Floor Speeches

I rise today to encourage my colleagues to live up to a challenge that has been put before us by the people of our country, by the people of Arizona, by the people of my state, and that is the challenge to replace our broken immigration system with one that works.  As I travel across my district, I haven't found a single constituent on the left or right that's happy with the state of immigration today in this country.  There are over 10 million immigrants in this country who are working illegally, frequently undermining wages from working families, taking jobs away from Americans.  We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that this number doesn't grow to 15 million or 20 million, but in fact we have no one that resides in this country illegally, requiring registration and making sure that  people follow the law and restore the rule of law.  I’m a proud cosponsor of the House comprehensive immigration reform bill , which will accomplish that, and I call upon my colleagues in the Senate to introduce a bill, based on the 25-page outline they released last week, that would ensure once and for all that we hear the voice of the American people, come together, and solve our immigration system. Thank you.