Joe Garcia: “Immigration is more than a political issue. It's who we are.”

That is the binding contract the United States entered into with Tribes, and from those treaties and other laws has arisen the United States' sacred trust responsibility to the Indian Nations and our peoples.

I ask this committee to empower Tribal Government in the next reauthorization measure by giving Tribes the resources they need.

We are a Nation of laws because law provides order and structure and predictability and peace and equality and justice.

It is time we stopped pretending to fix our broken immigration system. We are sitting here rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.