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Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.
I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
We cannot be a pro-immigrant party only when it is convenient.
BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.
The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.
Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.
I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.
DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.
We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.
We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.
While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue.
The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of smugglers.
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.
Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings.
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.
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.
If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here.
Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.
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.
We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.
I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012.
Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.
If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
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.
Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.
If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.
The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain.
Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests.
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.
Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.
The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.
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.
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.
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.
Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy.
We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.
The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.