Gail Collins Quotes About Immigration

Quotes about: Immigration

• If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Party, Believe

  "An Ethnic Map". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 8, 2013.

• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  Gail Collins

  Jobs, Law, Ideas

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2013.

• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

• Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

  Gail Collins

  Wall, Immigration, Agents

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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