Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

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.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

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.

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

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

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.