Immigration Quotes - Page 8

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty.

I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on healthcare, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill.

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.