Floor Speeches

The American people want action on immigration reform.  The people of Arizona want action, the people of Colorado want action.  The people of America are frustrated, rightfully so—frustrated with widespread violations of the law, with lack of border security.  What is national sovereignty if we don’t even know who’s here and there’s millions of violations of the law every day?  But it is Congress that needs to act to pass comprehensive immigration reform.  The people of Arizona want a solution.  They have sunken to desperate and unconstitutional means and have sent a signal to us, here in the Capitol, to take action to fix this important issue.  It should take no courage for members of Congress to support immigration reform.  It would take blind courage to oppose or refuse to act on immigration reform, because the people of this country want us to fix this issue and fix this problem.  And if the American Congress fails to act, the people of this country and the people of Arizona will elect a Congress that will solve this issue.  Thank you.