romney has, indeed, met with kris kobach. and so when romney said that he hasn't met with him, that wasn't true. the campaign recently has had to similarly say that mr. romney didn't actually mean what he said during an interview when he said he believed in a health exemption for criminalizing abortion. also when he said that he didn't want to repeal all of obama care. also when he said he had the same red line on iran's nuclear program as president obama had. mr. romney spoke to all of those issues in recent interviews and his campaign had to come out after those interviews and say, he does not actually believe that thing he told you there. what he said, that is not his position. that is not really the thing he believes, even though he said it. if this were your candidate, if this is what happens when you do put him out there, would you put him out in public to try to clean up this mess? or would you keep him under a rock? democratic senator barbara boxer of california joins us next. >>> i mentioned my dad. my dad was born i

joining us is kris kobach, but kansas secretary of state, co-author of numerous anti-illegal immigration state laws, including that of alabama. great to have you here. how would you characterize the accomplishment and conclusion of today's meeting? >> it is a pretty dramatic anda. positive outlook for the state of alabama. in the nine months after the law was signed into law,fter theilli unemployment in alabama went from 9.3% to 7.5%, dropping almost two full points,s. meanwhile from the full u.s.whi economy come if you look at then nation as a whonole, only droppd to 0.7%. alama i it is one of the states that har lower than average unemploymente it encourages illegal aliens to leave the state. u.s. citizens came foraward. many alabamians came off it has been a real success story. interestingly, some of the opponents of immigration enforcement tried to protest.imt the facts are powerful. -ou: how could they possiblyhan- change, you know, the testimony before the commission?in a >> they were trying to shout that some of the speakers and interrupt the proceedings.wi especially when you dea

then the author of the arizona papers please law mitt romney's immigration adviser, chris co-vk kris kobachepublicans in congress remain hostile to it now even though in a galaxy far, far away, the dream act was a republican idea in the first place. the fastest growing bloc of voters which any political strategist can tell you in his or her sleep. it's the reason why they think texas is going to be a swing state as early as 2016. and to the extent that republicans want to woo those voters now in 2012, they are not trying to do it on policy. they are trying to do it on identity politics alone. it is a big gamble for them, actually, as a party. so far it is paying off in very, very, very, very, very tiny poll numbers. democrats get their chance to try to claw those numbers back this upcoming week. joining us now is victoria soto, a visiting scholar at the university of texas-austin and a contributor to nbc latino. professor, thanks very much for your time tonight. it's good to have you here. >> thanks. it's good to be here. >> kind of soft focus, identity politics stuff like spotlighting lots

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kris kobach secretary of state.sure. >> you know the criticisms now that most of this law has been struck down controversial portion of course is being upheld that racial profiling will unfold as a result of this. just to clarify one part. only three provisions were struck down. the law has about 10 provisions in it. only a subpart of the law went to the supreme court. but to your question about racial profiling. there is a common misconception out there that this law creates some kind of new procedure. all that this portion of the law does is make mandatory what was once discretionary. it just says previously police officers had the discretion to decide whether they wanted to pick up the phone in their patrol car and call ice to do a status check on a particular person. now it's mandatory if they have reasonable suspicion. and, so, to give you an idea of how much this has already been going on. every year there have been over a million of these status checks by federal, state and local law enforcement officers. it'