Immigration Quotes

• The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • American
  • Immigration

• We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.

  

  Michael McCaul
  • Thinking
  • Reform
  • Urgency

• Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Immigration

• Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Control
  • Resources
  • Resolving

• Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • Resources
  • Bottom
  • Consume

• I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Son
  • Commitment
  • Immigration

• Naming me 'Twinkle' was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!'

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Star

• Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Strong
  • Immigration

• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Friends
  • Immigration

• As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • House
  • Focus
  • Immigration

• I live in Arizona. I think the Hispanic people are amazing. I think when people talk about illegal immigration... it does them a disservice.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Live
  • Amazing

• We must fix our immigration system so we control who comes and goes, and that starts by securing our southern border.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Control
  • Immigration

• I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Believe
  • America
  • Mean

• Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • Stronger
  • Population

• Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

  

  Pablo Alvarado
  • Country
  • Immigration

• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Community
  • Groups
  • Bullying

• Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Help
  • Immigration

• I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Immigration

• And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Drug
  • Immigration

• I'm not anti-Muslim; I'm not anti-immigration.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Immigration

• We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Victory
  • Immigration

• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Career
  • Politician
  • Legislation

• For years, we have underestimated the challenges of mass immigration.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Challenges
  • Immigration
  • Underestimated

• I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

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