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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.