Quotes About Immigration

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Nothing is more infuriating to me than the way the media and political parties conflate Hispanic-Americans and illegal immigrants. We are not one and the same, and our interests and priorities are often very different.

First and foremost, immigration is important to me. I think immigration has implications for everything else that is done. So securing the border, that would be priority one for me. That is, to me, most important.

While low-skilled immigrants have a place in our economy, a greater priority needs to be placed on attracting high-skilled immigrants to match the economy's needs.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry, from agriculture and education to health care, domestic work, construction, food processing, technology, and many more.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.

I don't believe in open borders, I don't think that would work. I think economically they're a disaster. Therefore there's nothing wrong with strong borders.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

Sanctuary city policies disrespect the rule of law in this country.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

In fact, building a wall from sea to shining sea would be the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.