helen aguirre ferre: you're absolutely right about that. it will be interesting to see if jeb bush runs for president, he married a mexican and he did peace corps. he met her in mexico city. it will be interesting to see how that plays. i was fascinated to see how we presented at cpac, the conservative oppac in the republican party. 25 or 30 people walked out but the rest stayed and he got applause. and he had been pro-immigration reform. but to me says something that we have reached a tipping point and things are beginning to change in this country but that needs political well. -- political will. i will tell you something, a couple of weeks ago, what did john boehner do? he passed the homeland security bill. vote up or down and it passed. the world as we know it, continued. and i think that is a lesson that maybe others are going to notice, that the bread continues to be sliced. dahlia walker-huntington: it is interesting that you talked about jeb bush because his name cannot you mentioned in conjunction with that cannot be mentioned in c

helen aguirre ferre: i would also like to say really quickly that this is about national security. when we talk about 9/11 and where we are today, we are talking about issues of great national concerns, and we're acknowledging that we have approximately 11 million people who live in the shadows to say the least. and we say in the shadows because we don't have proper documentation or organized documentation but we all know who they are. they go to school with our kids. sometimes they are neighbors and we are more familiar with who they are than not, but in other communities that may not be the case because here we are very open to immigration. south florida is an exception to the rule to a great degree, but from a perspective on national security why would you not want to have a better sense of who is here, why you are here, what are you doing in a healthy sense? i don't want that big brother type of government. i don't want a government that also is going to be knocking on doors and asking for papers, et cetera. many people are here because of governments like that. that's not what

our first speaker is helen aguirre ferre.erates a weekly series of issues paid i will that issues. i will be brief. -- series of issues. i will be brief. thomesas wenski is an archbishop of mammy. he has worked with cubans and haitians here in miami. our third speaker will be dahlia walker-huntington. she is a counsel to hamilton miller, and -- she is a native of jamaica. our fourth speaker, who is just here. she will be gepsie metellus. a strong advocate of the haitian community in south florida especially women and refugees. helen: i like that this is framed as a conversation because i think we have to few conversations in our country. we shout a lot but we don't talk a lot. i think this is one of those that deserves meaningful conversation. i loved that this is occurring the day after st. patrick's day where we celebrate something so fascinating, the irish tradition that seems so foreign to us here in south florida, yet it's such a central core too many hispanics and african-americans and blacks in recognition of st. patri