My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin! — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders. — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents — John Culberson Copy Share Image
All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
Two volunteer groups in Arizona have set up cameras on the Mexican border, so that people with fast internet connections can sign… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
When polled on Donald Trump's agenda, though pluralities of young people oppose his policies on immigration and healthcare, there is one issue… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“This peaceful infiltration of barbarians which altered the whole character of the society which it invaded would have been impossible, of course,… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“America and Greece are at different stops on the same one-way street, all too familiar to us immigrants. There's nothing new about… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Even judges' children hear something about the world, they go to the Black Sea like everyone in the country. They look out… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
I think America is changing. I think we are becoming a country that is not as welcoming to immigrants anymore. You have… — Jim Acosta Copy Share Image
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the… — Jody Heymann Copy Share Image
The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political. — Tania Bruguera Copy Share Image
I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.” — Sebastian Saviano Copy Share Image
Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections. — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do. — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
