Angela Kelley Quotes (9 Quotes)

People are going to review this not in terms of whose name is on the bill but whether it works.

They're telling the feds they're falling asleep at the wheel, ... Such pressure from the bottom up will make politicians see they can't hide under their desks anymore.

I don't expect this is going to be taken particularly seriously on Capitol Hill. The debate has moved far beyond where Representative Hayworth is.

It is neither realistic nor desirable to round up and deport 11 million people, but the Specter proposal will exclude many undocumented people from ever becoming part of America's future, thereby perpetuating the problem of illegality the bill must solve.

We've got 500,000 people coming to the U.S. illegally and they are coming to work. They aren't coming to get their nails done. They are coming to do people's nails.

It takes people who've been here since before January '04 and it gives them a conditional status that leads to nowhere. That seems like it's going to be a big slap in the face to the community that's been reeling from the wall that was built last year.

It reflects an understandable frustration, at the local level, that we've got a broken immigration system, I don't think it is going to contribute one iota to stopping people from coming to this country.

This is a half-hearted and half-baked solution to the problem of illegal immigration.

Pew seems to be giving us the data that people come when there are jobs, when the economy is strong, ... It (the report) gives breathing room for policymakers struggling to come up with a solution.