Immigration Quotes · Page 21

I have traveled around Minnesota and addressed many issues, and immigration is one of those issues.

— Tim Pawlenty

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

— Nina Fedoroff

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

— Donald Trump

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

— Eric Garcetti

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

— Amala Akkineni

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

— Dick Durbin

The lives of immigrants living in our country today and those seeking asylum are urgent.

— Laphonza Butler

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

— Azim Premji

This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is,…

— Keir Starmer

“United States... on the one hand this is a country of egalitarian promise, a land of opportunity for millions of immigrants of…

— Thomas Piketty

Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far…

— Richard Thornton

My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get…

— Chrystia Freeland

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to…

— Ken Liu

When you see illegals and people who aren't citizens and they're on the registration rolls ... We can be babies, but you…

— Donald Trump

By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless tax dollars, and that's so important because the tax - the…

— Donald Trump

By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply…

— Paul Samuelson

If your policy is immigration, you're gonna have a finite number, and you want the best people you can get. It's no…

— Rush Limbaugh

If America is to be the land of opportunity and the beacon of hope that we claim, our immigration policies must be…

— Sharice Davids

At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In…

— Sergio Troncoso

“American government does not care whether you are a one-day-old baby who was brought here and ended up illegal or whether you…

— Imbolo Mbue

There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive…

— Marco Rubio

I believe that the mistakes that we made in Europe in the last decades by allowing so much mass immigration from Islamic…

— Geert Wilders

It was only when I was elected onto Westminster City Council that I began to discover the downside of mass immigration.

— Nick Boles

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

— Angelina Jolie

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

— Phil Gramm

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

— Anonymous

“{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.”

— Andrea Bouchaud

“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the…

— DaShanne Stokes

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

— Michael Rosbash

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

— Adrian Beltre

“the worst subsistence humanism promotes lies in refugee of denigration on mere inventions for their own brothers”

— Abdul Rehman

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

— David Dewhurst

I was working on refugee issues in 1993, as the refugee coordinator for the Horn of Africa.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

— Mary Pilon

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

— Alex Padilla

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

— Charlie Kirk