I do think there are potential ideas and solutions out there that I have, others have, and I think we can do it.

If I had additional personnel, I have got robbery issues, I have got auto theft issues, I have got a lot of other crimes that I think threaten public safety a lot more than going after someone who may have overstayed a visa.

I think that it ultimately becomes the difficult--the most difficult continues to be a political issue, not a substantive policy issue.

I think most Americans, at least the polling data I have seen and talking to people, their greatest fear is not this time's path to citizenship.

Can we achieve significant immigration reform in this session and, if so, what would this reform look like?

It is my belief that we can and must try to find a way to enact significant improvements to our immigration system now.

We cannot restore confidence in our immigration system until and unless we face up to reality, put ideology aside, and find solutions.

I pledge that I will work and work and work and work to strike the right balance and achieve the critical reforms to our immigration system that the American people are asking us to enact.

We might be able to get something done that really stands by the basic view that Americans support, like legal immigration and do not like illegal immigration.

Most Americans are pro-immigration but anti-illegal immigration.

I could not think of four better witnesses to start off our long goal, quest, to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.