Paul Gosar Quotes

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

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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.

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

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?

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

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

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 time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.

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.

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

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.

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.

We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago - like in 2009, when they controlled the entire federal government and maintained a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue.

Dealing with immigration should originate in Congress. The president should not act unilaterally.