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| We begin and go to Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada where the president spoke today on immigration reform. Angela Maria Kelly the Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress joins us to outline what the President Obama proposed today and assess the chances of it being implemented by Congress where House Republicans are bitterly divided on the issue. |
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| Then we look into the so-called “gang of eight” senators who offered their immigration reform proposal yesterday. Since two of the four Republican senators are from Arizona, we look into both the president’s and the senator’s proposals from the perspective of the reality on the ground in Arizona where immigration is a deeply contentious issue. Jeff Biggers, the author of “State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown over the American Dream” joins us. |
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| Then finally we are joined in the studio by the film makers of “The Square” a new feature documentary on the on-going Egyptian revolution that just won the Audience Award at Sundance. The director of “The Square” Jehane Noujaim, who also directed the award-winning film “The Control Room”, and the Producer of “The Square” Karim Amer, will discuss their heroic efforts to bring the inside story of this revolution, that is at the heart of the “Arab Spring”, to the screen. |
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