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" The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides. "

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" Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that. "

" The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy. "

" We should allow DREAMers to declare that they are not criminals, that they want to be here, want to fully participate in their society and get on the books. We should make college, work, and military service available to them. "

" Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. "

" We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of smugglers. "

" The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. "

" In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution. "

" DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers. "

" While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue. "

" Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation. "

" Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally. "

Immigration Policy

" We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals. "

" Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis. "

" We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked. "

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

" We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws. "

" We cannot be a pro-immigrant party only when it is convenient. "

" I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them. "

" We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time. "

" We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. "

" Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests. "

" And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them. "

" If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically? "

" The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation. "

" Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. "

" In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants. "

" I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career. "

" The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights. "

" We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration. "

" As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush. "