The Pentagon is facing the most challenging recruitment environment in 50 years.
I am so deeply honored to introduce today's historic nominee, Ms. Tanya Bradsher.
The GAO noted last year that the Pentagon is facing the most challenging recruitment environment in 50 years.
It would have never happened in the Army. It happens all the time in the Senate, though, unfortunately.
There is an obstacle, Congress. We have not given them a pathway to citizenship.
We have 780,000 DACA recipients, people who are protected under DACA, many of whom want to serve this country.
I believe that the United States has benefited greatly from immigration and the immigrants who arrive both economically and culturally.
We've got to get off dead center and do something.
Everything's connected, my friends. This is a connected Nation, and a connected economy, and we ought to have a sensible policy.
Immigration has made us what we are today.
I do believe there is a will to solve this problem.
We're going to import more food than we export because it's so much cheaper to farm in other places than it is here.
Congress should first and foremost regularize the status of those who are in the United States but lack an immigration status.
For my part, I met with constituents across the State of Illinois, and everywhere traveled I heard the same thing over, and over, and over.
A secure border is necessary, I think, as part of any effort to provide legalization to people already here that are adding value to our cou...
We had four Democrats and four Republicans and we spent months putting together a comprehensive immigration reform bill which passed in the ...
