Immigration Quotes
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I think when Justin Trudeau tweets - and Justin Trudeau tweets just like Donald Trump tweets. He occasionally just tweets things. And when he tweets that we're welcoming everyone, I mean, we're not a utopia for immigration as well. I mean, we have all sorts of issues that are very similar to the United States.
Rick Mercer
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Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
Blake Farenthold
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I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.
Geert Wilders
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
Milton Friedman
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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
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Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse group. And we care about a lot more than just immigration, though we're passionate about having sensible immigration policies that don't go after our families.
Eric Garcetti
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Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country
Pablo Alvarado
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Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas Sowell
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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
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We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.
Paul Nehlen
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I'll stand with President Trump and get tough on illegal immigration.
Matt Rosendale
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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
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I am more than an immigration activist.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration.
Luis Gutierrez
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I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.
Rick Perry
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I'm concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a 'comprehensive approach' to immigration taken care of 'once and for all.'
John Fleming
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While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue.
Luis Gutierrez
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Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.
George Packer
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In Minnesota, we tend to be a little more open to immigration.
Amy Klobuchar
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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
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I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
Cedric Richmond
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Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.
Richard Lamm
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We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.
Tony Blair