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

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.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.