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

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

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

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

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.

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

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