Migrants Quotes · Page 2

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

— Marco Rubio

The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.

— Abi Morgan

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call…

— Cristina García

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a…

— Amin Maalouf

We will end free movement of people and implement our own immigration policy that prioritises highly-skilled migrants.

— Suella Braverman

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

— Caitlin Flanagan

I will continue sending migrants home until the last migrant reunites with his family and loved ones.

— Sonu Sood

The Biden Administration's broken border policies force us to take migrants at their word about who they are and where they're from.

— John E. James

Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants?…

— Vladimir Putin

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the…

— Barbara Jordan

I went all out to help these migrants because I was a migrant, too, who came to Mumbai with a lot of…

— Sonu Sood

When labor migration is properly managed, it is a conduit for skills and wages to flow where they are most needed. It…

— Guy Ryder

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian…

— Stephen Harper

I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the…

— Sonu Sood

We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to…

— Steve King

There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live…

— Vivienne Westwood

“In the history of the evolution of the family, you and the millions of other migrants like you represent an ongoing proliferation…

— Mohsin Hamid

Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have…

— Pope Francis

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Pope Francis

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of…

— Pauline Hanson

“The stepped-up patrols began last October after 366 migrants fleeing African countries drowned when their boat capsized a mile from Sicily. After…

— Anonymous

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in…

— Ruth First

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

— Luis Valdez

You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the…

— Liz Kendall

People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

— Liz Kendall

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

— Laila Lalami

Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Stopping and returning illegal migrants to their countries of origin must become standard procedure.

— Sebastian Kurz

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far…

— Tony Blair

Democrats encouraged a porous southern border because they saw migrants and their American-born children as a source of future political support.

— Charlie Kirk

We need to invest in knowing who the good guys and bad guys are, and stop this blanket war on migrants. It's…

— Jasmine Crockett

I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.

— Matteo Salvini

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

— Richard Leakey

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

— John F. Kennedy

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

— Sadiq Khan

We're a whole country full of migrants - we need each other, and we should help each other.

— Jimmy Barnes

Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the…

— Dan Crenshaw