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

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.

I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that we can take a smaller group,' now apparently led by Senator Cruz - I mean, maybe he's gonna be the next Speaker of the House. Because it's quite clear that Mr. Boehner has no control over this conference.

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.

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.

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.