I do not think it is. I think since the last effort to solve immigration, the border security has deteriorated.

Once we get there, comprehensive reform should come up, will come up, and I believe we can do it by 2012 if we are smart.

Do we have 60 votes to bring up comprehensive immigration reform between now and November?

For anybody who is watching this issue who wants relief in the Hispanic community, you deserve it.

But I bet you everything I own, if you bring it up in this environment, not having done anything that is going to reassure the American public that we will not have 20 million more, that you are going to crash and burn.

It is impossible for me and any other serious Democrat to get this body to move forward until we prove to the American people we can secure our borders.

The point of the matter is that there are two problems in America: an unsecured southern border and a visa system that is completely broken.

And I would say to what Senator Sessions said, all of us kind of look the other way as long as the labor needs are being met.

I would bet everything I own that the answer is this 2007 bill will not pass.

I think 70 percent of Americans are in the camp that illegal immigrants need to be fairly and firmly dealt with, and fairly and firmly does not mean mass arrests.

I want a good partnership with China. I want it to be mutually beneficial.

I hope the Congress, the Democratic and Republican leadership, will get behind this bill because the time is long overdue to act.