Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, this is an anti-immigrant bill. It slashes legal immigration. It will injure the ag industry. It criminalizes nearly the entire undocumented population. It will undermine public safety and removes critical protections for families and children, and it even fails to provide a pathway to legal permanent residence for Dreamers. Sometimes my friends across the aisle say the problem with immigration is we don't have assimilation. You don't get assimilation when you create a permanent underclass of people who are Americans in every way but their paperwork. It eliminates family-based categories, and this is the relatives of Americans. American citizens and legal permanent residents, forget it. You are not going to be able to get your family members in if this bill passes. It mandates the use of E-Verify, which would be highly disruptive to restaurants, hotels, and other industries, and the changes in the ag worker provision are just a fig leaf. The bill transforms a civil law violation into a crime so that undocumented immigrants, including the parents of Dreamers the bill purports to help, become criminals overnight. It would accelerate separation of kids from parents when 11 million American workers suddenly become subject to prosecution.…”