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.

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.

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

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.

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

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

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