pablo alvarado speaking to us from los angeles and david leopold from cleveland. will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] our democracy now! studios. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. our guests are pablo alvarado, director of the national day laborers organizing network and .avid leopold >> pablo, i want to follow-up on what we discussed before the break on where we go from here. commerce may get your is a chicago put out a statement a few days ago my basically warning his colleagues that they limited amount of time to act on immigration reform or the president would act himself. that makes me get a sense that the president has already signaled to the terrace and other leaders he will take some kind of inaction -- to luis gutierrez and other leaders he will take some kind of action. what about the parents of the dreamers already covered by the act, some kind of a compromise measure of extending legalization but not -- not legalization, but extending called to deportations but not a full extens

. >> i'm joined by david leopold, former president of the lawyers association, and a reform advocate. good to see you. you heard the president saying there's only so much that he could do, congress need to take action. congressman of colorado, a democrat, told the washington "examiner", that there are fixes in the next few weeks, and broader policy changes next year. what do you think the white house will do without having congress on board? >> the president is right. what he's talking about is a permanent fix, and the only people that can give the united states a permanent f to the broken immigration system is congress, and now that would be the republican-controlled house. that is a point well taken. there's plenty of things that can be done while we wait for congress to do its job. they can expand the deferred action program, the program that keeps the dreamers from being deported. it can be expanded to the parents and people who might qualify, undocumented people who would qualify under the various proposals for imagreeings reform that we have seen in congress. >> doesn't that ris