Immigration Quotes · Page 40

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

— Jerry Saltz

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

— Michael Oppenheimer

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

— Marco Rubio

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

— Jon Kyl

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

— Yip Harburg

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

— Sajid Javid

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

— Zach Wamp

Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.

— Christopher Wylie

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of…

— David Axelrod

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of…

— Giuseppe Conte

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's…

— Saxby Chambliss

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life…

— Diane Guerrero

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats,…

— Mark Meadows

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go…

— Wilmer Valderrama

I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all…

— Rand Paul

It seems as though our leaders have almost forgotten about legal immigration and are just leaving our borders open, which is a…

— Lauren Southern

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with…

— Gaylord Nelson

What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and…

— Milton Friedman

When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically.…

— Vijay Seshadri

In high school the very first job I got was I worked as a cashier in Burgerville, which is this fast food…

— Nico Santos

“According to the United Nations annual report released Friday, most of the forcibly displaced worldwide are homeless in their own countries and…

— Anonymous

The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate…

— Sharon Pratt Kelly

I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's…

— Jeff Sessions

“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

— Mitt Romney

I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.

— Frank Lowy

Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.

— Matteo Salvini

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

— Rush Limbaugh

They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. We need to build a wall.

— Donald Trump

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

— Katharine Viner

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.

— Elizabeth Flock

Immigrant essential workers are integrated into our communities and clearly into our workforce.

— Alex Padilla

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

— Barack Obama

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

— John Lydon

If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.

— Nayib Bukele

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.

— Gladys Berejiklian

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

— Samuel P. Huntington