border, and also give folks who have been here often times for many years the opportunity to pay back taxes, to stay here with their family, to get right by the law as he has said, but what congress can do and what attorney general abbott, soon to be governor abbott, should do is to advocate passing a bill, passing legislation so we can have comprehensive immigration reform. the senate has already done it. and now it is time for the house the to do the same. >> as a member of congress i'm hopeful that the republican senate and the republican house will pass their own version of immigration reform -- >> but you don't think that will happen, either one of you. >> even if i vote against it, i hope they will pass their version. i think what you could have is something akin to the 1990s where you have a republican congress, a democratic president. they pass their version of a bill and that starts a negotiation with the white house where democratic members of congress can be supportive of the president but you have a two-way negotiation going on. >> mr. secretary, i have to take