Immigration Quotes (285 Quotes)


    Although the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition was founded nearly a decade ago because of the high costs border counties bear to incarcerate criminal undocumented aliens and provide emergency medical care to undocumented immigrants, we want to take this opportunity to remind Congress, and the nation, that immigration is only one issue that affects the border.

    California went from being a swing state to being a deep blue state -- a Democratic state -- because of the immigration issue and because a generation of Hispanics have turned against the Republican Party.

    I didn't think it would be such a big issue, but it's a big issue, let's face it. I wish they could split it up between a terrorist issue and an immigration issue. I can feel for the people, I guess it must be pretty bad down there (Mexico). In L.A., I would expect it, certain places in Texas. And the numbers We're not talking about a couple of thousand, we're talking about tens of thousands.

    The next few days could be a productive cooling off period, when senators work out their differences and commit to getting something done on immigration reform, but we will see. We hope that they will come back to Washington committed to reform, because we need it this year.



    Illegal immigration is bankrupting states along the border, but this is about more than economics -- we're placing our national security at risk. Drug lords and violent gangs like MS-13 are streaming into the U.S. from Mexico. Terrorists are also walking in unopposed our southwestern border is littered with Arabic papers and Islamic prayer rugs.


    Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.

    The provocation ended up being even more substantial because the thing was actually passed. What that showed is that immigration can be a mobilizing issue for Hispanic voters in a negative sense, that they will respond to a perception that the entire population is being demonized, or that the measures are excessively harsh.

    Members of Congress, especially Republicans, are beginning to realize that around the country, even among their supporters, they're being viewed as dysfunctional, unable to get anything done. So I think the Republicans are starting to come together, at least a little in the Senate on immigration.


    These are very important findings that come at a critical moment in the immigration debate. What the study indicates is that if we view the contribution of immigrants to the total economy there may be important gains to all workers that have previously been ignored.

    Attempts to protect the current level of immigration by wrapping it in the language of tradition or humanitarianism generally distort both history and the practical realities of our own era.



    The sheriff's idea is to empower his investigators to do the work of immigration officers to help get dangerous criminals off the streets. Our plan will also provide for our jail staff to screen every individual who is booked into the Orange County Jail and if they are not supposed to be in this country, they will be turned over to federal authorities.


    The president has long talked about the importance of having an immigration policy that matches willing workers with willing employers. ... It's important for America to be a welcoming society. We are a nation of immigrants, and we're better for it.

    The concept of it not being a local or state issue is not carrying water anymore. Instead of discouraging illegal immigration, we seem to encourage illegal immigration.

    It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

    There is a sense that states are trying to be responsive to the public and its frustration with the size of the illegal immigrant population. It is happening across the board. Traditionally, immigration came to the big six states now almost every state is grappling with it.

    We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.


    I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

    The rhetoric, I think, is more charged now and has been over the last five or six years than I remember it over the last 40 years. There's always been disagreements but you always had negotiations over hijacking, the immigration agreement, drug agencies.

    It the Enlightenment is clearly the foundation of the modern world. Almost everything we are arguing about at the moment - whether it's the religious hatred law and free speech, immigration, the movement of peoples, goods and services and what that does to national identity, or the proper limits of the state - go back to the positions first set out in the Enlightenment.




    It is time to get the troops out of Iraq and put them on the Mexican border. Thousands of Mexicans and other illegal aliens from other countries come into this country every day. This is an invasion, not immigration.


    Julie Myers is well-respected within the law enforcement community and highly qualified to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We will work with the Senate to ensure her confirmation.

    This program is not about immigration. The program is about whether the situation along both our borders northern and southern and our coasts, if it poses a problem in our war on terrorism It's a very important topic for America right now.

    He hasn't been in a position for some time to press successfully most of the controversial issues on which the country is divided, and there's substantial opposition in Washington. We saw that on Social Security reform. We're likely to see it on immigration reform. There are enormous obstacles in the proposal to make the tax cuts permanent.



    Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

    While no Australian citizen will respond positively to the extensive damage to the immigration detention centers ... it is now time to consider a more effective management approach than mandatory detention,


    The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

    There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

    The middle ground gets lost. Anybody who talks about a sensible middle ground gets devoured by the extremes on both sides. It's either immigration is a plague, or wide-open, unhindered immigration and wide-scale amnesty is the answer.


    It is in the national interest that CAFTA passes. It is good for our national security in supporting these fledgling democracies at our back door. It is good for our effort against illegal immigration. It is good for our economy,

    To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees husbands routinely do it to wives.

    This poll reflects local concerns about immigrants gathering on street corners, waiting for jobs, or packed into illegal housing and the like. Red state, blue state, and purple state voters agree Illegal immigration is a serious problem.



    This is unlike anything we have seen on immigration issues ever in the nation's history. There are many Latinos, including citizens, who understand immigration is an issue about where Latinos stand in U.S. society, and believe this is an important issue.

    He's got a position on immigration that puts him at loggerheads with the conservative wing of his party. They've been suspicious of him for years, and his position on this issue only adds to that suspicion.



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