If we would spend the same type of energy on figuring out how we can pass comprehensive immigration reform, we would be taking a very different direction.

The Supreme Court has said that a president has a lot of flexibility to enforce the immigration laws.

I would rather have Congress handle this. This is the right way, but the president does have precedent in taking this action.

It is probably the most do-nothing Congress in modern history.

I know -- that, I -- I really feel that he wants to do it. But he is not allowing himself to exert his powers as speaker to get it done.

Speaker Boehner, even though I think he wants to do it. You know, he is letting the very conservative part, the Tea Party folks, dictate what he wants to do.

Many people characterize the southern border as being unsafe but today's numbers paint a very different picture.

I thank Ranking Member Lowey for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of passing this legislation before us. First, I want to thank Chairman Rogers, and I certainly want to thank the ranking member, Mrs. Lowey, for working together to…

I thank the Chairman. Madam Speaker, we are sent here to Washington not to address the easy problems, but to address the difficult problems that this Nation is facing. When President John F. Kennedy was faced with a very difficult crisis…

I support full comprehensive immigration reform, but today's vote on this supplemental appropriation bill is to provide funding to ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border, an area that I…

What is wrong by having the president go down there?

I think any leaders will defined on how he or she will handle a crisis different, and this is certainly a humanitarian crisis.