. >> joining us as part of our immigration coverage is maria theresa kumar that was an incredible piecely gives us a real idea as we think about as we go our daily lives, about who is really a part of our daily lives, our nbc news first street picked up on this survey by pew research that dispels the stereotype that all undocumented immigrants are latino or mexican, to be more exact. as we move forward in this debate over immigration reform, what do you see as the not so obvious dangers of perpetuating the stereotypes out there? >> well, i think one of the dangers is that if we don't have a path to legalization, thomas, we're basically going to have a group of second-class citizens within our borders. and we don't want that. the nbc poll that came out today basically said that overwhelmingly latinos, latino voters favored a pathway to citizenship. the underlying reason is not do we have friends and family that may be undocumented. but if we don't provide that, we'll always be asked if we're americans. currently right now one out of every three americans believe that latinos are undocume

and maria theresa kumar. k for itself and do you think is strengthens the hands of the people assembling at the capitol for them to do their job? >> once again the american people is ahead of where they electors are and i think that's why it's so promising what i'm hearing from folks is that it looks like they're going to drop a bill either monday or tuesday and keep an open review on the senate side and the idea is to get as many republicans onboard as soon as possible on the senate side so they can go with the bill they passed between 70 and 75 votes so when it hits the o house it's going to be harder for the extreme right of the republican party to break up the bill. >> victoria, there's a lot of opposition to what the american people support. nbc's michael isikoff has a new report out today about the network of anti-immigrant groups plotting against immigration reform. groups like numbers usa, fair, the center for immigration studies. they were founded by an obscure petition from michigan. he's written tha

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