Immigration Quotes - Page 9

• 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, Reform, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, America, Myth

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.

  Mark Krikorian

  Issues, Interesting, Polarization

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A

  Mark Krikorian

  Religious, Views, Opinion Leaders

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• There are differences of opinion, especially when it comes to economic and financial policy. But when it comes to foreign and especially immigration policy, we are in agreement. No other countries in Europe are closer to each other in this regard than Italy and Germany.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Agreement, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Government, Issues

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• [Donald Trump] said we're going to have a big door. He means lawful immigration will continue, but we're not going to allow the nation to be at risk in this fashion.

  Jeff Sessions

  Fashion, Mean, Doors

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• As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

  Jeff Sessions

  Mind, Important, Agents

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• It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Broken, Stories, Painful

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

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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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• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  Barack Obama

  Years, America, President

  "Obama slams Trump speech: Can't make decisions based on fear" by Jordan Fabian, thehill.com. July 22, 2016.

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• I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?

  Joe Arpaio

  Jobs, Thinking, Problem

  "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

  David Cross

  Xenophobia, Racism, Concern

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 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

  United States, Reform, Belief

  Source: time.com

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• When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Process, Orderly

  Barack Obama 's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

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• I didn't endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.

  Jeff Sessions

  Issues, Views, Talking

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• The pope once again ripped - I mean, really ripped - capitalism and Americans' immigration policy at the Mexican border, before he boarded the plane and returned to Italy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Mexican Border, Borders

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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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

  Reform, Sides, Congress

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

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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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• I had not been involved in any way in planning the event in Mobile. My staff maybe, had really been contacted, but I had never talked to Donald Trump about him coming to Mobile, and I decided - I had something else to do but it became so clear that it was going to be such a big event that I should be there. And he had already adopted my immigration views, in large part, and he was saying things I thought were valuable, about immigration.

  Jeff Sessions

  Views, Events, Way

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• You couldn't have a more clear choice between Donald Trump and I, who will end illegal immigration in this country, and - and Hillary Clinton, who will pursue more of the same, executive amnesty, open borders, which the American people are sick and tired of.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Tired, People

  "Trump team dodges and ducks". "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Intellectual, Energy

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• This is exactly the kind of thing that Trump supporters are fed up with about the Republican Party, how easy it is for so many in the Republican Party to sell out the party and join the Democrats - or not sell out the party, but stay within the party and advance the Democrats' agenda, be it with amnesty and immigration, abortion, who knows whatever it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Abortion, Agendas

  "Meg Whitman’s Treason". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 3, 2016.

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• Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Energy

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

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• As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the way we think. As that revolution goes on around us, it is going to pose political challenges of which immigration is one very obvious one, which are going to be extremely difficult to deal with. But it's like free trade. You know, in the end, if we go protectionist, we'll make a mistake.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Mistake, Moving

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

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