Quotes About Immigration

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

My parents sacrificed everything because they wanted a better life for me and my little sister. That's why we came to the U.S. So it wasn't an option not to step up to those high expectations. So I didn't go to high school. There was an early entrance program at California State in Los Angeles, and I started college at 13.

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement organizations like HIAS, my parents were set up with jobs.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.

My position on immigration has been clear for a long time. I believe the federal government ought to do their job. You know, secure our borders. Come up with an immigration policy that Americans understand and people who want to come to this country understand.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as president. The executive branch enforces the law; it does not make it.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.