It became amnesty and was probably the most specific reason why the comprehensive immigration legislation went down.

Support for that appears to be eroding, at least with respect to organized labor, and yet it is a critical component to any successful bill.

We need this program that will get a stable and continuing supply of labor.

We are not going to solve the problem piecemeal, and therein is perhaps the first lesson for all of us in this room.

This is not the way it should be. We have farmers in bread lines.

We are going to have to solve it if we are to have the kind of success with the kind of bill that Senator Feinstein noted.

I appreciate the witnesses who are here today to help us work through those challenges.

Well, if I could just interrupt, these are your words, not mine, the 'all crimes, all hazards' approach.

In retrospect, knowing what we know about 9/11, you know, a light bulb would go on in our mind.

One reason I mention this is that yesterday Senators Lieberman, McCain, and I held a hearing in Phoenix about the drug cartel activity coming through Mexico and spilling over into the United States.

it seems to me that, just as a general proposition--let me get your reaction to it--that while guidelines are really important when you are investigating these kinds of activities, you also need to be very careful that you do not get into…