Lamar Smith: Why not use the immigration tools Congress already passed?

U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee and former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration. His e-mail address is lamar.smith@mail.house.gov.

For over 200 years, immigrants coming to our nation have found hope at their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. The words written at its base, “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,â€