[Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what about the rest? What happens to the other 11 or so million, however many there are?
If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
You are going to hear how he [Donald Trump] is going to address the 11 million, and some other issues as well, including sanctuary cities.
Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.
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.
This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled.
In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.
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.
Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.
Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs - including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the Supreme Court. Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.
UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.
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 was part of the gang of eight in the house in 2013 that was working on comprehensive immigration reform. We talked a lot about border security and what was effective and what was not. Walls are not effective when you're out in the desert and you don't need them.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
