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

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

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

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.

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.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

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