but he's the man that thread charge to recall russell pierce, russell pierce, the author of 1070, this is the man that led the charge to recall russell and vote him out of office. thank you, darryl. and marshall phipps is our moderator. i'd like for you folks to get with the program. thank you. >> thanks so much, norm, thanks so much, todd. thanks to everyone who has worked to convene this important discussion and of course to congressman passtor for hosting. while political prowess prevented congressional from tackling the immigration system it's an overhaul overdue and one many of us have been fighting for many years to achieve. the pressures of a large undocumented population continue to be foisted on state and local governments and communities. opponents of immigration reform have opponents such as state senator russell pierce that norm was mentioning have persuaded some local elected officials to pursue what is i think a deeply misguided strategy that they call attrition through enforcement. the idea of that is to make life so unbearable, so difficult and harsh for undocumented im

, architect behind the arizona law that said russell pierce saying that mitt romney's immigration to his. and a pokesperson for the romney campaign. can you go down the list of folks that are clear on what romney's position is. that he himself stated. i think they are trying, again, to dot etch-a-sketch and reposition him and realign him to go after the latino vote. as i think as richard said and you said, reverend, it is too late. we have too much documentation to prove otherwise. >> going to need that etcha stech. >> let me have it. >> plan b is something in february that romney denounced. let me play for you willard on plan b. >> the same administration said that churches, and the institutiones this run, such as schools and let's say adoption agencies, hospitals, that they have to provide for their employees free of charge. contraceptives, morning after pills. and other words abortive pills and the like, at no cost. >> now, richard, he is squarely against to against it, but now we find out he is attending a $50,000 a plate fund-raiser next week with plan b maker phil frost whos

dominated, two thirds republican, republican governor, 108 arizona style bills or you could call them russell pierce bills, proposed in texas, with todd lanford's help we motivated our legislature to listen and think and enter meaningful dialogue. we brought in business men and todd of course displayed arizona as a test tube and showed us why the laws don't work. and so in texas we have a great deal of -- we give the credit, i'm going to tell you this, to todd lanford in the state of arizona, god bless you for coming. i feel like you helped texas dodge the bullet. todd lanford. >> thanks, mark. i guess i got to give you another $5 now. right. good morning on behalf of arizona employers for immigration reform i want to welcome you to today's congressional immigration solutions conference. this is the sixth in a series of conferences that are intended to educate the public about the impact, state level immigration laws have in and are having on those places that passed them and to suggest alternative solutions that can better address the real problems without the damaging consequences. today you're go

russell pierce is not a bigot nor a racist. i know him. he ras thrust into a position he willingly accepted and is unapologetic for his vociferous defense of laws he has authored and i won't defend or apologies for him, he's more than capable of doing it him, but e stepping into an area where the frost goal refused to lead we have what we have. i must also touch on one last thing, too. the insinuation immigration policy in arizona was being promote ed in return for policy that was "anti-women or anti-gay," that's not just irresponsible, it's false and lose chris. now, my view on immigration in the united states and illegal immigration is formed from several different areas of experience. first it had to do with my role as a staff officer with the 3rd army calvary stationed in texas and active duty soldiers to assist on a reservation which straddles arizona and mexico to help interdict the smuggling of drugs and informed by my role as a line prosecutor in prosecuting felony duis in maricopa county until the passage of a constitutional amend

campaign that romney has run, where now he has a position on immigration that is the same as russe russell pierce and sheriff arpaio where john mccain was four years ago, that he would be pushed further to the right and probably away from any bipartisanship, if he were president. >> there might be one area in which gridlock disappears, and that's with what could be a megareconciliation bim that is the provision under the budget law that allows a simple majority in the senate to -- to approve such a megabill, and in it could be a whole host of tax cuts, changes in social security, medicare, medicaid, a range of things. that's the pledge. that's part of the ryan budget, and, i mean, the public ought to be prepared for that. they may yearn for gridlock if they don't like what's included in that package. >> joe from twitter asks, think about it as we take the last call. what do you guys suggest we do? think about that a second. caller from atlanta, georgia. we're almost out of time. go ahead. >> caller: yes, sir. i'll be quick. the problem in washington is people are just too hard-headed. they won't

russell pierce 1070. this was the man that read the charge to recall russell and vote him out of office. thank you, darryl. and marshall phipps, do you want to be our moderator? he is with the director of immigration policy. i would like you folks to get with the program, thank you. >> thanks so much norm. everyone who is worked in into in the to convene this discussion and congressmen pasteur for hosting. wild political prowess has prevented congress from tackling an overhaul of the immigration system, it's an overhaul that has been pointed out that is long overdue and one that many of us have been trying for many years to achieve. the pressures of a large undocumented population continued to be foisted on state and local governments and communities. opponents of immigration reform have opponents such as russell pierce that norm was just mentioning have persuaded local elected officials to pursue what is i think a deeply misguided strategy that they call attrition through enforcement. the idea that is to

. >> he was a relative of russell pierce.rce a surrogate father who enlightened him and spent time together at the cabin, and were around each other quite a bit. >> here is john fugelsang on another phone line. >> at&t has more dropouts than the new york public school system. >> we surmised january brewer has something to do with it. >> i think so. i'm raising money for sun block for her. >> she kind of looks like tan mom. >> mitt romney just apologized for the jet-eye's excessive regulations. >> thank you [ laughter ] >> john fugelsang as a man that is nearly translucent that's a wonderful thing to do. >> she has done so much for the state, so i'm just giving back. jesus came here, but he was brown-skinned and had no papers so she shipped him off to juarez. >> it's a dry hate. [ whacky comedy music ] >> dave from boston writes us steph -- [ somber music ] >> after seeing your fantastic show in boston last year, my partner and i went to new york city for a long weekend. we were in the coffee shop ahead of was was the sexy lib

>> you need to take it from russell pierce who was the who sponsored that bill or chris trobach who willhored that bill. pierce said that romney's policies are identical. tobach who the is tied to anti- anti-immigrant hate groups: ol martin luther king day. during the primary romney was sending a messages loud and clear and i understand why he may witch he had not' sent that message now that he is in the general election. you don't get to take it back. you know, dispute what romney may think, your path isn't on an etch-a-sketch. he can't shake them away. >> that's true about every issue. i think what the r and c really meant is mitt romney is trying to decide how much he can wiggle on this issue without alienating the right-wingers that he won in the primary by being as extreme as he could on immigration. right? >> what he has done. >> go ahead. yeah. i think that's exactly right. romney has a fairly difficult map going into november. if you go back to 2000, 2004, all george bush really needs to do is hold ohio and florida because that was gore and terri's path to victory. they had to ta