Immigration Quotes - Page 26

• We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Significant Change, Two

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• Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

  Bruce Braley

  Long, Waiting, Reform

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• Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

  Spencer Bachus

  Views, America, Issues

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• I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, Borders

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

  Clayton Cramer

  Matter, United States, May

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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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• People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

  Liz Kendall

  Talking, People, Migrants

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Stop illegal immigration. Stop these trade deals that are taking jobs from Americans. Build an economy that works for the people at the bottom, not just the ones at the top.

  Mike Huckabee

  Jobs, People, Economy

  "Media excitement over Warren endorsement justified?; Mitt Romney confirms he will not vote for Donald Trump". "The Kelly File", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2016.

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• I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

  John Oliver

  Listening, Interviews, May

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?

  Sadiq Khan

  Style, Would Be, Australian

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Britain needs to change its immigration system - and the only way to do that is to vote Leave.

  Harsimrat Kaur Badal

  Needs, Way, Vote

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.

  Harsimrat Kaur Badal

  Mean, Skills, Australia

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, Long

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Guarantees

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I still am amazed by the reaction I get from people when I tell them that there was zero immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965. And the reason that people don't know that, A, they just don't know it, it's not reported, it's never been part of history class, history education.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Zero, Class

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives. They can't conceive of a period of time where there was no immigration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, People, Live For Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• From 1924 to 1965, 41 years, essentially, there was no immigration. Try telling people that in the midst of this debate and they won't believe you. They'll think you're making it up. They'll think you're lying about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause the immigration in order to for the new arrivals to assimilate, to become Americans, to learn English, for one thing. The one thing - or not the one; there are many different things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Order, Different, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late 1800s through the early 1920s came here desiring to become Americans. They wanted to become part of what was a unique and distinct American culture. They were all coming from tyranny of one kind or another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, Differences, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Immigration, as promoted by the Democrat Party, really is a voter registration drive, pure and simple. It is a desire by the Democrat Party to find another way to remain in perpetual power, by creating as many dependent voters as they can.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Simple, Creating

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Jun 23, 2016

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• The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Skills, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws. It wasn't based in humanity, although that's the way it was sold. It was rooted in registering voters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Ideas, Humanity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• On top of that she promises uncontrolled, low-skilled immigration that continues to reduce jobs and wages for American workers, and especially for African-American and Hispanic workers within our country. Our citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, African American

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

  Joss Whedon

  Simple, Work Out, Goal

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