I introduced legislation requiring the State Department to classify drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

I am very concerned--I know others are, as well-- that the message that this administration is sending will lead to strains on the Border Patrol's resources as potential illegal immigrants may surge across the border.

We are either a Nation of laws or we are not, and telling illegal aliens that we are really not looking for them unless they commit additional serious crimes is a mistake.

So call this whatever you want, but when administration officials say that through the New York Times, it appears to me that the administration is saying, 'Look, if you are a noncriminal alien we are just going to allow you to stay in the…

Is it the policy of this administration to allow noncriminal aliens to stay in this country and apply for work permits?

I urge all of my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, to stand against such cuts.

Telling illegal aliens that we are not really looking for them unless they commit additional serious crimes is a tragic mistake and will only serve to encourage more illegal immigration.

His goal was to replace his military with the national police force, which makes sense.

Over the past 5 years, more then 40,000 men, women and children have been brutally murdered by insurgents.

What I was confused about is when this policy came out and it caused some controversy--I think a lot of my constituents view it as an amnesty program; I think most of my constituents do not agree with amnesty.

Instead of offering incentives for people to break the law we should be making it more difficult to cross the border and even harder to get a job once they are here illegally.

Our country has made a series of mistakes, I think, when it comes to immigration reform, without serious border security and serious interior enforcement.