Immigration Quotes · Page 34

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top…

— Barack Obama

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

— Junot Diaz

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

— Ruben Martinez

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

— Jim Ramstad

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

— Mark McKinnon

It is in our national interest for Congress to act on immigration reform in a comprehensive manner.

— Dan Lipinski

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

— Madeleine Albright

We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.

— Marine Le Pen

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

— Kevin de Leon

It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's…

— Anthony Weiner

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the…

— J. G. Ballard

There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working…

— Robert Mugabe

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need…

— Jane Goodall

What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I…

— Lucky Luciano

We're being told that America is a zero sum game - that the dreams of immigrants come at the expense of those…

— Reshma Saujani

If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that…

— John F. Kelly

“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma…

— Hagir Elsheikh

“The way the kids of immigrants heard about America, you would think it was not down the stairs and out the door…

— Rich Cohen

I think one of the reasons anti-immigration state laws start to happen is they happen in states where there is an enormous…

— Rilla Askew

People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme…

— Rush Limbaugh

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent...…

— Enoch Powell

We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me…

— Rush Limbaugh

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases. The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks…

— Alan Bersin

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

— Tom Bodett

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

— Junot Diaz

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

— Paul Bettany

Illegal aliens knew President Joe Biden would open our southern border wide open.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'

— Ry Cooder

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

— Katharine Viner

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

— Ross Douthat

It's worth remembering that immigrants come to this country to work, they don't come to get handouts.

— Mazie Hirono

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

— Maxime Bernier

I had a lot of ups and downs. Being an immigrant in this country is incredibly difficult.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee…

— Masiela Lusha

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you…

— Lawrence Durrell

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

— Emily Blunt

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“Immigration teaches you to bend. Courage is remembering who you are.”

— Angelika Regossi