Quotes About Immigration

The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

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.

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

I think the elites who have done nothing about it, who don't want a wall and don't care that the border is illegal, they see this as a threat.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.