Immigration Quotes · Page 22

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

— Donald Trump

I have fought back against voices out there that want to curtail immigration, because immigration is critical to our success.

— Erin O'Toole

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

— Conan O'Brien

We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the…

— Luis Gutierrez

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

— Alex Tabarrok

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

— Jeff Sessions

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

— Amy Bloom

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

— Steve Kornacki

Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people…

— Jimmy Carter

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of…

— Kendrick Meek

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants,…

— Alan Greenspan

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are…

— Donald Trump

The people who have destroyed the health care system are also in line to destroy other aspects of our economy, the job…

— Rush Limbaugh

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder…

— David Suzuki

We're at a point right now in our development in this country - setting the immigration issue aside - that you can't…

— Jimmy Smits

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…

— John F. Kennedy

There is a seductive simplicity in Donald Trump's vision to build walls and ban refugees to protect American interests. But we must…

— Reshma Saujani

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as…

— Tom Cotton

I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage…

— Maria Echaveste

“Hanna reached for Margaret's hand, knowing nothing she could say would bring comfort. Margaret would never see her grandmother again. Nor would…

— Meredith Jaeger

The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's…

— Pramila Jayapal

“At L2, we track migration patterns between the largest firms, including traditional agencies and the Four. WPP is the world’s largest advertising…

— Scott Galloway

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

— Robert Irvine

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

— Paul Soglin

The refugees on the road are in the hands of fate, with their lives at stake.

— Robert Capa

Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.

— Rashida Tlaib

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

— Steve Scalise

When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.

— Barack Obama

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

— Max Boot

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

— Donald Trump

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

— Hiro Murai

Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.

— Rush Limbaugh

This will always be a nation of immigrants. It is the one common trait we all share.

— Mike Parson

“Deporting people from the only country they've ever known is *slightly* worse than sexual masochism, imo.”

— T.J. Kirk

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”

— Abhijit Naskar

What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

— Lamar S. Smith

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

— Anonymous

Liberals from California to Washington are fighting President Trump on illegal immigration.

— Matt Rosendale