I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.