Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there are millions of undocumented workers that work hard, sweat soil every day to put the food we eat on our table. That's not a myth, that's a reality. Why don't we let them come with visas to this country so that then we don't have people using that border.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.