Immigration Quotes · Page 36

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

— Azim Premji

It was only when I was elected onto Westminster City Council that I began to discover the downside of mass immigration.

— Nick Boles

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

— Angelina Jolie

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

— Anonymous

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.

— Phil Gramm

“{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.”

— Andrea Bouchaud

“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the…

— DaShanne Stokes

I see neither the sense nor the need to stick to an immigration figure devised nearly a decade ago, which has never…

— Sajid Javid

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you…

— Jai Courtney

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially…

— Peter Hitchens

The government rightly resisted pressure to accept Free Movement of people from E.U. countries, to allow us to regain control over our…

— Dominic Raab

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal…

— Kenneth Rogoff

“At a time when there are more refugees than ever, the rich world has turned its back on them. Our myths and…

— Ben Rawlence

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should…

— John Shadegg

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always…

— Donald Trump

When we have a better, more social, more responsible, less egotistical, less corrupt system, Mexico will be able to give work to…

— Carlos Fuentes

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this…

— Greg Ip

The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?'…

— Chaim Weizmann

Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If…

— Sandra Cisneros

We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of…

— Jan Brewer

I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and…

— Jacob Epstein

I am surprised at the number of Puerto Ricans that are moving out of Puerto Rico still. I thought that, by now,…

— Oscar Lopez Rivera

I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put…

— Junot Diaz

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

— Hank Johnson

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

— Geert Wilders

On our Southern border, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of illegal aliens into our country.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

I have traveled around Minnesota and addressed many issues, and immigration is one of those issues.

— Tim Pawlenty

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

— Nina Fedoroff

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

— Donald Trump

My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.

— Eric Garcetti

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

[Barak] Obama's immigration behavior, executive amnesty, this DREAMer stuff - everything he's doing - is outside the law.

— Rush Limbaugh

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

— Anonymous

There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.

— Heather Mac Donald

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

— Bruce Braley

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for.

— Pramila Jayapal

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

— Anonymous

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

— Kris Kobach