Immigration Laws Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

  Richard Lamm

  Mean, Law, Immigration

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• If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Immigration, Borders

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.

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• A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

  Brock Yates

  Law, Immigration, Regulation

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.126, MotorBooks International

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• Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

  Marco Rubio

  Usa, Law, Broken

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation
  as immigration law.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, Law, People

  "Whose Country Is This?", Good Housekeeping Magazine, February, 1921.

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• I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Common Sense, Immigration

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech At Breakfast Reception In Sligo, Ireland, www1.nyc.gov. August 22, 2006.

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• Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What's with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards - why not make heroin legal? Let's take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!

  Ann Coulter

  Wall, Rip, Law

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• We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U.S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad - even for temporary jobs - should have to recruit U.S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Should Have, Law

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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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• Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

  Harry Reid

  Reality, Law, Gaps

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Military, Artist, Government

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• If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, Law, Political

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• Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

  Steve Israel

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Believe, Law

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• In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?

  Joe Arpaio

  Country, Believe, Law

  "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, People, Decision

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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