Immigration Quotes · Page 20

“He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.”

— Stephen Baxter

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

— Gwen Ifill

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

— Conan O'Brien

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this…

— Chuck Woolery

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

— Scott Peters

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

— Anonymous

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

— Kris Kobach

I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the…

— Agathe Snow

As the proud son of immigrants from Mexico, I'm honored to be the first Latino to serve as Chair of the Senate…

— Alex Padilla

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

— Denis Kearney

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies…

— James Surowiecki

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,…

— Vic Mensa

I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal…

— Donald Trump

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a…

— Cameron Sinclair

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision,…

— Jorge Ramos

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Avik Roy

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because…

— Barack Obama

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

— Henry Paulson

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…

— Christopher Isherwood

I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules…

— Michael Chertoff

Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status ... I believe that most Americans feel…

— John McCain

All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.

— Faisal I of Iraq

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

— Danny Glover

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

— Lamar S. Smith

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

— Wendy Long

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

My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

— J. B. Pritzker

There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.

— Heather Mac Donald

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

— Bruce Braley

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for.

— Pramila Jayapal

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

— Rush Limbaugh

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

— Anonymous

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

— Hank Johnson

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

— Geert Wilders

On our Southern border, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens into our country.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene