Immigration Quotes · Page 34

They [illegals] are bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

— Donald Trump

So the keeper waits upon, he waits upon a border. Let me own your punishment, It's time to break the border!

— Children Of Bodom

Having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial.

— Donald Trump

“Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.”

— Moe

We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.”

— Nikesh Shukla

I oversee three agencies and thousands - tens of thousands of individuals who focus on our immigration system and fixing it.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable…

— Duncan Hunter

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom…

— Elia Kazan

There will never be a bill without a pathway to citizenship signed by the president...And in turn there will never be a…

— Lindsey Graham

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and…

— Leonard Nimoy

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like…

— Matthea Harvey

There is, toward the Front, a suspicion of anti-Semitism, and it is totally at odds with the real danger due to mass…

— Marine Le Pen

Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent…

— Peter Bergen

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother…

— George J. Mitchell

When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm…

— Dean Spade

For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license,…

— Gail Collins

I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees,…

— Chris Cornell

The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned…

— Steve Kornacki

Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as…

— Antonio Guterres

What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers -…

— Donald Trump

I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration.…

— Gary Becker

I am thankful that Brooklyn, a community of more than 2.6 million people of which nearly half speak a language other than…

— Eric Adams

When Joe Biden dismantled Trump-era border protections on his first day in office, he created a slow-burning national security crisis.

— Miranda Devine

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

— Marco Rubio

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

— Bill Foster

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into…

— Steve Scalise

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

— Jose Serrano

Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that.

— Katie Hill

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

— Spencer Bachus

As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available…

— Pramila Jayapal

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

— Simu Liu

Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.

— Tim Pawlenty

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

— Yvette Clarke

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

— Jan C. Ting

We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.

— Michel Temer

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

— Sonny Perdue

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

— David Blunkett