8 Quotes by Angelo Amador

Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.

If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in.

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

But the churches brought the humanitarian perspective that to a large degree was forgotten. We know what that argument is, but the churches were the best to articulate that.

I think to the extent that it keeps them on their toes, it's a good thing. It certainly helps, so long as they continue being peaceful.

We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.

We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always push that threat and say, 'Well, we're going to hold you accountable, we're going to tell everybody,' and one out of every 10 times it works out. This time it did.

The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.