"we need to capture the smart people who are geniuses, we need to pump up our economy."
"Every Member of this Committee agrees that America is the greatest country on Earth."
"We turn away advanced degree graduates in STEM from our best universities. We turn away entrepreneurs who want to start businesses."
"Immigrants were responsible for one-quarter of all engineering and technology startups created in the United States between 1995 and 2005."
"I think this panel has been terrific, and I want to thank each one of you for what you have added, enriching our understanding of not the challenge, but the opportunity that we have here to make our c..."
"We need to have the opportunity for entrepreneurs to start businesses, we need to capture the smart people who are geniuses, we need to pump up our economy."
"I have an increased sense of optimism that the Congress is going to come together and come up with sensible approaches that solve the whole challenge that we face in a way that works for America."
"I am, I will just be frank, troubled that the memorandums that allegedly provide the legal basis for this have not been shared."
"I would expect no less from the current President."
"E-Verify can only work if we reform the immigration system. Otherwise, we are just finding out how dysfunctional it really is."
"If all growers were required to use E-Verify, we would confirm what we all know to be true: that American agricultural is built on the backs of undocumented immigrants."
"Without top-to-bottom-reform of our immigration laws, expanding E-Verify would devastate the agricultural economy."