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

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

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

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

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.

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

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.