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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. -- Paul Watson
If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them. -- Jesse Ventura
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America. -- Marco Rubio
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
Immigration is a sensitive topic. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical. -- Peter Brimelow
Immigration security is national security. -- Kellyanne Conway
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. -- Jack Paar
Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit. -- Tony Blair
Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs. -- Geoff Mulgan
Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy. -- Tony Blair
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner. -- Roger Mahony
The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. -- Monica Dickens
Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career. -- Mark McKinnon
Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters. -- Jeb Bush
Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible. -- Gary Johnson
Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive. -- Mark McKinnon
Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth. -- Dave Reichert
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides. -- Spencer Bachus
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it? -- Brian K. Vaughan
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. -- Thomas Sowell
Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education. -- Eva Longoria
Immigration has been [Donald] Trump`s signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it. -- Steve Kornacki
A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich. -- Laila Lalami
[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service. -- Rudy Giuliani
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. -- Jeb Bush
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
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
While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people. -- Donald Trump
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics. -- Jeb Bush
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized. -- John Barrasso
I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop, -- Imran Khan
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
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
This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong. -- Jermaine Jackson
As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. -- Virgil Goode
Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being called illegal immigrants because people are biased and prejudiced. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict. -- Marine Le Pen
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
Immigration law's already settled. That's why we have people known as illegal immigrants, because the law is very clear. They're not being called illegal immigrants because people are biased and prejudiced. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. -- Donald Trump
A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen -- Gayle Forman
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament. -- Ruben Martinez
Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts. -- George Lopez
The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God! -- George Francis Train
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. -- Emanuel Celler
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters. -- Charles Schumer
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants. -- Nathan Deal
Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful. -- Barack Obama
Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate. -- Geoffrey Blainey
Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade. -- Barack Obama
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience. -- John F. Kennedy
Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America. -- Howard Graham Buffett
Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. -- Christopher Hitchens
I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration. -- Hillary Clinton
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. -- Marco Rubio
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life. -- John F. Kennedy
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. -- Ted Nugent
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status. -- Wendy Kopp
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. -- Alan Greenspan
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out. -- Tony Blair
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. -- Eric Hoffer
I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned. -- Dennis Kucinich
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?' -- Grace Hopper
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. -- Pat Paulsen
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom. -- Shah Rukh Khan
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. -- Bill Gates
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. -- George Washington
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship. -- Joe Baca
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. -- James Madison
The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in. -- Romano L. Mazzoli
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. -- Jose Serrano
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here. -- Madeleine Albright
There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come. -- Linda Ronstadt
Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. -- Jon Porter
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. -- Emma Lazarus
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges... -- George Washington
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment. -- George Washington
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history... Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future. -- George W. Bush
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans. -- Ami Bera
The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking. -- Steve King
We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong! -- Jan Brewer
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. -- John Edwards
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances. -- Robert Kennedy
Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests. -- Rush Limbaugh
When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system. -- Lindsey Graham
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom. -- Edward Kennedy
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. -- Richard Rohr
A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home. -- Eric Cantor
The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told. -- Ken Salazar
Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them. -- Michael Steele
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief. -- John Oliver
It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known. -- George W. Bush
End illegal immigration. -- Donald Trump
I'm not anti-immigration. -- Mickey Kaus
I support legal immigration. -- Heather Wilson
I'm a big supporter of immigration. -- Malcolm Wallop
EU leaders must act over immigration -- Salil Shetty
I'm a big believer in family-based immigration. -- Marco Rubio
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. -- Susana Martinez
Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration. -- Mitt Romney
I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, -- Susana Martinez
Opposes compromise immigration bill- it tears apart families. -- Bill Richardson
Next, we will create a modern immigration law. -- Gerhard Schroder
It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform. -- Bob Inglis
We need to fix our legal immigration system. -- Carly Fiorina
My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned. -- Ann Wagner
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. -- Emanuel Celler
I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration. -- William Kristol

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