Quotes About Immigration

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

I support legal immigration.

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration.

I'm a big believer in family-based immigration.