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.

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

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

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

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.

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

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.