POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the need for
bipartisan immigration reform. Until Congress addresses our broken immigration system; secures our
border; provides a pathway for people who have been here a long time to
be able to eventually earn full citizenship; and provides a way for
people who are here illegally and required to register, get right with
the law, and get in line behind those who have come legally, it will
remain a problem in cities and communities across our entire country. There has been a failure of leadership in this body, the United
States Congress, to actually address our broken immigration system. There has been a failure from both sides to provide a pathway forward
for a problem that only Congress can solve, and that will only get
larger until we take it up here. Last week, I visited the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. I witnessed and talked to family members and mothers who had been taken
away from their American children over something as minor as a speeding
ticket. We can, and we must, do better as a nation. We need an immigration
system that reflects that we are both a nation of laws and a nation of
immigrants. I call upon my Republican and Democratic colleagues to work
together to achieve this end.
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