Immigration Quotes · Page 47

Enforcing our immigration laws, and punishing those that blatantly ignore them, is critically important to maintain public safety and the rule of…

— Mike Johnson

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the…

— Ivan Krastev

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

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

— Gary Johnson

OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement…

— Pramila Jayapal

More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the…

— James Gray

“It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants––packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective…

— Zadie Smith

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

— Paul Watson

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as…

— Isabel Allende

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

— Justin Trudeau

I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking…

— Angelina Jolie

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

— Aravind Adiga

Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.

— Anderson Silva

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

— Erin O'Toole

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

— Barack Obama

We seem to be in a really interesting time, a time of weird change and values and choices, and "Who are you…

— Dave Gahan

We work with the Mexican authorities. We have our own intelligence architecture. And we are aware of the involvement of smuggling organizations…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

George W. Bush was interviewed by NBC. He was on the Today show and he was asked about President Trump's visa suspension.…

— Rush Limbaugh

There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down…

— Sam Graves

I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me…

— Greta Gerwig

My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and…

— Lenny Henry

The dream of Europe is a region of freedom and peace, of security, law, democracy, tolerance and mutual respect. If you look…

— Martin Schulz

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

— Martin Firrell

In Hollywood, most of the opportunities you get, as a Latino, are to play some version of an immigration story - which…

— Melissa Barrera

If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them…

— John McCain

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has…

— Denis Kearney

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening…

— John Oliver

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

— Paul Collier

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

— William J. Clinton

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create…

— Jeb Bush

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

— Roger Mahony

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his…

— Hillary Clinton

I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on…

— Avik Roy

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

— Alfred Russel Wallace

I see nothing easy in Washington. I see either analytically simple things that are politically complex or those that are politically complex…

— Henry Paulson

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal…

— Kenneth Rogoff

Donald Trump has a very radical idea, and that's that when we make changes to our immigration laws, the group we should…

— Stephen Miller