ending the third time -- >> what happens when you get caught, reyna grande? >> well, when we got caught we got loaded up into a van with everyone else who got caught, and then were taken to the border patrol offices. and i don't have a whole lot because we were children, you know, we weren't really like talk to by border patrol. they would take my father into an office to talk to him. and i were remember just waiting for him in the hallway, and the border patrol people were very nice to us, and i remember they offered to get us a soda. so their broadest sodas and we were drinking our soda, waking for our debt. so it was -- waiting for a dead. we were treated very kindly by the border patrol but at the same time, knowing that they were keeping us from crossing and funding able to have a chance at having our father back in our lives. >> reyna grande, the third time. >> the third time we crossed the border was very scary because my father decided to try in the dead of night, hoping that the darkness would protect us and help us across. and he was right. it was p

. >> reyna grande, do you think your experience coming across the border, growing up the we did, as an illegal immigrant, is it a common experience or do you think? >> it's definitely very common, especially, i mean like my experience of being a child left behind and separate it from my parents, and then being brought here to the u.s. as a child by my parents, it's very common. i mean, when i was researching this topic, i learned that 80% of the latin american children in u.s. schools get separated from a parent in the process of migration. so i mean, that's a whole lot of kids that are being separated from parents, who are coming here, you know, as undocumented child immigrants. so definitely my experience is not unique, but not, there's not a whole lot of awareness, you know, or when people talk about immigration, very seldom do they consider, you know, that other side of immigration, which is the children who get left behind who later come to the u.s. to be reunited with her parents. and we don't talk about how immigration breaks up families and how, you know, it takes a toll on the

reyna grande, tell us the life story. >> guest: the life story? him in the kerosene story?>> host: you went to school needed a sanitation on you. >> guest: okay, okay. when i came to elementary in fifth grade, one day the nurse showed up in the teachers came to inspect other kids for life. i was so shocked because i could understand is that it happened in mexico because all of us had lice. you know, we were all poor kids coming to school barefoot and dirty and we all had lice. but in l.a., i just didn't expect there to be lice. and for a second there, i thought maybe they across the border illegally like i had. and i got inspect it and it turned out that i had lice and i was so afraid to go home and tell that to my dad because i didn't want him to think that i was still the dirty little girl he left behind in mexico. i thought he was going to beat me as well because that was his favorite way of disciplining us. it turned out my father was not angry at me and he didn't blame me and he didn't beat me. it was a very beautiful moments because he took me out to the yard and he l

big dreams, and unfortunately, he had a lot of issues that he was dealing with as well. >> host: reyna grande"the distance between us" the book, and tim from california, you're the first caller. hi, tim? >> caller: this is tim johnson in palm desert. reyna when we speak of hispanic politics or hispanic culture in general, of course, the elephant in the living room is the age-old social and economic status that characterized his spannic culture with the legions of those at the bottom and a few landing patrons at the top. how do you see this playing out in hispanic politics of our day? >> guest: you know, i think that we're living in a point right now here in the country where people with becoming more aware of the latino presence, and the importance steps that latinos are playing right now, especially in politics, you know, the latino vote very important in getting obama re-elected, and now, you know, the event that the republican party, it seems, that they really do need to change their thinking with latinos, and the issue important to us like immigration. i am very excited about, you know, t

the miami but fair -- the miami book fair international, featured authors include bill o'reilly, reyna grandejoan walsh, and christopher hitchens. live coverage begins saturday at 10:00 eastern and sunday at noon on "book tv." >> "washington journal" continues. host: ron paul men from texas, welcome and thank you for being here. you are facing retirement. this is the last few weeks of your term facing the people of texas. the fiscal cliff is a big issue on the agenda in the winning weeks of congress. what do you want to see? caller: there is lots that i want to happen. i have been here for 30 years and nothing has happened. i only have two weeks left. i do not think much will happen. the real solutions are not even discussed. what they do a denture january, they will get some type of an agreement that they will solve their problems later. it will appease a few people. i do not think a major calamity is going to happen in january. it will do something very temporary. it is sort of like when we hear the news about the problems and greece. how many solutions have they had. the have probably had

and we have neil barofsky letter for a call-in, followed by colin with a woman named reyna grande. >> that will all be on our program tomorrow, live from the miami book fair. so that's what we have for you. and we appreciate your watching us today, and we will see tomorrow live from miami. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> next on booktv, greg lukianoff argues that america's university and college campuses stifle free speech and discourage students from holding unpopular views. the author contends that this and violent as increase the country's political fissures and decrease civil discourse. it's about 45 minutes. >> thanks so much for having me. i was actually at the first conference. we had randy barnett speaking over there and it was exciting to be here for the inauguration of students for liberty as a formal organization. so i'm just going to start a little bit of a personal. i'm having a big month right now and just wanted to let you, some of your friends among and some of you will be, i just got married on the 12th. [applause] >> i have a boo

. >> featured authors include bill oreilly, reyna grande, joane walsh, and christopher hitchens. join us on line with the exclusive author chats on facebook with hanna rosin and david maraniss on ook tv. now, a forum on women and the 2012 election. this is a little less than one hour and a half. >> i realize we are standing room only, which is great. my name is stephanie schriock. [applause] i am the president of emily's list. thank you on behalf of emily's list for joining us this morning. we're so excited to be here. we won. [applause] we won across the board. it was an historic night. we're glad to bring folks together today to share in that celebration. we want to talk about what we learned through this election as we move forward. this election was really about women. it was about women voters and it was about women candidates and women leaders. that is an incredible place for all of us. we will have a few special guests here today and then we will sit down with an incredible group of women leaders to talk about research and other things we saw regarding women voters. just t

featured authors include reyna grande, joahn walsh, and christopher hitchens. live coverage saturday 10:00 eastern and sunday afternoon. >> david patraeus testified before a closed hearing on the investigation concerning the consulate attack. following the hearing committee members spoke to reporters. >> so far seven hours of hearings, we have spent the last two hours with former director patraeus. he laid out his view, which was very much appreciated. he answered a large number of questions. we still have two additional hearings. hopefully the preparations of the findings and a public hearing. >> big two this was a terrorist attack within 24 hours? >> i will not comment now. we will most likely comment on those things in our final report. i think we have a ways to go yet. i think they are trying to be very careful and cautious. >> [indiscernible] >> since you asked that question -- the roles of our committee are you cannot use something that you learned in a classified session. i can give you my assessment based on questions, my investigation, that what susan