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.

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

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.

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

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

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.