Those work visa programs can and should be reformed to include a quick path to a green card.

We've got to get off dead center and do something.

I believe, based on my impression of your performance today, that you are in it for the right reasons.

Everything's connected, my friends.

Their first question is, 'When can I go to work? Anything. Tell me, Senator. Anything.'

I believe that the United States has benefited greatly from immigration and the immigrants who arrive both economically and culturally.

Congress should also provide them with a path of permanent residents immediately.

Those are poverty wages.

I've been involved in this immigration debate. My mother was an immigrant to this country--I proudly add--and I think I've made a contribution as her son.

I really believe it's a test. A test for Congress.

We had four Democrats and four Republicans and we spent months putting together a comprehensive immigration reform bill which passed in the floor of the Senate.

For more than three decades, Congress has failed to modernize our Nation's immigration system.

Those work visa programs can and should be reformed to include a quick path to a green card.

The GAO noted last year that the Pentagon is facing the most challenging recruitment environment in 50 years.

There is an obstacle, Congress. We have not given them a pathway to citizenship.

To wait for 30 years and to watch the situation grow as desperate as it has, not only at the border, but with businesses and farms represented here today.

I believe that is the only way to address this.

To wait for 30 years and to watch the situation grow as desperate as it has, not only at the border, but with businesses and farms represented here today.