Immigration Quotes · Page 19

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

— Melanie Fiona

Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.

— Mark Meadows

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

— Sebastian Kurz

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

— George J. Mitchell

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

— Luis Gutierrez

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

— Thomas de Maiziere

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is…

— Jeb Bush

The Democrats' radicalism does not end with illegal immigration and health care. It extends into other aspects of their policy platforms.

— Kayleigh McEnany

Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in…

— Jo Cox

The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to…

— Barack Obama

For me, the most important issue in the Republican presidential contest is immigration and its effect on our national security. On that…

— Kris Kobach

The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater…

— Richard Grenell

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining…

— Alain de Benoist

What separates us Americans from the countries that so many immigrants are leaving is that we are a nation of laws -…

— Donald Trump

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on…

— Luis Gutierrez

Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration…

— Aviva Chomsky

“We’ve driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non…

— Robert Goddard

If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The…

— Milton Friedman

When we think about the issues that matter, obviously the news covers immigration, a lot. You might think immigration is the only…

— Soledad O'Brien

“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to…

— Slavoj Žižek

More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each…

— William J. Clinton

“We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and…

— Libba Bray

I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that…

— Rush Limbaugh

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

— Lou Barletta

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

— Ross Douthat

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

— Kemi Badenoch

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

— Geert Wilders

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

— Ismail Haniyeh

We will insure that other countries take their people back when they order them deported.

— Donald Trump

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

— Mette Frederiksen

We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

— Fernando Perez

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the…

— Mark Potok

We will end free movement of people and implement our own immigration policy that prioritises highly-skilled migrants.

— Suella Braverman

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

— Matteo Salvini

Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.

— Owen Jones

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

— Ted Nugent

There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should…

— Nigel Farage

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

— Jimmy O. Yang