Ben Cardin: We Should Have Comprehensive Immigration Reform

EXCERPT:

CARDIN: "Secondly, let’s recognize that we do need comprehensive immigration reform. That’s what the Senate passed four years ago. Senator Schumer was part of the leadership of bringing that bill to a successful vote in the United States Senate. It dealt with these types of issues by changing our immigration laws to make a lot more sense. Unfortunately, the House never took up that legislation. I think the President is wrong in the way that he’s using this tragedy to highlight one of the problems we have on immigration. We should have comprehensive immigration reform, that’s true. But that’s not what caused this tragedy. What caused this tragedy is the fact that we need to, first of all, make sure that we use the best intelligence to deal with terrorism. This may have been a lone wolf. They’re the most difficult for us to deal with. Our sympathies should be with the families and we should pull together as a nation to make sure we’re as strong as possible."