Immigration Quotes · Page 30

We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.

— Luis Gutierrez

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented…

— Ana Castillo

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

— Roger Mahony

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

— Ro Khanna

We should be a nation that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and ensures that everyone gets a fair day in court.

— Diane Guerrero

“They died, Highness, even as they delivered those thirty thousand refugees to safety. They died, but they won.”

— Steven Erikson

We've got to have a system in place where we can control the number of people that are crossing the border.

— Young Kim

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

— Ron Johnson

We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With…

— Michael McCaul

I grew up in a town in France called Saint-Die, where there were many immigrants - Senegalese, Morrocans, Turks. My parents came…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

A Conservative government will set immigration policy within a wider strategy that meets the changing demographic make-up of Britain, taking full account…

— Dominic Grieve

“Know that no refugee does so because he believes that he wants to take advantage of your economy or steal your jobs.…

— Daniel D. Maurer

We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their…

— Alice Schwarzer

The facts [on immigration system ] aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them and…

— Donald Trump

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand.…

— Henry Cuellar

We will have a proper tracking system. Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never, ever left.…

— Donald Trump

“our home is not our refuge; God is our refuge. We nurture life in the face of death and leverage our homes…

— Gloria Furman

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're…

— Junot Diaz

I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees…

— Pope Francis

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of…

— Henry Bonilla

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the…

— Anzia Yezierska

Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is…

— Charles Paul

Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around…

— Roma Tearne

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

— Ted Nugent

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

— Michael Gove

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration. Stop the massive inflow of refugees.

— Donald Trump

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

— Marco Rubio

Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues

— Jack Goldstone

Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

— Pablo Alvarado

President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.

— Jan Schakowsky

The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.

— Ted Lieu

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

— Damian Green

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I come from a multicultural family. My wife's Thai. My children are half-Asian, half-Scottish; we're all immigrants.

— Jimmy Barnes

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

— Khaled Hosseini

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

— Milton Friedman

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

— Janet Napolitano