Immigration Quotes · Page 18

“Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It”

— Bobby Adair

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

— Lamar S. Smith

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love…

— Donald Trump

It's always good, when it comes to immigration, to always be paranoid. You can never be too paranoid.

— Ann Coulter

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

— Ted Nugent

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

— Andrew Lam

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

— Louise Brown

Bangladeshi illegal immigrants are a threat to the security of this nation.

— Amit Shah

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as…

— Jose Feliciano

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights.…

— Camila Cabello

I was an immigrant twice, once from Egypt to Israel. Israel opened her arms and took me in. And America opened her…

— Haim Saban

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our…

— Chris Chocola

It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there,…

— Edward Taylor

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I…

— Maurice Sendak

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an…

— Pete Seeger

In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it…

— London Breed

It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who…

— Paolo Gentiloni

At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years…

— Henry Cuellar

We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to…

— James M. Buchanan

Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they…

— Mara Liasson

“The experiment that we call America is a test of our character and our willingness to believe that we can have a…

— Bill Ong Hing

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

We're going to have people come into our country, but they're going to come in legally, legally.

— Donald Trump

We must have 'order at the border' and we must fix our immigration system.

— Tom Suozzi

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

— Allen West

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

— Geert Wilders

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

— Anthony Romero

Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

— Pete Hoekstra

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

— Filip Dewinter

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

— M.I.A

The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.

— Carl I. Hagen

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

— Richard Ojeda

The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

— Amitava Kumar

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

— Tom Tancredo

We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

— Jeff Sessions

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

— Elliott Carter

I'll stand with President Trump and get tough on illegal immigration.

— Matt Rosendale