Quotes About Immigration

There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.

President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.

As a Democrat, it's easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.

We must end illegal immigration, period.

I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.

People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy.

Anybody that says I don't have any experience in immigration cases doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

It might sound strange coming from a home secretary - I'm a big fan of immigration and what it means for our country, in terms of how it makes us stronger.

We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.

Immigration has been good for this country; I know the value of it - hopefully I've given something back.

I'm against immigration.

I do think that we need more of a balance between merit-based and familial-based immigration.

We have to stop illegal immigration in order to ensure security in Europe.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

Even kids who haven't had firsthand experience with the immigration system, I want them to know how families are affected and what kind of system is in place.

Immigration is an emotional issue. And it ought to be an emotional issue because it affects people's lives.

We are not against immigration, but we want to have control on immigration. We want to decide who is allowed to come into Austria. We should not let human traffickers decide.

We never have been closed to immigration.

Even as evidence mounts that immigration is bolstering the British economy, the political consensus seems to be that bashing immigration boosts electoral fortunes.

We should be able to have a conversation about immigration; we should be able to have a conversation about what skills we want to have in the U.K. and whether we need to go out of the U.K. in order to get them to boost our economy, and I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about it.

Immigration is the major issue everywhere, and even the countries where it isn't the number one issue, it ends up becoming one.

I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.