Quotes About Immigration

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.

In offering deals on immigration, infrastructure, and prison reform, President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready for compromise. But will Democrats take up his offer?

In the past, I have been an immigration reformer, not a restrictionist.

There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.