Joe Garcia

We must do at least three things: further strengthen border security; streamline the legal immigration process; and create a path to citizenship.

What Americans deserve is a system that works. A system that is efficient.

Look, I think that the issue here is that we have mistaken--and the folks on the other side might be missing--is that this is no paradise, that people work awfully hard on the American dream, and all they want is an opportunity.

The green card is a wonderful way of being here. The only difference between the green card and citizenship is the right to vote.

I wonder what this hearing would be like if we were like Canadians, desperately seeking people to come to our country because we simply have no one who wants to be there.

We have got a big problem here, and I think we all agree that our immigration system is broken.

What I don't want people to take away from this hearing is that all of a sudden we forgot about the tired and the poor.

Diversity adds something to this country, and we should never forget it.

I think it has to be a comprehensive approach, or we will never get to the hard part.

we ought to try to more aggressively address that because if that impedes development, full development of the energy potential, it means we are losing jobs, losing revenue opportunities in areas of the Country that most desperately need…

our Country needs additional energy. We need additional production here of all kinds of energy to make us less dependent on foreign oil and to make us more energy secure.

a substantial portion of energy is available to be produced on Indian lands, and that is where we most need economic development and the creation of new jobs and new income streams.

We need to move these ideas forward and to enact them now.

I will take personal leadership in trying to come up with some solutions to the issue.

Native Americans are victims of violent crime at rates more than double those of any other community in the United States.

The difficulty is if we can have an affect in reducing global warming and we do not and global warming continues, the costs could be catastrophic.

I think that is clearly going to be a charge for this Administration. It is going to take strong leadership to come in and start making some significant changes.

If the drug dealers and others are aware that we have jurisdictional issues, then if they know that they cannot do anything to them, especially if they are non-Indian, they will set up shop in the reservation.

if you cannot protect and you cannot have the safety of your people as the first course of action, then it is not right

One-third of our women will be raped in their lifetimes.

Crime rates have been increasing in Indian Country while they have been falling in similar low-income communities throughout the United States.

You will not find it. The question is simply never raised.

it is important that the right to self-determination on Guam be fulfilled and that federal funds be appropriately expended in support of a public education campaign strictly to explain political status options.

I think at least on this side of the aisle we support trying to reduce the human impacts on global warming.

we are looking for innovative solutions, not the same old things that have been tried or not tried