Immigration Quotes · Page 23

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

— Jose Serrano

I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.

— Stephen Miller

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

— Sharice Davids

Joe Biden is rewarding human traffickers and coyotes who smuggle illegal aliens across the border.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

There are two types of immigrants. Those who bring problems and those who bring solutions to existing problems. Both are despised.

— Mahesh Srinivasan

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.

— Thomas Paine

Here in Minnesota, we don't only welcome immigrants; we send them to Washington.

— Ilhan Omar

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

— Peter Jennings

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time,…

— Jose Ferreira

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public…

— Jamie Fellner

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the…

— Donald Trump

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

— Jeff Bingaman

When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in…

— Barack Obama

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very…

— Jeff Sessions

By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our…

— Donald Trump

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

[it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this…

— Roger Wicker

Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's…

— Katty Kay

One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority…

— Ted Cruz

Airports! The neon floodlit, recycled air filled, melodramatic hell of them. The purposeful mass migration of anxiety-ridden humans as they frantically navigate…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“Out of two different and distinct traditions, Jennifer and Zachary have come together to learn the best of what each has to…

— Mark M. Bello

I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to…

— Cherien Dabis

We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we…

— Lindsey Graham

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At…

— Thomas Sowell

This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.

— Ilhan Omar

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

— Geert Wilders

I will continue to fight for the safety of Arizonans by pushing for comprehensive immigration reform and increased border security.

— Ruben Gallego

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

— David Vitter

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

— Michael Bloomberg

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

— Donald Trump

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

— Mohsin Hamid

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and…

— Edmund White

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

— Timothy Murphy

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

— Bob Menendez

“Fleeing was not merely a choice, it was a necessity. I left my home, my life, and my safety with a bounty…

— Hagir Elsheikh

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

— Dick Mountjoy

I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.

— Luther Strange

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

— Kerry Kennedy

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

— Deborah Kass