Illegal Aliens Quotes - Page 2

• Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

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• There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, World, Aliens

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• Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Law, Giving

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• It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it.

  William J. Clinton

  Immigration, Custody, Aliens

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• I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

  Ann Coulter

  Aliens, Illegal, Commentary

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.76, Crown Forum

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• The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Immigration, Would Be, Looks

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• No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Immigration, Amnesty

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• No. 1, it [amnesty for illegal aliens] demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It's a very clear signal that why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process? And No. 2, it demoralizes the people enforcing the law. So I am not and I will never support - never have and never will support - any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks who have entered or stayed in this country illegally.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Law, People

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• We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Trying, Principles

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• The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps.

  Newt Gingrich

  Silly, Government, Ideas

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• In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, Years, Law

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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• 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

  Past, Differences, Immigration

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• At a time when Democratic leaders are pushing rationed care in a world of limited resources, Americans might wonder where the call for shared sacrifice is from illegal immigrant patients like those in Los Angeles getting free liver and kidney transplants at UCLA Medical Center. 'I'm just mad,' illegal alien Jose Lopez told the Los Angeles Times last year after receiving two taxpayer-subsidized liver transplants while impatiently awaiting approval for state health insurance.

  Michelle Malkin

  Sacrifice, Ucla, Years

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• Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

  David Letterman

  Hair, Aliens, Illegal

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• As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

  Howie Carr

  Special, Citizens, Asking

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• We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.

  Ted Cruz

  Florida, Immigration, Campaigns

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to on a illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen. They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Believe, People

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• The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Citizens, Aliens

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• Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.

  Matt Salmon

  Country, Jail, Criminals

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• I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

  Ai Weiwei

  Moving, Years, Aliens

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Assessment, Voting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that's it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn't any more illegal immigration, but that didn't happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it's worked out magnificently for them to this extent.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Ideas, California

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'

  Don Feder

  Hate, Dark, Government

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• For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?"

  Moby

  Girlfriend, Wings, Pro Life

  "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News, February 9, 2004.

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