The next step has to be the necessary step. It’s always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.
I have only one loyalty and that’s to the immigrant community.
The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn’t act. I’m going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
Because the truth is, today’s immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we’ll be.
The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
So where are they moving today? They’re going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there’s no demand from outside the Capitol.
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