If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
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 doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
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?
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.
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.
United States immigration reform would be a fair recognition of those [Mexicans] who live in the United States and are part of the dynamic U. S. economy.
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.
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 important that we enact immigration reform.
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.
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.'
On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .
for the existing illegal immigrants
We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.
Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.
We must pass immigration reform.
Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.
I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.
