"They are about cruelty. They are not about actually addressing the problems on the ground."
"when countries that adopt anti-immigrant policies invariably end up, especially with the demographic trends that the United States has, end up in economic stagnation."
"You know, there has been this question about why would we want to make documented legal pathways to immigration more accessible in this country."
"many of these Republican legislatures would rather roll back child labor laws and put 11-and 13-year-olds back in the workplace than allow immigrants into their community."
"U.S. population growth right now is at the lowest in its entire history."
"I want to know, does any American want to see children in cages again? I do not think they do."
"What we know is that House Bill 2 is not designed to actually solve that problem."
"Immigration is a good thing. Immigrants are less likely to commit crime, more likely to start small businesses, help us economically."
"If you cared, then we would update our immigration laws for the first time since basically I was born so that people could apply safely."
"If I was a cartel leader, I would be picking the Republican policies being proposed in H.R. 2 every day of the week."
"You have people like Governor Abbott saying he would shoot migrants coming across the border if he would not get prosecuted for murder for it."