Immigration reform Quotes · Page 2

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

— Susan Collins

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

— Jeff Flake

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

— Jack Kingston

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

— Jeff Sessions

But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— David Vitter

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

— Ron Johnson

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

— Kerry Kennedy

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

— Bruce Braley

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some…

— Josh Earnest

Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such…

— Rashida Tlaib

Despite his critics, Rubio has skillfully managed the expectations of many conservatives and effectively made his case for immigration reform, while working…

— Mercedes Schlapp

It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue…

— Barack Obama

We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating…

— Diane Guerrero

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

— Jeff Bingaman

He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling…

— Ted Cruz

Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With…

— Michael McCaul

You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start…

— Lou Barletta

A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish…

— Bob Goodlatte

[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

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

I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done,…

— Charles Schumer

It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as…

— Eric Cantor

Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet…

— Xavier Becerra

Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years…

— Barack Obama

When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt…

— Barack Obama

If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and…

— Barack Obama

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are…

— Ted Cruz

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

— Lamar S. Smith

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

— Hank Johnson

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

— Dick Durbin

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

— Tom Harkin

If Donald Trump wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform, I will work with Donald Trump.

— Tom Perez

Instead of working to undo POTUS exec action, we need to workcollaboratively to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.

— Mazie Hirono

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

— Hillary Clinton

It is in our national interest for Congress to act on immigration reform in a comprehensive manner.

— Dan Lipinski

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top…

— Barack Obama