Best Immigration Sayings

720 Immigration quotes by 350 unique authors

On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about 250,000 to 300,000,… — Pat Buchanan
Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened… — Jimmy Carter
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration,… — Michael Chertoff
The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or… — Michael Chertoff
So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that… — Michael Chertoff
We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't… — Michael Chertoff
How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have… — Lawton Chiles
There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people… — Henry Cisneros
Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal… — William J. Clinton
I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are… — William J. Clinton
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens. — William J. Clinton
[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay… — William J. Clinton
Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace;… — William J. Clinton
It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to… — William J. Clinton
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from… — William J. Clinton
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in… — William J. Clinton
All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of… — William J. Clinton
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for… — William J. Clinton
I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility.… — William J. Clinton
What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne… — William J. Clinton
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants. — William J. Clinton
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration. — William J. Clinton
We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately… — William J. Clinton
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. — William J. Clinton

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