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

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.

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

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.

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.