Immigration Quotes

• Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.

  

  Alex Sink
  • Important
  • Immigration
  • Reform

• I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Islamic

• In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Health
  • Immigration

• The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Policy

• What we're concerned about is massive immigration of unskilled workers, mostly from the Maghreb and Africa, which pulls down salaries in France.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Immigration

• ...immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.

  

  Arthur Kemp
  • Immigration
  • Issue
  • Countries

• If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Position
  • Office
  • Citizens

• What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • Wealth
  • Workers
  • Employers

• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Political
  • Economic

• The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

  

  George Francis Train
  • Enterprise
  • Settling
  • Railway

• I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.

  

  Lauren Southern
  • Immigration
  • Boat
  • Exists

• Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases. The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases. There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States. This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Security
  • Protect
  • Program

• I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Born
  • Latina
  • Aerobics

• Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand — will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

  

  Arthur Kemp
  • Issue
  • Determine
  • Civilisation

• America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

  

  George Will
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Arizona

• We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.

  

  Ayanna Pressley
  • Need
  • Immigration
  • Reform

• Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way.

  

  Raul Labrador
  • People
  • Employment
  • Citizenship

• One may oppose immigration. It is an opinion of one's own. But questioning the dignity of an immigrant is unacceptable. (...) I have not seen that these people the leaders of the Finns Party who have been convicted exactly of insulting dignity would have shown efficient regretting.

  

  Sauli Niinisto
  • Party
  • Regret
  • Immigration

• 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 GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Country
  • Security
  • Dangerous

• To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Immigration

• What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Immigration
  • Citizens
  • Immigrants

• We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

  

  Paul Nehlen
  • Education
  • Immigration
  • Policy

• There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

  

  Michael Bennet
  • Problem
  • Optimistic
  • Bipartisan

• All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Home
  • Reform
  • Amnesty

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