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We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with border security.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.