Quotes About Immigration

Trump's policies are a mix of fairly traditional things. Even his immigration stuff isn't really that new.

Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

Immigration policy isn't really what we at HHS do.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

We must give Trump credit for asking many politically incorrect questions and challenging mainstream Republican dogma on immigration.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who want to label London's global attraction a flaw rather than a strength.

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

The states have never had a voice when it comes to immigration or population policy. I think that needs to change.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.