Immigration Quotes · Page 29

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

— Adam Schiff

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in…

— Ted Cruz

I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.

— Hillary Clinton

I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.

— Rush Limbaugh

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

— Jose Mujica

We must end the incentives and close the loopholes that are pushing people to illegally enter our country.

— Katie Britt

Immigration is the major issue everywhere, and even the countries where it isn't the number one issue, it ends up becoming one.

— Douglas Murray

Hillary Clinton supports open borders, amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.

— Mike Pence

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local…

— John Culberson

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of…

— William J. Clinton

Problemista' is not meant to be a global thesis on immigration. It is not a documentary about policy. Rather, the movie came…

— Julio Torres

People don't appreciate the extent to which we've set in motion a substantial and long-overdue change to U.S. immigration policy, simply by…

— Stephen Miller

I would like to get immigration enforcement right. I think that there is a problem there, and it needs some really careful…

— Amber Rudd

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for…

— Dennis Miller

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of…

— Conrad Black

Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we…

— Pramila Jayapal

I just always believe that we should not reward people with citizenship whose first act in this country was a violation of…

— Mike Pence

We've been talking about the Syrian refugee crisis a lot, in the news in the U.K. and possibly the U.S., but it…

— Nadine Shah

...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it…

— Phil Gramm

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as…

— Ezra Klein

At the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it…

— George H. W. Bush

“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good,…

— Donald Trump

A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are…

— Geraldo Rivera

It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.

— Pramila Jayapal

Stopping and returning illegal migrants to their countries of origin must become standard procedure.

— Sebastian Kurz

I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.

— Chuka Umunna

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

— Richard Lamm

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

— Rand Paul

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border…

— Mitch McConnell

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources…

— Joe Arpaio

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

— Ted Cruz

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

— Rudy Giuliani

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to…

— Bob Goodlatte

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

— Thomas Sowell

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

— Luis Gutierrez

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

— Bob Dole

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

— Jeb Bush

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

— Phyllis Bennis