Immigration Quotes 2017

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. John Barrasso


There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come. Linda Ronstadt


Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. Jan C. Ting


Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship. Joe Baca


A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives. Jose Antonio Vargas


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


Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. Thomas Sowell


The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them. Nelson A. Miles


There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration. Ted Cruz


Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. Marco Rubio


Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that. Annalee Newitz


We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do. David Axelrod


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


We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't. Kiran Desai


Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. Marco Rubio


Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life. Jan C. Ting


I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. Newt Gingrich


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


Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here. Ben Shapiro


The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate. Jeff Sessions


I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. Bill Richardson