Asylum seekers Quote by Pramila Jayapal

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

— Sajid Javid

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a…

— Kirstjen Nielsen

Journalists casually use terms like crossing the border illegally when referring to asylum seekers - when in fact there is no law that says…

— Masha Gessen

Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to…

— Sharice Davids

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

— Chris Cleave

I believe it is mutually beneficial and humane to let migrants pursue asylum claims in their home country rather than in the United States,…

— Young Kim

We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back.…

— Paolo Gentiloni

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

— Dan Crenshaw

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the…

— Jacky Rosen

Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you…

— Charles Schumer

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

— Alan Bersin

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum…

— Glenn Greenwald