you are the last call for daniel garza. caller: i would like to know -- i am african-american, a woman -- hello? host: we are listening. caller: in north carolina, governor mccrory, which is a republican, has passed a bill this week that latinos have to have ids, not government ideas, theing that goes through system, but picture ids. every latino here in north carolina has to have that. they were on tv last night crying and upset because this id can actually get them deported. some of them said, i have my papers, i'm waiting to get my visa, but they still passed the law. every latino has to have an id -- some of them are upset, afraid. they even, i saw on the news last night, they had 8-10 people chained together in the street, demanding that the governor change that. the latinosconvince here in north carolina, hard workers, that they should vote for republicans went republicans are hurting them? host: we got it. policy should induce people to thrive, should reward people for their hard work. public policy should allow peop

you are the last call for daniel garza.aller: i would like to know -- i am african-american, a woman -- hello? host: we are listening. caller: in north carolina, governor mccrory, which is a republican, has passed a bill this week that latinos have to have ids, not government ideas, theing that goes through system, but picture ids. every latino here in north carolina has to have that. they were on tv last night crying and upset because this id can actually get them deported. some of them said, i have my papers, i'm waiting to get my visa, but they still passed the law. every latino has to have an id -- some of them are upset, afraid. they even, i saw on the news last night, they had 8-10 people chained together in the street, demanding that the governor change that. the latinosconvince here in north carolina, hard workers, that they should vote for republicans went republicans are hurting them? host: we got it. policy should induce people to thrive, should reward people for their hard work. public policy should allow people

daniel garza is our guest, and jesus is calling in from bidford be, maine. , jesus. >> caller: hi. my question is for mr. garza. let me -- >> host: sorry about that. we're going to move on to don in vallejo, california. don, you're on the washington journal. please go ahead. >> caller: yes, hey, thanks for c-span, number one. i'm looking at this guy garza. you're supposed to be representing the mexicans, so-called mexicans here in america, but don't you, aren't you part of the spanish conquest? aren't you one of the ones who took the indians and turned them into mexicans and taught them how to speak spanish and put them in slavery? you know, how can you represent the mexicans when you're not even a mexican? you're a white man, okay? latino, that's not mexican. that's a white man. okay? >> host: got the point, don, thank you. any response to that, mr. garza? >> guest: well, look, i think if we're going to indict this generation for the sins of the past generations, i think we're all in trouble. [laughter] all we can do is, you know, reflect on who we are as in

host: daniel garza was part of the george w. bush administration and served as deputy director in the office of the secretary of interior. tulsa, oklahoma, go ahead. the leading republican candidates for president, first-generation immigrant -- sons of immigrants. it will be interesting to see how the latin american community, which is very conservative, as you have indicated, and going up against the hillary clinton and talk about positions. hillary clinton is a supporter of planned parenthood selling baby parts. many other issues that will go right down the line and it will be interesting to see how this conservative hard-working group -- every latino eye now is very hard-working, very family oriented, very conservative in their philosophy, and yet they are classed and convinced to be by the spending of money for social services. that's not really something that will hold long-term if they start talking about the issues. i look forward to this upcoming election and seeing if this latin american immunity will --lly support thei

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. >> on the next "washington journal" daniel garza, executive officer of the libra party. and secretary treasurer of the afl-cio discusses issues of women working in low-wage jobs. "washington journal" is live with your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> after that, nato supreme allied commander will update reporters on operations at u.s./european command at the pentagon's daily press briefing. watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> combatting isis, the closing of guantanamo bay and the paul ryan election to house speaker were the focus of today's white house briefing with press secretary josh earnest. >> good afternoon, everybody. nice to see you all. >> two down. >> apologize for the delay in getting started. >> two more to go. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> we'll meet again. i'll never pass up an opportunity do that. just enjoy a little sip here. [ laughter ] >> rub it in. rub it in. >> here we go. now that we have that out of the way. we can go straight to your questions. >> i wanted to ask about

. >> daniel says he was a little shaken up but not close enough to the flames to get hurt. >> superintendent karen garza released a statement saying fcps is truly like a family and as such we are all deeply concerned about what happened today. i know this incident has affected the woodson community. as a district, we will provide as much support and assistance for students, staff members and families as needed. >>> check it out. any national weather service in south texas got a big unexpected jolt today at the worst possible times. they were covering flash floods when lightning struck their doppler radar. and crews are working overtime to save people from high waters in that area. is that storm coming our way this weekend? >> that storm is coming our way. it is an extremely nasty situation. just west of austin saw nearly 16 inches of rain earlier this morning and under the gun again. severe thunderstorm watches and flashflood warnings and flashflood watches for the entire eastern portion of texas. to the right of you, it shows the storm moving our way and the good news it will fall apart before it gets