Quotes About Immigration

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

It would be a travesty, in my opinion, to treat those who violated our laws to get here much better than those who have patiently waited their turn to come to the United States the right way.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'

My grandmother, when she was young, would've walked past shops where some folks had out a sign that said, 'No Mexicans or dogs allowed.'

One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

We're giving those benefits away, which we earn as citizens of this nation, of being legalized citizens.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

My parents did not have a better life, they went to Australia to provide opportunities for me to have a better life.

Foreign students... big part of our economy.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford.

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

We could secure the border in 72 hours. We could. We just don't have the political will in Washington.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

We must secure the border, and we must not allow people to come into this country when we do not know who they are.