If we pass legislation and they all do not go to citizenship, the next day somebody is going to show up and say that Congressman Gutierrez did not do a good enough job.

Well, once again we are not legislating in this Committee. We could be using this time to find common ground...

The time to act is now.

Shame on us. Shame on us.

The political consequences of inaction on this issue are going to be grave to the Republican Party.

Now is the time to pass immigration reform, and we can do the biometrics. But it has to be part of a bigger solution.

Let's work it out. That is all I am saying. Let's sit down, and let's not say we can't do anything.

We need to go to conference, gentlemen and ladies. We need to find a solution.

I think we have an historic opportunity before us to work together to improve our immigration laws.

We will not go away. We will persist in this issue.

Mitt Romney said self-deportation, let's expand S.B. 1070, and he said he would veto the Dream Act. He lost by 5 million votes.

I want an American solution to our broken immigration system.

I am optimistic that once you take a step towards justice, you will take a second one.

Twelve years ago, I introduced the first bill to legalize the status of young people brought to this country by their parents.

I would love to have my mother back.

I would like to ask unanimous consent that the op-ed written by my colleague, Congressman Mike Coffman, titled 'The Time for Immigration Reform is Now'...be submitted for the record.

Let me be clear, and unequivocal. Legalizing only the DREAMers is not enough.

They are here. They are staying. They are not afraid.

Not for want of trying, on my part and on the part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and many others to build support on both sides of the aisle, we were fighting against the headwinds of the most partisan period in recent American…

There is no right to citizenship of the United States. It is a privilege that is provided by the law.

I am always impressed by the depth and the breadth of the movement in this country for immigration reform.

They will not settle for what is good for them unless they can also win what is good for their families.

But look at where we are today.

I ask that also be included in the record.

I think we should look at immigrants as most of them look at themselves.