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

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

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

I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.

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.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.