Immigration Quotes · Page 29

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

— Conor Oberst

Everyone talks about immigrants taking jobs, but there are a lot of jobs that America needs.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

— Alan Bersin

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

— David Ben-Gurion

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

— Marine Le Pen

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

— Larry Fessenden

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in…

— Hassan Blasim

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

— Jeb Bush

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to…

— Isabel Wilkerson

[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive…

— James Madison

We need to believe that we can achieve progress in fixing our broken immigration system, prioritizing smart border security investments, cracking down…

— Abigail Spanberger

There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live…

— Vivienne Westwood

We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating…

— Diane Guerrero

It's amazing that Europe says, "What are we going to do with these refugees?" It's as if it doesn't realize that being…

— Michael Hudson

If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that…

— Joe Arpaio

For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of…

— Donald Trump

As the daughter of immigrants, I'm willing to work with my colleagues to implement common-sense policies, but it must start with securing…

— Nicole Malliotakis

The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which…

— Thomas Keating

Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if…

— Barack Obama

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories…

— Barack Obama

We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in…

— Barack Obama

One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today,…

— Barack Obama

My dad is a minister and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their…

— John Boyega

The truth is, the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be…

— Donald Trump

Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

— Mitt Romney

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

— Theresa May

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

— Brad Schneider

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

— Howard Dean

I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.

— Kris Kobach

Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

— Peter Brimelow

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

What I have always thought is that there should be a proper national conversation about what kind of immigration policies we have.

— Claire Fox

“More beautiful than marrying the man you love, Rozalka, is the joy of loving the man you married.”

— Sarah Brazytis

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

— Luis Gutierrez

It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

— Andrew Lam

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

— Alek Wek

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the…

— Heather Wilson

My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration.

— Kris Kobach

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

— Aaron Klein