This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordinary harm to people.

If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for us in how do we advise our constituents.

If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.

I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all very aware that this is history in the making, and the country will be transformed by it.

It's a dangerous game the Republicans are playing.

There was real progress today, enormous progress today. We knew from the beginning that you need a bipartisan proposal in order to pass the Senate. That appears to be what the Judiciary Committee is proposing.

This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here.

That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.

We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of people are at stake here. Folks are going to demand that Congress step to the plate and act.

There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothing about that.