Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in…

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

— Luis Gutierrez

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette…

— Luis Gutierrez

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process.…

— Luis Gutierrez

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion…

— Luis Gutierrez

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

— Luis Gutierrez

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long…

— Gary Locke

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath…

— Eric Liu

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

— Ted Cruz

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.…

— Barack Obama

If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in…

— Susan Jacoby

We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even…

— Jeff Sessions

Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have…

— George W. Bush

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

— Bria Vinaite