Immigration Quotes · Page 39

There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.

— Michael Pena

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

— Kirstjen Nielsen

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

— Oscar Handlin

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

— Nigel Farage

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

— Stephen Colbert

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

— Thomas Malthus

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

— Lamar S. Smith

I think our immigrants are a strength for us in San Diego. I think it's a strength in our communities in California.…

— Kevin Faulconer

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our…

— Bruce Feiler

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of…

— Nikki Haley

There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin…

— Wilton Daniel Gregory

This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of…

— George F. Kennan

I truly do believe that President Trump making decisions to pause our various immigration programs and refugee programs for a period of…

— Mike Pence

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should…

— John Linder

We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies…

— Pramila Jayapal

“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of…

— Zachary Lazar

If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource…

— James M. Buchanan

In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they…

— Yasmine Elmasri

Indeed, many of the illegal crossers who have entered the country in the last two years after being detained have actually been…

— Alan Bersin

The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to…

— Ai Weiwei

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community,…

— Lori Lightfoot

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process…

— Ken Calvert

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still…

— Richard Benjamin

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love…

— Donald Trump

It's always good, when it comes to immigration, to always be paranoid. You can never be too paranoid.

— Ann Coulter

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

— Ted Nugent

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

— Andrew Lam

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

— Louise Brown

Bangladeshi illegal immigrants are a threat to the security of this nation.

— Amit Shah

We must have 'order at the border' and we must fix our immigration system.

— Tom Suozzi

We're going to have people come into our country, but they're going to come in legally, legally.

— Donald Trump

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

— Allen West

America is a nation of immigrants who came to this country seeking freedom and opportunity.

— Laphonza Butler

“there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall”

— Ambrose Bierce

Its possible to shape a law that upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

— Barack Obama

For those who are here illegally and not following the rules, we need to send them home.

— Brian Kemp

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

— Michael Grimm

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

— Ed Davey

“Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It”

— Bobby Adair