Top 100 Immigration Is Quotes
#1. The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
James Gray
#2. Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.
Rush Limbaugh
#3. It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
Grover Cleveland
#4. This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."
Jay Leno
#5. In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.
Richard Benjamin
#6. I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
John Barrasso
#8. Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
David R. Brower
#9. After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.
Marco Rubio
#10. Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.
Ruben Martinez
#11. 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.
Grover Norquist
#12. I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.
Akhil Sharma
#13. Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
Timothy Murphy
#14. I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,
Jose Antonio Vargas
#15. Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.
Aleksandar Hemon
#16. The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.
Michael Badnarik
#17. Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories.
Cristina Henriquez
#18. Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
Gary Johnson
#19. We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.
Donald Trump
#20. I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.
Gloria Steinem
#21. Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
Jon Kyl
#22. Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
Jeb Bush
#23. Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
Eva Longoria
#24. There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#25. My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.
George Washington
#26. Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.
Geoffrey Blainey
#27. There's tremendous crime and illegal immigration is just incredible. As far as Rubio, he's very weak on immigration, you know, I have great relations with Mexico and I love the Mexican people, and the spirit of the Mexican people. These are people just pouring across the border.
Donald Trump
#28. Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
#29. Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.
Dave Reichert
#30. Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
Mark McKinnon
#31. I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.
Stefan Molyneux
#32. People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.
Esmeralda Santiago
#33. Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
Sam Brownback
#34. Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.
Marco Rubio
#35. Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
Gwen Ifill
#36. My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.
Ann Wagner
#37. And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.
Marco Rubio
#38. In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.
A.A. Gill
#39. Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar
#40. Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
Paul Watson
#41. The American people don't trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control. And we can do that. We know what it takes to do that.
Marco Rubio
#42. I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
Conrad Black
#43. Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#45. Reason Democrats support immigration is because of how
Ann Coulter
#46. As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.
Jose Andres
#47. Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
Sam Yagan
#48. Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
Roger Wicker
#49. I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
Martin Firrell
#50. Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.
Rush Limbaugh
#51. I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.
Rush Limbaugh
#52. I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#53. No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
Clayton Cramer
#54. Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.
Marine Le Pen
#55. If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
George Will
#56. The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.
James Howard Kunstler
#57. I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?
Joe Arpaio
#58. Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
Jeb Bush
#59. Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.
Margaret Hodge
#60. The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.
Steve King
#61. How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.
Jeff Sessions
#62. It's striking how so many immigration activists don't seem to particularly like this country. They tell us that America is a teeming mass of racist, sexist, homophobic bigots. But then they insist on bringing the rest of the world to live here.
Ann Coulter
#63. Marco Rubio, I think, will be president some day. Whether 2016 is his time, time will tell. He embraced immigration reform. He seems to have backed off. I'll let him explain why.
Lindsey Graham
#64. 'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.
Michelle Malkin
#65. It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Luis Gutierrez
#66. America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
#67. The constant cry is that you belong here, or you make yourself belong, or you must go. (1998: 319)
Chang-rae Lee
#68. Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington
#69. Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets ... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.
Zadie Smith
#70. The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.
Gregory Stock
#71. Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.
Jeff Sessions
#72. Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
John Barrasso
#73. Immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.
Arthur Kemp
#74. I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.
E. J. Dionne
#75. I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.
Carly Fiorina
#76. I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law ... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.
Ronald Reagan
#77. Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?
Rush Limbaugh
#78. It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
Emanuel Celler
#79. One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.
Theresa May
#80. Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.
Russell Pearce
#81. What is it about me that gets them all crying? It's not the end of the world.
Diane Samuels
#82. As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.
Rupert Murdoch
#83. The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life.
Michelle Malkin
#84. We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
Marsha Blackburn
#85. The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
Bob Dole
#86. It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.
Janet Napolitano
#87. Tomorrow night President Obama will announce his new immigration plan. Obama's favorite part of his new immigration plan is that he gets to emigrate to another country. He's tired of all this.
Conan O'Brien
#88. [Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there.
John Kasich
#89. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.
Andrew Nikiforuk
#90. 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.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#91. A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.
Brock Yates
#92. Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.
Jan C. Ting
#93. The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
Xavier Becerra
#94. Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.
Tom Tancredo
#95. We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short ... of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.
George H. W. Bush
#96. I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.
James Joyce
#97. A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.
Barack Obama
#99. The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
Bill Gates
#100. I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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