Immigration Reform Quotes - Page 3

• I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Immigration, Reform

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt Room, refused to shake my hand.He made a point of saying, "I can't shake your hand; you're deporting too many people." And I just said to him, "Young man, I'm glad that you feel so passionately about this issue, but you're with the president right now in the White House. You've got to think about what's going to be most effective in getting what you need, what you're trying to accomplish. Because this may not be your best strategy."

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, White

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

  Barack Obama

  Order, Issues, Immigration

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists who essentially would argue that any immigrant from Central America, let's say, who gets here to this country should be allowed to stay because their country is dangerous, their country is poor, and the opportunities for that mom and that kid are much greater here, and why would you send them back?

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Country, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I was part of the gang of eight in the house in 2013 that was working on comprehensive immigration reform. We talked a lot about border security and what was effective and what was not. Walls are not effective when you`re out in the desert and you don`t need them.

  John Yarmuth

  Wall, Eight, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Law, Immigration

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for Americans, to strengthen our nation's security, and to restore respect for our laws.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Reality, Thinking

  "Transcript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

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• It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

  Barack Obama

  Immigration, United States, Reform

  Source: time.com

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• People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, People, Broken

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

  Josh Earnest

  Thinking, Usa, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Together, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

  David Malpass

  Country, Home, Past

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• The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Immigration, Reform, Sides

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

  Edward Kennedy

  Yield, Political Will, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Community, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Gun, Giving

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Shadow, Immigration

  Marco Rubio's speech at the ninth Republican Presidential debate in Greenville, S.C., www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, People, House

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two facts. One, that they didn`t even understand the base of their own party, white working class voters who you know what, don`t care about tax cuts for the rich, really aren`t interested in the things that the elite part of their party want, including immigration reform. And number two, they spent eight months avoiding finding opposition research to use against the guy who was becoming the front-runner in their party that they don`t want.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Cutting, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

  E. J. Dionne

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• Barak Obama said as much today talking about immigration. (imitating Obama) "I don't care what happens today. It is gonna happen. We are going to have comprehensive immigration reform. We're gonna have amnesty for these 11 or 12 million. It's gonna happen. You just wait." And that's the way they go about it. Defeat is not something that, in their minds, is lasting.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Waiting, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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