Congress should first and foremost regularize the status of those who are in the United States but lack an immigration status.
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.
It would have never happened in the Army. It happens all the time in the Senate, though, unfortunately.
Those work visa programs can and should be reformed to include a quick path to a green card.
I am so deeply honored to introduce today's historic nominee, Ms. Tanya Bradsher, who is nominated to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Depart...
I want to say that I have no prejudice against growers and farmers at all.
Everything's connected, my friends. This is a connected Nation, and a connected economy, and we ought to have a sensible policy.
That prevents them from being able to integrate and participate fully in American economic and political life.
I do believe there is a will to solve this problem.
We had four Democrats and four Republicans and we spent months putting together a comprehensive immigration reform bill which passed in the ...
immigration reform is the most immediate and meaningful step we could take today to resolve our shortage of workers.
I think we have to be honest and realistic about it.
Immigration has made us what we are today.
Their first question is, 'When can I go to work? Anything. Tell me, Senator. Anything.'
We've got to get off dead center and do something.
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...
If we don't reform our agricultural system, food prices are going to spike in this country.
It doesn't speak well for our country that that would be happening.
