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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.