Summary: TOWN HALL ON REFORM: MODESTO. This edition rebroadcasts segments of a town hall meeting hosted by Congressmen Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) and Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) in Modesto, California. It includes testimonies of residents who participated in the forum, as well as interviews with the hosting congressmen and constituents. Congressman Denham has been in the spotlight of the heated immigration-reform debate, having voted against a bill to give undocumented young immigrants a chance to earn scholarships and grants at state colleges as a state senator and having fully supported Arizona’s anti-immigration law. In recent weeks, Denham, who was recently re-elected to his second term in a district with half of the population Latino or Asian American, has said he is willing to work on immigration reform- Guests: Rep. Jeff Denham, U.S. Congressman, 10th Congressional District of California, Modesto, CA, http://denham.house.gov/ ; Rep. Trey Gowdy, U.S. Congressman, 4th Congressional District of South Carolina, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration in House of Representatives, Modesto, CA, http://gowdy.house.gov ; Linda López, David (unidentified last name), Rosa Elena Solís, Yadira López, and Fidela López, Residents of Congressional District 10 and Participants in Town Hall Meeting, Modesto, CA; Fr. Ramón Bejarano, Parish Priest, St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Modesto, CA; Felipe Sánchez, College Student, Modesto, CA.
