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

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" 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. "

" Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. "

" Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change. "

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

" We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest. "

" 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. "

" 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 Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain. "

" Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy. "

" I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012. "

" 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. "

" The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were. "

" 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. "

" Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message. "

" According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. "

" We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one. "

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

" I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one. "

" 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. "

" BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big. "

" The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. "

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