We are reintroducing that bill today, by the way. It has broad bipartisan; it has the support of Republicans as well as Democrats, church leaders, members of the Hispanic Caucus, and now recently the President of the United States.

I believe that it would be a good piece for comprehensive immigration reform, and, as you suggest, I believe that there would be significant support for that.

We need to fix that ASAP, and we need do the other things we are talking about without doubt.

What we need to do is provide a system that will actually meet our needs both in the economy, whether it is high tech, whether it is agriculture, and that also respects the needs for American families to be united.

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

A hearing is a great start, but a hearing is not enough. Let us rise above the political fray.

I believe that this Committee is that important.

There are undocumented people in this room. There are dreamers in this room. I am happy that the President used his executive authority.

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.

I think it would be such a tragedy if we became sidetracked on whether or not the 11 million here who responded to the help wanted sign at the border can never become right with the law and never have the aspiration to become an American.

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.

We wanted to give it to you. And in our bill, 50,000, you get to come from the very first day with your wife.

We are not talking about giving U.S. citizenship to anybody. What we are saying is over some period of time that is arduous, you might gain legal permanent residence in the United States.

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

I didn't come here to undermine anyone'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?

It is time we fully embrace that immigration is good for our country.

What Americans deserve is a system that works; a system that is efficient, that is accountable...

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

Family unity has been the bedrock of our immigration system since the Immigration and Nationality Act was enacted in 1952.

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

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

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.

We need to replace them, and we need to replace these assets.

Let us have politics with principles, because the absence of one really leads us down a very treacherous road.