Would you address the issue of wage theft that is in your statement there?

It's a national security risk. Our shortage of farm and food workers has forced us to rely on other countries to meet our food needs.

To wait for 30 years and to watch the situation grow as desperate as it has, not only at the border, but with businesses and farms represented here today.

We've got to get off dead center and do something.

I want to say that I have no prejudice against growers and farmers at all.

I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.

We're going to import more food than we export because it's so much cheaper to farm in other places than it is here.

Immigration has made us what we are today.

I think we have to be honest and realistic about it.

One of my colleagues was asking for grades on the performance of the President. What would be the grade on the performance of Congress when it comes to immigration? Failed grade, I'm sure, by every standard.

For my part, I met with constituents across the State of Illinois, and everywhere traveled I heard the same thing over, and over, and over.

We had four Democrats and four Republicans and we spent months putting together a comprehensive immigration reform bill which passed in the floor of the Senate.

Their first question is, 'When can I go to work? Anything. Tell me, Senator. Anything.'

Those are poverty wages.

I believe that the United States has benefited greatly from immigration and the immigrants who arrive both economically and culturally.

Everything's connected, my friends. This is a connected Nation, and a connected economy, and we ought to have a sensible policy.

immigration reform is the most immediate and meaningful step we could take today to resolve our shortage of workers.

For more than three decades, Congress has failed to modernize our Nation's immigration system.

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I thought that we did until we received a response from Chief Justice Roberts.

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