Immigration Quotes · Page 33

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

— Thomas Sowell

We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

— Hillary Clinton

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

— Juan Williams

Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

— Kevin de Leon

Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

— Nancy Pelosi

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

— Louis Farrakhan

We've had some big waves [of immigration]. And tremendously positive things have happened. Incredible things have happened.

— Donald Trump

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and…

— Joe Arpaio

Politicians have been spreading fear, saying if we're letting in refugees, we're letting in terrorists. It's not the truth. We've got to…

— Jimmy Barnes

If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants…

— Jan C. Ting

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother…

— James Altucher

[Illegal immigrants] they're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.Somebody is doing the raping. Somebody is doing it. There's women being raped.…

— Donald Trump

We obviously talk about immigration, but that's not the number one priority for - at least that I've seen with the Latino…

— Lucy Flores

Let's help take back our country with our wallets, and don't forget to contact your senators and congressman to let them know…

— Ken Cuccinelli

Even more troubling, not only are Asians largely unseen at the front line of the immigration debate, they are not using the…

— Alex Wagner

Donald Trump's laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in America. We've been talking it to death…

— Mike Pence

Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question…

— Anthony Bourdain

Before the United States, there wasn't really anyplace anybody could go. They had to seek refuge in other ways. After the United…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed…

— Guy Standing

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken…

— Matt Salmon

I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“...most of the parade's attendees clung to a notion of what their town was, what values it embodied, what hopes it carved…

— Stephen Markley

Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter…

— Ayelet Shaked

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

— Aravind Adiga

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being…

— Clara Shih

What we have had to do in the Biden/Harris administration is build from the ground up our humane, orderly and safe immigration…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

— Jan C. Ting

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

— Sofia Vergara

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

— Donald Trump

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

— Donald Trump

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

— Rush Limbaugh

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

— Louis MacNeice

“You'll be brought in on temporary visas and denied pathways to permanent residency.”

— Dipti Dhakul

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

— Tom Tancredo

As the son of immigrants, I could never have imagined the incredible political journey I have been on. I feel blessed.

— Humza Yousaf

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

— Donald Trump

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

— Kiran Desai

We can't deny the financial toll illegal immigrants take on our communities.

— Dick Mountjoy