The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.
Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
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.
The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.
After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.
The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.
