We have not had a comprehensive immigration reform in this country in 30-plus years. It has been a failure of this Congress, and if the Republicans really wanted solutions, they would actually work on fixing this system here versus the…

They are about cruelty. They are not about actually addressing the problems on the ground.

Immigration is a good thing. Immigrants are less likely to commit crime, more likely to start small businesses, help us economically.

By making it harder for people to apply for parole, by making it harder for people to seek asylum, Republican policies are exactly what the cartels would like.

the idea of slamming the door when we desperately need these migrants, when we desperately need it, and what we need is an orderly process.

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.

I think it is political theater that we are seeing in this Committee room, that we are seeing in the halls of Congress right now to not humanize the reality of what we are actually talking about.

U.S. population growth right now is at the lowest in its entire history.

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.

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.

If I was a cartel leader, I would be picking the Republican policies being proposed in H.R. 2 every day of the week.

What we know is that House Bill 2 is not designed to actually solve that problem.