The first thing that we have got to recognize in the country is that the system isn't working. The immigration system needs reform. The status quo is unacceptable.

You have heard it, too, about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you have got to pay, you know, a price for having been here illegally. And this bill does that.

I can assure you that detainees are not being tortured. We respect human rights.

We're already seeing remarkable advances in science and therapeutic uses as stem cells drawn from adults and children.

Because I supported an amended that will provide $4.4 billion in immediate additional funding for securing our borders and enforcing our laws at the worksite.

So I call on the Senators to pass this amendment and show the American people that we're going to do our jobs of securing this border once and for all.

If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it. You can use it to frighten people.

Does this president have any political capital left, even with his own party?

It's going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of effort.

Not very much. He has very little to trade on immigration.

the president trying again today to sell it, but does he have enough clout to close the deal?

But those of us standing here believe now is the time to move a comprehensive bill that enforces our borders and has good workplace enforcement that doesn't grant automatic citizenship, that addresses this problem in a comprehensive way.