Political Quotes

“there is no question that there is a green card backlog for immigrant visas. We issue 140,000 employment- based visas a year and 226,000 family visas. There are some 5 million seeking them. I want to increase the number of green cards. The Senator from Utah opposes that. As a result, the bill that he introduced, according to analysis by the Congressional Research Service--this is not Durbin's language; this is the Congressional Research Service: S. 386, the lead legislation, would not reduce future backlogs compared to current law. When he talks about 195 years and John Quincy Adams or whatever his historical analogy was, he doesn't address that at all in S. 386. The problem, of course, is that he is bound to a position of his party that will not allow one additional new immigrant--none. I don't take that position. These men and women and their kids have been living in the United States. Many of them have been here for years, some of them for decades. Some of them are doctors in hospitals in my hometown. I trust them, and I trust their kids. What I am asking him to do today is simply join with me in protecting their children while we resolve the other issues. He refuses. He refused yesterday. He refuses again today. He calls my approach sloppy. Let's see the Lee alternative to protect the children. I would like to see what he would like to propose. Maybe it is language that is better, and maybe I can embrace it.…”