Immigration Quotes · Page 35

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

— Tom Harkin

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

— Ted Lieu

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

— John Culberson

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

— Malcolm Turnbull

I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

— Mitt Romney

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

— Tania Bruguera

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

— James Madison

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

— Noam Chomsky

Our priorities must be to continue to secure our border, strengthen our legal immigration system, and protect jobs for hardworking Americans.

— Bill Hagerty

I'm constantly amazed when I talk with people in the international stage and I refer to immigrants or refugees as new Canadians.…

— Justin Trudeau

To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that…

— Simu Liu

“The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

If we're willing to accept unlimited immigration in order to keep wages low and corporate profits high, we should just say so…

— Jan C. Ting

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like…

— Al Franken

Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to…

— Dick Durbin

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction…

— Bob Barr

There's tremendous crime and illegal immigration is just incredible. As far as Rubio, he's very weak on immigration, you know, I have…

— Donald Trump

I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country…

— Halima Aden

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

— Mike Lee

What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly…

— Pat Buchanan

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order.…

— Mitt Romney

This is exactly the kind of thing that Trump supporters are fed up with about the Republican Party, how easy it is…

— Rush Limbaugh

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the…

— Juan Williams

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

— Adrian Beltre

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

— Michael Rosbash

“the worst subsistence humanism promotes lies in refugee of denigration on mere inventions for their own brothers”

— Abdul Rehman

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

— David Dewhurst

I was working on refugee issues in 1993, as the refugee coordinator for the Horn of Africa.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

— Jim Goldberg

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

— Mary Pilon

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

— Alex Padilla

For years, elites in both political parties have ignored the illegal immigration crisis growing on America's southern border.

— Charlie Kirk

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

— Jeb Bradley

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

— Tamara Mellon

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

— Amala Akkineni

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

— Dick Durbin

The lives of immigrants living in our country today and those seeking asylum are urgent.

— Laphonza Butler