What are you doing to ensure that the Morton memo is fully implemented and DREAM Act students are not unjustly deported?

U.S. Congressmen should not be harboring and giving a podium to people who knowingly and willfully violate our laws.

To not take advantage of this as a country is simply nonsensical to me. This is an investment, not an expense.

I need your help. Thank you.

We have to get that dropout rate down to zero. It is far too high in our home State of Illinois.

The DREAM Act would give these young people a chance to earn legal status if they have good moral character and go to college or serve in the military.

The borders are more secure today than they have been in 10 years.

I honestly believe that you have an important and serious responsibility to keep America safe, and I believe the overwhelming majority of young people I have met who would qualify under the DREAM Act are not only no threat to America, they…

We think they are worth keeping in America.

We are judged by our own actions, and the deal we all abide by is that if we work hard and play by the rules, the American dream is available to each and every one of us.

This hearing of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security will come to order.

This bill has been introduced and considered for almost 10 years.

Ola, thank you. You were speaking for thousands just like you all across America, and you were very effective.

The DREAM Act only serves to eliminate a nonsensical distinction that currently exists within our immigration system.

We need this talent. We need these people.

I can see no purpose that is served by deporting talented young people who find themselves in a situation not of their own making.

Thousands of immigrant students in the United States were brought here as children.

It seems like if people are looking for a reason to vote no, they are always going to find one.

Our information says it has never been used for undocumented immigrants.

This bill establishes a criminal penalty for fraud of 5 years in prison.

In other words, if they are willing to die for our country and wear our uniform, we ought to give them a chance to be citizens, but under no other circumstances.

Even the State of Texas has decided that these students will be given in-State tuition.

I just do not buy your premise on that.

I urge my colleagues to support the DREAM Act. It is, I think, one of the most compelling human rights issues of our time in America.

I want to salute his leadership on this issue, which has been passionate, intelligent, effective, and never-ending.