America earned its place in the world because of the immigrants who have come before us, bringing their culture, bringing their passion, bringing their ideas to our shores.

In my experience, most times they are not aware of the legal options available to them.

Congress has a lot of significant issues to work through if we are to be successful in reaching an appropriate compromise and improvements, enduring improvements, to our immigration system.

So you have people who have family members, maybe people who were released on the criminal case--they had a criminal case, they were released on bond, they appeared for their plea hearing or trial, then they were convicted, they go to…

But as Mr. Arulanantham suggested, with modern technology--GPS, ankle bracelets--that really were not available broadly, did not exist back in 1996, there are districts that are now showing--regions that are showing 99 percent.

They say they also want a system that protects the American work force and grows our economy.

we are marking the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright and the recognized right to counsel for American citizens in the criminal process.

But when I tell people that our immigration system does not allow immigration judges to consider circumstances, to balance different factors, to consider risk of flight, ties to the community, and whether or not there are U.S. citizen…

As Senator Coons so graciously acknowledged, I myself am an immigrant...

As Senator Coons stated, DHS imprisons over 400,000 people every year.

Too often our immigration enforcement system does not provide a fair day in court to those who aspire to be citizens.

And, Ms. Stampp, if they do not have access to counsel--and in a majority of cases they do not--then where do immigrants in these circumstances turn?