"I'd encourage my colleagues who are seeking a true solution to join our effort to address our broken system."
"The longer we wait to pass comprehensive immigration reform, the more challenging this issue will become."
"the majority of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only interested in performance."
"We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars securing the border, and it has been an expensive failure."
"It is advantageous to us, in order to embrace diversity, number one. Number two, it makes us stronger to embrace diversity."
"Part of the reform process is the protection of minorities, and it is the fight against harmful and fascist rhetoric as well."
"Unfortunately, over the last 60 days, what we have seen, what we have had to focus our attention on, is preventing the violence in the north from spreading even further and from destabilizing the regi..."
"I have seen a really alarming trend that has become increasingly more alarming every year that I have been in Congress."
"I don't see the same urgency to have that conversation from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle."
"He was not an undocumented immigrant. He was a U.S. citizen."
"There is nobody who wants a well-managed, safe border more than those of us who live there."