If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
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.
I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.
Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.
I was a co-sponsor of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of 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change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.
Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.
Until a legislative solution to the nation's outdated immigration system becomes a priority for Congress, the right administration will need to examine a broad range of executive actions to enact immediately in the face of a 'Do Nothing Congress.'
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.
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.
Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.
I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.
