jessica vaughn, your response? >> well, this is the primary argument that's been used really both on the left and right against the federal government's issue here. they are saying the tenth amendment specifically prohibits the federal government from commandeering state and local resources to do its work. but that's not really what's happening with immigration enforcement and that argument was rejected in this 1996 lawsuit that i mentioned before that new york city brought. the federal government is not forcing local governments to do something on its behalf. what they are seeking is, and what the federal law requires is that state and local governments cannot prohibit police officers or local government officials or in the case of california, private employers from cooperating with the feds in a lawful manner. and so that's really key to this. the government is also saying that california cannot substitute its judgment or implement an immigration policy that's different than the federal government has and that ve

and justice department lawsuit against california regarding sanctuary laws with jessica vaughn for center of immigration studies. and be sure to washington washington journal each sunday for special series 1968, america in turmoil, starting march 18. we look back 507 years to that turbulent time including the vietnam war and presidential election. >>> arlington national cemetery kathryn carry and veteran service organization leaders testified to before a house armed services subcommittee on the future of arlington national cemetery. this is just over an hour. >> i want to welcome everyone to this morning's military personnel subcommittee hearing. the purpose of today's hearing is to receive testimony from stakeholders and department officials on the future of arlington national cemetery. this iconic resting place for generations of brave men and women who have served their count country is truly a national treasure. during 153 year history, more than 400,000 people have been in turred or interned at the cemetery. unfortunate the cemetery is rapidly running out of space. if nothing is done

. >> judge jeanine: here now with reaction from the center for immigration studies jessica vaughn, immigrationney francisco hernandez and former deputy assistant to the president and fox news national security strategist sebastian gorka. all right. good evening, all. i'm going to start with you, jessica. >> thank you, your honor. >> judge jeanine: is it a protection of citizens to prevent ice agents from doing their job for which they have legal authority? >> well, no. citizens want our immigration laws enforced. and isis targets, as you mentioned are felons. criminals, gang members, people who have been deported before. people who have been immigration violaters multiple times. and they were going after the criminals. ice would much rather arrest them in the jails but cities like oakland prevent ice from doing that. they tell the law enforcement agencies they can't cooperate and that's why these criminals are on the street to begin with. because ice would have arrested them earlier if they could. and now they have got to go out into the community to do so and. >> judge jeanine: so it's more d

. >> judge jeanine: here now with reaction from the center for immigration studies jessica vaughn, immigrationney francisco hernandez and former deputy assistant to the president and fox news national security strategist sebastian gorka. all right. good evening, all. i'm going to start with you, jessica. >> thank you, your honor. >> judge jeanine: is it a protection of citizens to prevent ice agents from doing their job for which they have legal authority? >> well, no. citizens want our immigration laws enforced. and isis targets, as you mentioned are felons. criminals, gang members, people who have been deported before. people who have been immigration violaters multiple times. and they were going after the criminals. ice would much rather arrest them in the jails but cities like oakland prevent ice from doing that. they tell the law enforcement agencies they can't cooperate and that's why these criminals are on the street to begin with. because ice would have arrested them earlier if they could. and now they have got to go out into the community to do so and. >> judge jeanine: so it's more d

and justice department lawsuit against california regarding sanctuary laws with jessica vaughn for center of immigration studies. and be sure to washington washington journal each sunday for special series 1968, america in turmoil, starting march 18. we look back 507 years to that turbulent time including the vietnam war and presidential election. >>> arlington national cemetery kathryn carry and veteran service organization

. >>> we are back joining us this morning from west newton, massachusetts, jessica vaughn, policy studies director for the center for immigration studies. miss vaughn, what is your group and your stance on immigration? >> we are a research institute that studies the effects of immigration on american society, and we study immigration policy and demographics and labor market and fiscal costs, really refugees, the whole waterfront of immigration policy from the standpoint of the national interests and trying to promote policies that work for our country and for americans rather than for special interests. >> what does that mean, then? are you conservative, libertarian, progressive? how would you define it? >> the immigration issue doesn't really fall into the usual idealogical categories. we are nonpartisan and we have conservatives and liberals on our staff. what our motivation is is to find an immigration policy that works for the country and our research has shown that immigration levels right now are too high, too skewed toward immigrants that are going to struggle to be self-sufficient