juguetes electrÓnicos estÁ de cumple en apple, vamos a contarle todo en minutos porque las cosas