Quotes About Asylum

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'll understand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.

El mundo no es más que un manicomio sin verja

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Deporting asylum seekers back to violence does not reflect the values of our country.

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

The word "deterrence" comes from the language of crime prevention, and its use reinforces the view of asylum seekers as criminals.

It took ten years before they discovered half the world was crazy and some of the people in the asylum were fashioning nuclear weapons.

Tu les as vus livrer le malheureux qui croyait au droit d'asile.

To go to seances with good intentions is like holding a smoking concert in a powder-magazine on behalf of an orphan asylum.'4

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

Under the Obama administration, 80-90 percent of individuals making asylum claims with children were released after being processed and given a court date. Inevitably, they started living in the U.S. illegally for years to come. This is the policy the Trump administration is trying to change.

I have a little secret thing I do - maybe not secret because I'm telling all of you. But when when reporters are getting really loud, or they're starting to ask crazy questions, I just slow down my pace, and I talk very quietly, and I treat them like I'm an orderly sometimes in an insane asylum.

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.

Asylum under the traditional definition doesn't necessarily include people coming here for economic reasons, but I think one of the biggest things we need to do is expand legal immigration so people can do that legally.