mr. vegas. >> vargas actually. >> caller: mr. vargas, yes, good morning. >> yes. >> caller: i have a question. you speak of latinos. are you speaking of those who are american citizens, or are you speaking of those who are not american citizens or exactly how is -- in my opinion you're separating them from being americans because the caller from florida hit it right on the head. it's like america and we've got to stick together so if you're an american, are you speaking in terms of an american latino or, i mean, that's pretty much my question? >> sure. when i speak about latinos i'm speaking about the 55.5 million residents of this country, citizens, some of them are immigrants, who are contributing to our economy, contributing to our society and want to live the american dream. what we want to do at naleo is we want to help them succeed. we want to help them integrate into society, make sure they are contributing members our economy and our democracy because that will make our nation stronger. >> to the integration, we go back to

mr. vegas. host: vargas, actually. caller: mr. vargas, good morning. you speak up latinos.re american citizens, or those who are not american citizens who wish to be? how is that -- in my opinion, you are separating us from being american. the fellow from florida hit it on the head. it is america, and we have to stick together. are you speaking in terms of an american and latino, or -- that is pretty much my question. guest: sure. i am speaking of the millions of residents of this country, at citizens, some of them immigrants, who are contributing to our country and society and want to live the american dream. what we want to do is we want to help them succeed, we want to help them integrate into society, make sure they are contributing members of our economy and democracy. that will make our nation as strong. host: integration -- we go back to puerto rico one more time. this is mr. santorum saying there should be english only before they have a statehood. guest: mr. santorum needs to do his homework, because english is the official language of puerto rico. it was an insult

mr. vegas. host: vargas, actually. caller: mr. vargas, good morning. you speak up latinos. are you speaking of those who are american citizens, or those who are not american citizens who wish to be? how is that -- in my opinion, you are separating us from being american. the fellow from florida hit it on the head. it is america, and we have to stick together. are you speaking in terms of an american and latino, or -- that is pretty much my question. guest: sure. i am speaking of the millions of residents of this country, at citizens, some of them immigrants, who are contributing to our country and society and want to live the american dream. what we want to do is we want to help them succeed, we want to help them integrate into society, make sure they are contributing members of our economy and democracy. that will make our nation as strong. host: integration -- we go back to puerto rico one more time. this is mr. santorum saying there should be english only before they have a statehood. guest: mr. santorum needs to do his homework, because english is the official language

mr. vargas, i've been married to a green card holder for 30 years, and we went through the process and expense and that and got here legally, actually lived in his country for a while, a european country. i'm curious, we've mentioned in the past on this program, a woman's dilemma if she's undocumented in this country and wants to report domestic violence against her, then she has to worry about, you know, reporting a crime, and she herself is participating in a crime, a federal crime, if she she is here illegally, and i'm curious how would your organization support -- what specifics would you have about redoing immigration in this country and would you be in favor of making marc-andre the e-verify system for employment. thanks so much. >> well, the e-verify system is an imprecise data set and that's one of the problems people have with it because people are being unfairly denied the opportunity to work because of the imprecise nature of e-verify and as far as the immigration system. it's a broken system. we need to fix it and need to make sure that people are able to immigrate to this country

mr. vargas, and thank you for taking my call. i just have a general comment, and i want your observation. a lot of the people in the republican candidates now are running away from mr. bush which actually was a wartime president and had a lot to do with what was on his plate, but when he got in before 9/11 the first thing he did was reach out to mexico, and he tried to start rational immigration policy, e-verify and some kind of semi-and i know this is a bad word, amnesty, and some sort of rational policy of how workers from mexico could come up and work in our economy and we could know who they were, and they could pay a fair amount of tax es and then 9/11 started, and he to make a shift because we had to respond to this attack which is a pearl harbor type of event that happened. i would like you to make a comment on that. thank you very much for taking my call. >> well, i think you're absolutely right. the fact is before 9/11 the president stood up and said that the most important relationship

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mr. white's family, for ryan white. we think the most important thing is his full recovery now. >> vargas will be sentenced on march 21st. >>> jury selection is continuing today in the domestic violence trial against san francisco sheriff ross mirkirimi. finding an impartial jury is proving to be quite difficult. 150 potential jurors are being added to the jury pool today. already more than 200 potential jurors have been dismissed in the last few days. a judge has now considering a request by ross mirkirimi's attorney to move the trial out of san francisco. >>> one of the most vocal critics of oakland mayor jean quan says he is willing to challenge her in a potential recall election. city councilman ignaci occasion dela forks e,nte says he will challenge her if it makes it to the ballot. recall organizers have until may 14th to gathert 20,000 signatures needed to qualify a recall for the november ballot. >>> israeli president shimon peres is wrapping up his visit to the bay area today. he opened a conference an hour ago with some high-tech industry he leaders in silicon valley. we're live from the san francisco design c

mr. white's family, for ryan white. and i hope this ends, soon. >> vargas family says he has no recollection of the hit and run. his attorney admits vargas was binge drinking just before the he accident. >> the city of oakland filed a suit against a man among a group of occupy protestors causing havoc around city hall during a demonstration. the lawsuit claims he used a metal folding chair to smash out several windows and the glass door to a police department building. >> this not about to turn protestors just about to turn vandalism. to deter people trying to destroy public buildings in oakland. >> this asks for 6600ses today pay for repairs and punitive damages. the city attorney plans to present more civil suits against protestor that's vandalize public property. >> jean kwan gets her way, three city professional sports teams won't lant to leave oakland. city leaders unveiled what they're calling coliseum city today. abc 7's nick smith has the stri coliseum city is a game changer and that oakland is playing to win. >> oakland city council approved spendi

mr. white's family. for ryan white. >> reporter: and again another look at the video of vargas' truck hitting the cab. the formal sentencing is for march 21. prosecutors say ryan white is temporarily back in school but is still recovering from his injuries, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 action news. >>> and the process of picking a jury today continued today against the sheriff, mirkarimi. 100 people came in to fill out questionnaires of potential jurors, after 200 of them were dismissed over the weekend. prosecutors are still fighting with the wife over video showing bruises on her arm, and whether that can be used as evidence. >>> and police investigating a murder-suicide case in which a mother is believed to have killed her adult son. rita williams has more on what drove the mother to the breaking point, and why they say this didn't have to happen. >> reporter: gasia mikaelian, police say what happened to this recently updated home just off highway 85 was a tragedy. >> the mother shot the 22-year- old son, and then shot herself. >> reporter: authorities say lester hodgins came home from his job a