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 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 assure you, they are going to say bring tens of thousands of workers to America, but they are going to give them green cards.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 didn't come here to undermine anyone's work... but to work in a collaborative spirit.

I don't believe any decent human being would argue that those children should be deported. We should give them citizenship immediately without thinking twice.

I didn't come here to undermine anyone's work and to challenge anybody's work, but to work in a collaborative spirit.

I don't think we should look at immigrants and say, how are they going to get health care?

I think we need to do comprehensive immigration reform so when they pay taxes, it goes into the right account.