"This is a President who likes railing about immigration far more than doing anything about it."
"All objective economists who have looked at this recognize that giving our DREAMers legal status that stop tearing families apart and let those who have been here legally in our country contribute to ..."
"The irony in Texas is so great. We face worker shortages right now, particularly in construction, in agriculture, in the service industries."
"the only thing that I can think of that might be a bigger vote in something broken is our budget process"
"The hearing was a prospective look at how important immigration is and will continue to be for the sustainability of our economy and our society."
"We started with only two preconditions to the discussion. One is it had to fix the problems. Two, it had to be able to pass both houses."
"the real problem in doing comprehensive immigration reform is that in today's world, Republicans want to focus on border security."
"a huge percentage of our technology companies were founded by immigrants."
"If we don't make sure that brown and black America is as productive as it can possibly be and succeed as well as they could, that white America will not be able to retire."
"Immigrants will account for nearly 87 percent of U.S. population growth by 2049, up from 45 percent today."
"And if we were to take the steps that we have discussed in the hearing, deporting large--millions of immigrants right now and restricting our immigration numbers, that is going to make it very--a lot ..."
"As a Congress, we really have to deal with this subject. We can't put it off."