Immigration Quotes

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the best, it's the best and the toughest.

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop.

Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what's emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

Some people would say we're already under attack by aliens - not space aliens, but illegal aliens.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.

Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

I support legal immigration.

No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration.

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.

In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate gets a little different.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are going to flow into the country. And it's going to be a disaster.

Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to take care of our workers.

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.