Immigration Quotes · Page 28

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

— Steve Kornacki

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

— Robert Irvine

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

— Amy Bloom

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

— Jeff Sessions

The refugees on the road are in the hands of fate, with their lives at stake.

— Robert Capa

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion

— Paul Soglin

Simply put, President Obama's immigration strategy is all about politics and getting credit rather than about families and people.

— Mark Meadows

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

— Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are…

— Donald Trump

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the…

— Donald Trump

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public…

— Jamie Fellner

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our…

— Donald Trump

Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very…

— Jeff Sessions

When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in…

— Barack Obama

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

— Jeff Bingaman

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles…

— George W. Bush

I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to…

— Bill Gates

“Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me…

— Vilém Flusser

[T]hese people have shown a remarkable ability, ladies and gentlemen, to cross borders, boundaries - they get anywhere they want to go.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I introduced bill saying we need more security, we need more scrutiny. Once again, Marco [Rubio] opposed this. So Marco can't have…

— Ted Cruz

Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions…

— Mike Lee

The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal…

— Barbara Jordan

I have fought back against voices out there that want to curtail immigration, because immigration is critical to our success.

— Erin O'Toole

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

— Milana Vayntrub

“A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.”

— M.R. Carey

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

— Lamar Alexander

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

— Samuel P. Huntington

But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.

— Hillary Clinton

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

— Rick Santorum

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

— Chris Cleave

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

— Rupert Murdoch

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

— John Lydon

If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.

— Nayib Bukele

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.

— Gladys Berejiklian

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

— Barack Obama

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

“If it was the Border Patrol’s job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.”

— Luis Alberto Urrea