Immigration Quotes · Page 24

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

— Joe Kaeser

“Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.”

— Padma Lakshmi

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

— Anonymous

“We’re immigrants. We get the job done. Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette me (at centre-stage)”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

— Philip Emeagwali

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

— Charles Murray

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

— Julien Clerc

We must work together in a bipartisan way to address our broken immigration system with comprehensive reform.

— Colin Allred

There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat…

— Duncan Green

America's future as the global leader in innovation remains in the balance until our immigration system is fixed. A large portion of…

— Brad Feld

“Reinhardt, a German immigrant, told me that the selection of white legacies over Asian scholars reflects a disturbing trend in American society.…

— Daniel Golden

65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when…

— Ann Coulter

I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration... it does them…

— Charles Barkley

I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between…

— Lulu Wang

When we in Congress set the terms under which immigrants in this country must live, we wield a power that is checked…

— Mazie Hirono

Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged…

— J. James Exon

I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you…

— Edward de Bono

That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the…

— Noam Chomsky

Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees.…

— Marco Rubio

I believe that what we should do first and foremost is seal the border. The Republicans and Democrats have both failed on…

— Thom Tillis

Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions… Under these provisions, the country in…

— Kathleen Brown

Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the…

— David Malpass

“So, I am a refugee, and I get very lonely. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English…

— Chris Cleave

“I look through the window at the huge valley lit up with different colors. The town is cradled by the dark mountains.…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

— Arthur Kemp

Under my plan the undocumented or as you would say illegal immigrant wouldn’t be in the country. They only come in the…

— Donald Trump

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in…

— Sebastian Kurz

Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

— Ron Johnson

I think that was the smartest thing [immigration policy], he [Donald Trump] is done in his whole campaign there .

— Eric Bolling

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

— Elaine Chao

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

— Wolfgang Schauble

“I am from Afghanistan. I do not want to be refugee in Turkey or Greece. I am alone. I am fifteen.”

— Nadia Hashimi

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

— Paul Ryan

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should…

— Marvin Olasky

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.

— Donald Trump

Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now.

— Donald Trump

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

— Peter Jennings

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,

— Jose Antonio Vargas