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

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

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

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.

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.

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