I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.
And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.
I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.
There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.
I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.
A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.
The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.
I believe we must study which changes must be made now that the immigration system has changed, because we are seeing, I believe, that at this time we are inviting people to come to the U.S. on very dangerous trips.
