Immigration Quotes · Page 26

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

— Ron Johnson

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in…

— Sebastian Kurz

Under my plan the undocumented or as you would say illegal immigrant wouldn’t be in the country. They only come in the…

— Donald Trump

Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.

— Jamal Khashoggi

“We’re immigrants. We get the job done. Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette me (at centre-stage)”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

— Anonymous

“Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.”

— Padma Lakshmi

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

— Joe Kaeser

Just as Government knows Brexit must not slam the door shut on our relationship with our European neighbours, it must not close…

— Heidi Allen

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked…

— Dominique Moceanu

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally…

— Heather Mac Donald

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of…

— Diana L. Eck

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants,…

— Alan Greenspan

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of…

— Kendrick Meek

Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people…

— Jimmy Carter

The fact is, since then, many killings,murders, crime, drugs pouring across the border, are money going out and the drugs coming in.…

— Donald Trump

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation…

— Junot Diaz

Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one…

— Zohran Mamdani

Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver's license? That's not going to be the end of the…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney…

— Hansi Lo Wang

American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of…

— Karan Mahajan

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida…

— Lawton Chiles

The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting.…

— Rush Limbaugh

...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of…

— George F. Kennan

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

— Deborah Kass

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

— Julien Clerc

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

— Charles Murray

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

— Philip Emeagwali

immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

— Arthur Kemp

We must work together in a bipartisan way to address our broken immigration system with comprehensive reform.

— Colin Allred

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

— Dick Mountjoy

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

— Kerry Kennedy

I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.

— Luther Strange

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Maybe in Luxembourg there's a need for new immigration, but in Italy, there's a need to help people have children.

— Matteo Salvini

Immigrant essential workers are integrated into our communities and clearly into our workforce.

— Alex Padilla

Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.

— Elizabeth Flock

They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. We need to build a wall.

— Donald Trump

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

— Katharine Viner

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang