Luis Gutiérrez

I think we have to get away from this notion and we have to stand up for farmworkers.

I want to join the Ranking Member, Zoe Lofgren, in expressing our desire to work with the other side of the aisle in a bipartisan manner.

I would hope that as part of any process we make tests, especially in the first few months, that when we catch any scoundrels out there attempting to hire undocumented workers, that we enforce the full force of the law against them.

I want to fix our broken immigration system.

I want to make sure that, as we have--we are suggesting today, that if there is an employer in America who wishes to hire an undocumented worker, that the full weight of the law is applied to that individual.

I hope you will use more prosecutorial discretion not less prosecutorial discretion so as this Congress finally gets to the work of comprehensive immigration reform.

You will deport 1,400 people tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day until we do comprehensive immigration reform.

To restore the rule of law, we need that two-pronged approach.

The reality is that we need enforcement of our immigration laws. There is no question about it.

I think that your expressions are ones that fill me with hope... that keeps our borders secure and does not open our borders.

I think that here we have given testimony about how our immigration system undermines marriage.

I think this is a pretty hard panel to beat. It fills our record with the necessity of American citizens and their need to keep their families together.

We spend more money on enforcement on immigration than we do on the Secret Service to protect the President.

I and others proposed legislation that would give up to 50,000 STEM visas

I would say that there was an election and that if there was a big winner in this election, it was the STEM industry

We need you comprehensive immigration reform. We cannot do it without E-Verify, and we need it to work.

If Mr. Kashkooli organizes workers, do the members of your association, do the farmers have the right to fire one of your workers?

I think Mr. Carr makes a great point. We talk about energy dependence and the dependence on oil.

Should that farmer be able to fire that worker for joining a union or organizing a union?

I think improving E-Verify and some of the proposals in Congressman Smith's and other bills, it really makes a difference.

He is not a burden. He got legalized. He came to my office. We hired him. He is working. He is paying taxes.

You know, that means they are not going to be effective. So I think looking at, do we have resources we need to prevent fraud.

If you are here illegally, and you see a crime on the street, you are afraid to call the police for fear of you getting involved in it.

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

I want to say a special thank you to Mayor Castro. You just lit up our house.