Tony Cardenas Quotes

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive 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'm concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a 'comprehensive approach' to immigration taken care of 'once and for all.'

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change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.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 reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

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.

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

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.

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

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

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 immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

We need immigration reform, but we need open-air, smaller bills that are germane to an issue and have an open discussion with the American people.

It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.

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

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

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.

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

Immigration problems have been solved nowhere in the world.

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

I have traveled around Minnesota and addressed many issues, and immigration is one of those issues.

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.

I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.