Immigration Quotes
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Immigration Quotes & Sayings
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We will never regain control of our borders until we have an effective employer sanctions program,
— Romano L. Mazzoli
She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.
— Milan Kundera
If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.
— Donald J. Trump
I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
— Bob Menendez
You're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.
— Marco Rubio
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
— Malcolm Turnbull
Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.
— Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.
— Rush Limbaugh
Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.
— Jose Mujica
Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.
— Marina Budhos
It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.
— Akhil Sharma
Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.
— Jeff Hawkins
We need to fix our legal immigration system.
— Carly Fiorina
God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.
— Dillon Burroughs
This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."
— Jay Leno
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
— Bobby Jindal
We asked for workers. We got people instead.
— Max Frisch
{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.
— Andrea Bouchaud
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
— Tony Blair
I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.
— Stefan Molyneux
We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.
— Charlie Munger
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
— Spencer Bachus
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
— Barbara Jordan
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
— Sam Brownback
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.
— Mitt Romney
The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular.
— Ann Coulter
The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
— Xavier Becerra
The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
— Bob Dole
Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
— Sam Yagan
Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
— Yvette Clarke
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
— Jeb Bush
What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.
— Lamar S. Smith
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
— William J. Clinton
I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.
— Duncan Hunter
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
— Rich Lowry
I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.
— Tom Harkin
We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.
— Jared Taylor
EU leaders must act over immigration
— Salil Shetty
A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.
— Jeb Bush
Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.
— Marco Rubio
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
— Grace Hopper
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.
— Tom Vilsack
I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
— Rand Paul
By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.
— Harlan Coben
Arizona just became the 15th state to approve medical marijuana. So I give it three days before they stop caring about the whole immigration thing.
— Jimmy Fallon
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
— Thomas Sowell
Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.
— Vivek Wadhwa
I have fought on the front lines to prevent illegal immigration. I know Donald Trump will stand with me and countless Americans to secure our border.
— Joe Arpaio
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
— Pat Paulsen
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
— Laila Lalami
I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,
— Jose Antonio Vargas
A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.
— Chris Cleave
Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
— Charles Schumer
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
— Barack Obama
Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.
— Pat Buchanan
I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.
— Condoleezza Rice
And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
— Colum McCann
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
— Claudio Magris
What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.
— George J. Borjas
It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.
— Adam Schiff
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
— Hank Johnson
If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
— Luis Gutierrez
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
— Chris Cannon
When it comes to immigration, the journalist's motto is: The public can't be trusted with the truth.
— Ann Coulter
If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
— Ted Cruz
Why I call Barack Obama a petulant child. He's doing it on guns. He did it on immigration. He's done it on "Obama care."
— Chris Christie
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.
— Susana Martinez
Citizens Debt has been helping people with reliable debt advice and other services in solving their debt problems.
— Citizenship And Immigration Services
I am very fond of Jeb Bush. He's a friend; he was a terrific governor of Florida. I worked with him on some immigration and education issues.
— Condoleezza Rice
There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans for the restaurants.
— Ann Coulter
I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.
— Heather Wilson
I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.
— David Dreier
I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
— Rick Perry
An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.
— Mitt Romney
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
— Chuck Palahniuk
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
— Ronald Reagan
Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.
— John Linder
Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.
— Peter Brimelow
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
— Barbara Jordan
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
— Ted Nugent
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
— Emanuel Celler
I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop,
— Imran Khan
I'm a big believer in family-based immigration.
— Marco Rubio