Immigration Quotes

We must pass immigration reform.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I take refuge in my books.

— Julia Ward Howe

We want to build a wall.

— Steve Scalise

We need deportation centres.

— Matteo Salvini

I was an illegal immigrant.

— Salma Hayek

We are a country from immigrants.

— Ashley Biden

I'm against immigration.

— Gavin McInnes

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

— Sofia Kenin

“...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.”

— Christina Dodd

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

— Keith Kellogg

“Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

— Ariel Dorfman

I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.

— Su-chin Pak

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

— Gary Ackerman

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

— Anonymous

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

— Mark Meadows

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

— Sebastian Kurz

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

— Lou Barletta

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is…

— Jeb Bush

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

— Thomas de Maiziere

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

— Luis Gutierrez

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide…

— Greta Van Susteren

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new…

— Judith Butler

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world…

— Lilly Singh

Having arrived in London to seek refuge during the civil war in Sudan, where I was born, the thing I'm most proud…

— Alek Wek

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect…

— Randy Neugebauer

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down…

— Jeff Sessions

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually…

— Enoch Powell

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion,…

— Ron Lewis

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the…

— Anzia Yezierska

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of…

— Henry Bonilla

I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees…

— Pope Francis

Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around…

— Roma Tearne

Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is…

— Charles Paul

“In October 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said: The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in…

— Guy Standing

Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered…

— Donald Trump