Immigration Quotes · Page 23

With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.

— Amanda Foreman

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

— Wolfgang Schauble

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

— Elaine Chao

“I am from Afghanistan. I do not want to be refugee in Turkey or Greece. I am alone. I am fifteen.”

— Nadia Hashimi

For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.

— Donald Trump

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to…

— Donald Trump

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad…

— Andrew Lam

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Arizona just became the 15th state to approve medical marijuana. So I give it three days before they stop caring about the…

— Jimmy Fallon

Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal…

— Kate Brown

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to…

— Matt Rosendale

I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted and in…

— Donald Trump

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we…

— Eric D. Thomas

If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really…

— Michael Bloomberg

“What’s your status now?” the legislator asked them. “I’m undocumented,” one Brazilian student answered, bewildered. “Why don’t you start the process to…

— Aviva Chomsky

People come here to get educated. What's happening now, we educate them and once they have their degrees, we send them home.…

— Rush Limbaugh

That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were…

— Steve King

The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll…

— Rush Limbaugh

“a man named Dalton, a District 10 refugee who’d made it to 13 on foot a few years ago, leaked the real…

— Suzanne Collins

If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee…

— Mandy Patinkin

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should…

— Marvin Olasky

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

— Paul Ryan

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

— Peter Jennings

Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now.

— Donald Trump

I deserved the National Award for 'Border,' but got it for 'Refugee.'

— Anu Malik

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

— Karla Souza

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

— Phyllis Schlafly

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

— Stephen Ambrose

“growth solely accounted for by immigration – led to the usual strains”

— Douglas Murray

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

— Meghan McCain

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

— Lisa Papademetriou

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

— Ruchi Sanghvi

I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

— Geert Wilders

I've never been in a place where I've walked in the street and actually feel home, where I don't feel like a…

— Luol Deng

This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.

— Eugenio Derbez