Immigration Quotes - Page 6

• There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

  Niger Innis

  Compelling Reason, Land, America

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• I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.

  Emo Philips

  Six Months, Quarantine, Rabies

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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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• Unlicensed, illegal immigrants are the safest drivers on the road.

  Dov Davidoff

  Illegal, Drivers, Immigrants

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 15, 2012

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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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• The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.

  David Roediger

  Keys, Color, Southern

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• Immigration and travel certainly don't mean the same thing everywhere. Here in Cuba, the big wall isn't just the fact that it's an island, but the fact that we need an exit permit in order to leave, and the letters of invitation in order to visit another country.

  Fernando Perez

  Country, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.

  Ted Cruz

  Eight, Borders, Border Security

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I introduced bill saying we need more security, we need more scrutiny. Once again, Marco [Rubio] opposed this. So Marco can't have it both ways. He thinks he wants to be this, "Oh, I'm great and strong on national defense." But he's the weakest of all the candidates on immigration. He is the one for an open border that is leaving us defenseless.

  Ted Cruz

  Strong, Thinking, Leaving

  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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• That may not be a majority position in my party, but that's down the road. You can't even begin that process until you prove to people - not just pass a law that says you're gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You're gonna have to do it and prove to people that it's working.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, 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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• I think what's important for us to understand and there is a way forward on this issue that we an bring our country together on. And while I'm president I will do it. And it will begin by bringing illegal immigration under control and proving to the American people.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Way Forward

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I've laid out a very, very detailed immigration plan on my website, tedcruz.org. It's 11 pages of existing federal law and in particular the question of what to do with people who are here now.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, People, Pages

  Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do need more border control. And we need to have better cooperation by the way with local law enforcement. There are 800,000 cops on the beat, they ought to be trained to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement for the threat against terror as well as for immigration.

  Jeb Bush

  Eye, Technology, Law

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Wish, Looks

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.

  Argus Hamilton

  Weather, Numbers, Hot

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