...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.