Immigration Quotes · Page 22

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

— Jeb Bradley

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

— Tamara Mellon

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

— John Culberson

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

— Malcolm Turnbull

I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

— Mitt Romney

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

— Tania Bruguera

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

— James Madison

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

— Noam Chomsky

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle…

— Maryanne Trump Barry

“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of…

— Hannah V. Sawyerr

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and…

— Keir Starmer

I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit…

— Maxime Bernier

A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in…

— Mahmoud Abbas

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with…

— Barry McCaffrey

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only…

— Ban Ki-moon

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the…

— Tony Blair

It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's…

— George F. Kennan

I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's…

— Patrick Leahy

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration…

— Louise Erdrich

You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the…

— Rush Limbaugh

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research,…

— Bill Gates

“The sense that I'd fled my Jewishness in Odessa added painful new pressure to the dilemma I would face at sixteen. That's…

— Anya von Bremzen

To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens…

— William J. Clinton

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.

— Mike Pence

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

— Tom Harkin

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

— Ted Lieu

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

— Oscar Handlin

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

— Nigel Farage

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

— Stephen Colbert

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

— Thomas Malthus

There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.

— Michael Pena

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

— Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum