thank you both for joining us today let me start with you lorella you know as we've been watching things unfold at the border but also watching the power. the ticks of the immigration debate play out in washington d.c. and i'm interested in what you would like this see in terms of rhetoric from president biden becoming real action on reforming immigration what would be the key pieces that would help you have confidence that this is ministration is going to be different than those who have come before it. such a good question steve because i think rhetoric is just the beginning of really shifting and shifting a story and telling the story about who we are and what we stand for as a country and what are the kind of policies that we're going to advance but here the biden administration really has an opportunity to deliver they have looked at latino voters and immigrant voters them being democrats for decades and promised to deliver on a path to citizenship for $11000000.00 what we're looking for and what would be a definitional moment for this administration and define early success and com

use to find out we're talking to lorella priorly whose family came to the united states from peru when she was just a child and lived as an undocumented immigrant for years and years now she's fighting for immigrants as co-president of community change a national organization working for social justice and professor francisco gonzales who teaches about the politics and economics of latin america at the johns hopkins university here in washington d.c. thank you both for joining us today let me start with you lorella you know as we've been watching things unfold at the border but also watching the politics of the immigration debate play out in washington d.c. i'm interested in what you would like to see in terms of rhetoric from president biden becoming real action on reforming immigration what would be the key pieces that would help you have confidence that this is ministration is going to be different than those who have come before it. such a good question steve because i think rhetoric is just the beginning of really shifting and shifting a story and telling the story about who we ar

well i spoke with lorella revive a member of the cuba venezuela solitaire to committee she thinks that is unlikely to be any major policy shift on to keep us. well it certainly is and 2 the leadership officially of you know fidel roll and other leaders of what they call the generation of the centenarian those who were involved in 1953 in the struggle against. but as davis explained over and over it is a revolution a continuation and that the new leadership with me again the afghan l. the president of cuba now becoming the 1st secretary of the communist party of cuba it is in an orderly organized and politically decided manner it's not a surprise but it is news of this revelation of the attempt on roll castro in 160 certainly there must have been others because the us knew that role was a leader of the struggle for the for the revolution and was considered to be a. successor if anything happened to fidel. more stories coming few and just moments quite yet. when the central bank or claim knows that this is a big the most crime when they print money and yet we don't see that on the ground