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Radio host Laura Ingraham and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist engaged in a heated exchange on immigration reform on Ingrahams show Tuesday.

At one point, Ingraham, a Fox News contributor, accused anti-tax advocate Norquist of whining over the discussion on the show. After Ingraham said allowing more immigrant workers to come into the U.S. would be obscene to the American experience, Norquist cut in.

Laura, do I get to talk, too? he asked.

Yes, you do. After you did your soliloquy on an issue that has no relevance to what we were talking about earlier, go ahead, the radio host replied, referring to an earlier discussion about the 2014 midterm elections.

OK, well the soliloquy was, when you guys called me, you said you wanted to talk about the role of the tea party in the elections

Oh my god, youre whining, youre whining. Go ahead, Ingraham said, interjecting.

Norquist appeared to take a veiled shot at Ingraham earlier in the segment, when he criticized anti-immigration advocates who overuse the term amnesty.

One of the reasons why the people for more restrictionist immigration policy dont make more progress when they do is they throw around amnesty in criticizing every single reform that were looking at, he said.

Ingraham, a fierce critic of immigration reform, has often used the phrase in her opposition to the legislation that passed the Senate. On Tuesday, she said that those in favor of reform want millions upon millions of new workers to come in to displace those already beleaguered American workers who are struggling in the economy.

For his part, Norquist said he was in favor of some elements of immigration reform, saying it would benefit the agriculture industry and would help grow the economy. He said he a supporter of the guest worker program implemented during the Eisenhower administration.

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Senate Democrats huddled with immigration advocates at the Capitol on Tuesday to rally them around a unified message: Train all your fire on House Republicans from now until August.

Until now, reform backers have waged a war on two fronts: Urging lawmakers to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul, and pressuring President Barack Obama to use administrative action to ease deportations and alter his enforcement policies. That dual strategy has, at times, competed with one another.

Now, key Senate Democrats still sensing a window of opportunity for immigration reform this year want that focus to be all on the GOP-led House for the next 10 weeks.

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We talked about doing everything we could to get the House to act before August recess, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the hourlong meeting. If they dont act, you know, then the president is going to have no choice but to act on his own. But wed all prefer that there be a legislative solution.

The groups at the Tuesday meeting primarily consisted of Latino and liberal-leaning advocacy organizations that have lobbied for immigration reform, along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Democratic members of the Senate Gang of Eight that wrote the chambers overhaul bill.

Advocates who attended the meeting said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), in particular, made a forceful case for waiting the 72 days until Aug. 1 the last day the Senate is slated to be in session before the monthlong break to try to get legislative reform that would be permanent, rather than an administrative relief that may be temporary.

(Also on POLITICO: States take on immigration)

But advocates also noted to senators that they are pressuring the administration not just to shield immigrants here illegally from deportations, but also to make some changes in the way that the administration carries out immigration enforcement.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who is leading the administrations deportation review, signaled last week that he may be announcing some changes to Secure Communities a program that calls on local law enforcement to give fingerprints of people booked into jails over to federal immigration officials.

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Dear readers, we need to review this First Amendment thing again.

Since former Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Bob Copeland admitted calling President Barack Obama the n-word in public (Copeland resigned under pressure this week), some have claimed that demanding his resignation violates his right to free speech. Thats not how the First Amendment works.

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, the amendment states. The 14th Amendment then applied that restriction to the states as well. Copeland was an elected government official who said something awful (he called President Obama the n-word), stuck by it, and doubled down on it. The Founding Fathers would hardly have objected to the idea that the people should hold elected officials accountable for what they say.

The First Amendment is not a shield to deflect all barbs tossed in response to ones words. It protects against government censorship and punishment, not the reproach of the people. Copeland remains free to call people names as often as he wishes. And the people of Wolfeboro remain free to hold their elected officials to higher standards of behavior.

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