the top priority of this Committee is border security and looking at our immigration law
President Obama did poison the well.
I think there is a lot of agreement that we are not going to deport 11-12 million people. We are not.
we would have had to... obtain effective control of the border, 90 percent.
This ought to be a no-brainer.
the guest worker programs that were set up in the Senate bill were meager.
I am pleased to see the Senate is back at it and perhaps we can get some action in the House.
In past bills, I think the McCain-Kennedy bill, we actually had a system by which the undocumented would move through th...
We are in a period of gridlock and not moving on anything, except perhaps border security.
We always thought the House should do its own thing and figure out how to do it.
Did not the Congressional Budget Office actually conclude that eliminating these programs would be a fiscal negative?
I believe that the deferred action programs that we are discussing today constitute an important step in trying to addre...
We must act on a comprehensive, permanent reform to our immigration laws.
I am frustrated by my colleagues who have chosen to play politics as we consider the Homeland Security Department's fund...
this really, from my standpoint, is the top priority of this Committee
What I would really like to explore is...are those executive actions going to help the problem or is it going to exacerb...
That is not good for them. That is not good for this country.
We would not be discussing DHS funding today had President Obama not taken the unilateral executive action.
