Bob Goodlatte Quotes

The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.

People associate farmworkers with illegal immigrants, and that's really not the case.

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

The illegal immigrants may have broken the law, but we have been complicit.

Our whole immigration system is the theater of the absurd….

Our immigration system is broken.

Our immigration system is broken.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.

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.

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.

We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.

The H-2A guest visa program has been prone to excessive delays and is too rigid to fit the changing needs of farmers and their employees.