Immigration Quotes · Page 39

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

— William J. Clinton

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”

— John Keats

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

— Angelina Jolie

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

— Paul Ryan

As home secretary, I will work to ensure that our immigration policy is fair and humane.

— Amber Rudd

Honestly, if they were Christian refugees coming in, I think the Obama administration would vet them a little more toughly.

— Jesse Watters

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

— Grace Meng

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

— John Cornyn

Americans deserve an experienced leader who will bolster our national security, strengthen ports of entry, protect and expand relief for our Dreamers,…

— Ben Ray Lujan

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who…

— Jared Polis

David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It…

— Owen Jones

“Globally, 1 in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. If this were the population of…

— Thomas L Friedman

So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the…

— Luis Gutierrez

Decades of anti-migrant rhetoric in parliament and the press has resulted in few voters having realistic ideas of the genuine level of…

— Dawn Foster

Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto…

— Tom Tancredo

He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as…

— Anton Cermak

We have a huge immigration population in Sweden, but when I was younger, I grew up in a small town and, at…

— Snoh Aalegra

Why is it Muslims from Pakistan or from Egypt come to America and thrive, and they are frustrated back home? It's about…

— Thomas Friedman

We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, which we need desperately. For years Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa…

— Donald Trump

The notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want…

— Philippe Falardeau

We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol…

— Barbara Jordan

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and…

— Harvey Fierstein

“The success of college towns and big cities is striking when you just look at the data. But I also delved more…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

— Mark Meadows

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

— Ted Cruz

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public…

— Penny Mordaunt

That's why I call Barack Obama a petulant child. He's doing it on guns. He did it on immigration. He's done it…

— Chris Christie

Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.'

— Ilana Mercer

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

— Lidia Bastianich

“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.”

— Jerry Agar

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

— John Steinbeck

Whenever Republicans talk about immigration, people immediately think it is the part of anti-immigrant messaging. It is not.

— Young Kim

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

— Matt Gaetz

We need someone who's going to govern on behalf of everyone in this country, including immigrants.

— Diane Guerrero

Let me tell you who the immigration system in America does not serve. It does not serve you the American people.

— Donald Trump

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

— Jack Kingston

Immigrants are illegal, since once they set foot on European soil, they have violated the law.

— Marine Le Pen

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

— Rush Limbaugh