How will immigration reform impact millions in the US?

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Welcome back everyone I'm Gretchen Carlson for -- in today on studio -- I want to bring up to date on what the speaker of house had just said John Boehner after the president's speech -- to paraphrase here a lot of ideas how to best fix our broken immigration system.

Any solution though should be a bipartisan one and we help the president is careful not to dragged the debate to the left.

And ultimately disrupt the difficult work that's ahead in the house and senate that from the speaker of the house Republican John Boehner.

Meantime if the White House and congress can successfully reach a deal on immigration reform that could have a big impact on the millions of illegal immigrants already here in the United States but.

Analysts point out it's still not be an easy process.

As immigrants and US officials deal with registrations background checks even figuring out how much families would have to pay in taxes and filings.

With me now Michael -- -- an attorney specializing in immigration -- on Homeland Security issues.

He's the president managing director of the global security consulting firm read plan strategies could see you again like on that statement.

Aren't so there are many pieces of this high that people would have to go through a first of -- do you think the people would willingly come forward and say -- -- -- -- Christian that's exactly the key that's the issue we've always dealt with in this you know how -- -- get people to come forward and say yes I'm an illegal.

I'm going to participate in the system because so many of the groups that have come from around the world come from infrastructures where they don't really trust the government it's it's a cultural issue and -- part of the real obstacles we have.

-- the headline here is one illegals to be legal.

But the subtext is the infrastructure immigration is also broken as its one point out.

And a lot of the issues and -- cultural but they're also about finances.

How much money are we willing to put into the system as it currently operates and how do we make it better.

Can you imagine trying to go after -- find eleven million people and then start taxing them and finding them -- needed it sounds like bureaucracy out of control.

I wanna move on the to the next ones just securing the border which does is he meant even more of a hurdle possibly to get past what are your ideas.

But we we've seen -- a tremendous effort.

-- beginning with that Boeing's attempt to do the SPI net and the southern border.

The -- to be kind of disaster because trying to take technology put into the border systems was so expensive we didn't really have the right operating platforms.

And the interconnectivity between Mexico and united -- so crucial to really try to hat to achieve that very result.

But -- moreover we need to do also was once folks -- in the country itself how -- -- work with local law enforcement.

I know firsthand that the local police do not want to become immigration agents.

And is incredibly difficult to say -- police department oh by the way you're gonna check somebody's immigration status when you make any.

Regular automobile stop on the highway again another one of the obstacles that we're gonna have to do we figure out this time.

All right and then of course the employers will have to be responsible for some of this and then one of the key things at least in the senate bipartisan commission is to learn English.

-- you know that.

Well -- it's interesting to say that that after that we them from new York and we are really some two of a bilingual town of multilingual town.

That this is selling parts of the country where Spanish is such a huge part of the.

Operating environments and -- -- -- had to learn English obviously that's a tip of the hat to the conservative groups in the country to say yes we should do it.

But you know it is still brings back the question so then we change all different standards that we have out there from state to state.

Some states have adopted a multi language byline -- bilingual requirements for some tests and different aspects of government do we change all that now go -- go right back to English.

And what type what does that say to the -- and the but you know speaking community that has spent so much time trying to.

A -- their own language has it written to work.

And then after all that they would still go to the back of the line for citizenship a Michael -- Bologna thanks for trying to simplify a very complicated.

Front and have a great day thanks.

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