I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

Nobody in this administration talked about amnesty. It's always been a guest worker program.

The Department of Labor is committed to getting benefits to eligible workers and their families as quickly as possible.

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