Clearly we have more work to do to build trust between communities and law enforcement in our system of justice.

I think we should roll up our sleeves and begin to do the work of fixing the immigration problem.

I supported and I have worked harder than anyone here... in working with Republicans.

Nothing is more interesting than coming to this Committee, each and every time.

You might want to think about that, so they can defend themselves against those who would portray them as tattoo-wearing gang-bangers.

They love a union, one union, and one union only. Of course, it is the union that helps them promote the kind of xenophobic attitude toward immigrants.

The former head of the Guatemalan police was convicted on June 6 of this month for murdering people.

One simply needs to Google things and you find a different reality than that being expressed here.

The increase in U.S. foreign aid that was recently announced for Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala is insufficient to fully address the violence and instability in the region that are causing children to flee.

The administration's recent decision to dedicate resources to expedite removal proceedings for children families as well as open family detention centers place is a misguided plan with grave consequences.

We urge both Congress and the administration to hold the best interest of the child paramount in all solutions that are being developed to address this crisis.

I want to make that clear. I was in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday.

They want a do-nothing President to go along with the do-nothing Congress.

Let somebody do something on behalf of the American people and for the immigrants of this Nation.

We are here because it is really a do-nothing Congress.

We have a problem in America, 11 million people. They need help.

Unfortunately, everything you said will never translate into any legislative action as none of the people that spoke before you or any of the things that you said. This is political theater.

There is prosecutorial discretion. Every last one of them has to pay nearly $500 in a petition.

They affirmatively said in the House of Representatives that they should have a pathway to legalization.

First of all, I want the public to know that none of these bills will ever become the law of this country. None of them.

Third, the bills would severely weaken our asylum and refugee protection system ensuring the vulnerable groups are sent back to their persecutors against our heritage as a safe haven for the worlds oppressed.

My colleagues in the Republican Party, you will never--you had a good run. Abraham Lincoln, George Bush, nice run. You will never elect another republican president of the United States of America because the immigrant community won't…

Our country is judged by how we treat the most vulnerable, and the removal of protection from children, the most vulnerable, flies against human decency and violates human dignity.

Now, I bet if I went out to South Carolina, North Carolina and went out to those fields, I would see some of those undocumented workers, those illegals that you talk, making sure that those farms, doing backbreaking work on those farms.

I can't wait to hear from the Pope.