John Fleming Quotes

I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

Simply put, President Obama's immigration strategy is all about politics and getting credit rather than about families and people.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.

Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.

As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.

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.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution.