Immigration Quotes - Page 12

• I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

  Andrew Lam

  Moving, Years, Speaking Up

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if illegal immigration isn't stopped. You're gonna have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites - very, very tiny - and they're gonna live in a very few, small, gated enclaves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Powerful, California

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• There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Order, Matter

  Source: www.univision.com

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• [Donald] Trump has quietly rolled out an immigration plan with specifics and everyone wants specifics. He's got immigration with specifics, a black and Hispanic outreach plan with specifics.

  Eric Bolling

  Black, Want, Trump

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.

  Tony Blair

  Driving, Behinds

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming.

  Roger Stone

  Islamic, Europe, Elderly

  "Trump Campaign CEO Was a Big Promoter of Anti-Muslim Extremists". www.motherjones.com. September 15, 2016.

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• By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

  Mark Krikorian

  Growth, Progress, Subsidies

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• If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, People, Individual

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• Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Class, Issues

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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 Laws

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

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• If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Book, Records, Cash

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Also, in Quebec, we have this added issue that we want people to speak French, because French is always on the verge of disappearing to some extent. I work, play and do everything in French.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Play, Cities, Speaks French

  Source: collider.com

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• Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Years, Might, Strange

  Source: collider.com

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• Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.

  Daniel Tosh

  Letters, Silent, Illegal

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• The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.

  Monica Dickens

  Lag, Baggage, Limitless

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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

  Godfrey

  Country, Xenophobia, Native American

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.

  Thomas Ravenel

  Military, Gay, Dogma

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• Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Trying, Why Not

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Middle East, Inability

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Enough Time, Safe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Terrorist, Has Beens, Terrorist Attacks

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Risk, Program

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

  Marco Rubio

  Pbs, Issues, Cnn

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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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• After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

  Marco Rubio

  Order, People, President

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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