Immigration Laws Quotes

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

John Linder

Believe, Law, Immigration

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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

Country, Doors, Drug

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Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else.

Donald Trump

Law, Office, Criminals

Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

Bob Goodlatte

Jobs, Law, Skills

"Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.

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...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

Believe, Reality, Law

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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

Law, Names, Government

Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Emanuel Celler

Equality, Hands, Law

Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

Anthony Weiner

Law, Squash, Community

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More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

David Duke

White, Europe, Law

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In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

Ann Coulter

Law, Justice, Immigration

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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

Aviva Chomsky

Country, Rights, Law

Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

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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

Government, Law, Immigration

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In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

Russell Pearce

Law, Immigration, United States

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We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

Tom Fitton

Law, Immigration, Want

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That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforced the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. We will enforce all of our immigration laws.

Donald Trump

Law, Immigration, Borders

Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.

Charlie Munger

Law, Immigration

"Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 4". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 31, 2006.

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As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

Jay Leno

Country, Jobs, Impact

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According to Democrats it's racist, jingoistic and xenophobic to support enforcing America's immigration laws. What's next for Democrats, labeling heterosexual sex as homophobic?

Ted Nugent

Sex, Law, America

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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

Ted Nugent

Law, America, Immigration

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I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

Rick Perry

Jobs, Joining In, Law

"TRANSCRIPT: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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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

State of the Union Address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.

Donald Trump

Law, Priorities, Immigration

"Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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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

Government, Law, People

Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

Gerhard Schroder

Law, Immigration, Next

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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.

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