Immigration Quotes

I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty, that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Stop illegal immigration. Stop these trade deals that are taking jobs from Americans. Build an economy that works for the people at the bottom, not just the ones at the top.

Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

Both parties want it now. They want comprehensive immigration reform, and they want open borders.

Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.

To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

Hillary Clinton and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the way to evolve, to make people better.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

That's why I call Barack Obama a petulant child. He's doing it on guns. He did it on immigration. He's done it on "Obama care."

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

Tomorrow night President Obama will announce his new immigration plan. Obama's favorite part of his new immigration plan is that he gets to emigrate to another country. He's tired of all this.

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

Arnold Schwarzenegger got into a huge debate with Arianna Huffington about immigration - going back and forth - finally immigration came in and hauled them both away.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.