Immigration Laws Quotes

• If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

  John Linder

  Believe, Law, Immigration

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• 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

  Country, Doors, Drug

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• 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

  Law, Office, Criminals

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Jobs, Law, Skills

  "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.

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• ...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

  Emanuel Celler

  Equality, Hands, Law

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• 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

  Law, Names, Government

  Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Long, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Law, Immigration, Next

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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

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

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• We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.

  Tom Fitton

  Law, Immigration, Want

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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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• By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Community, Immigration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Priorities, Immigration

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforced the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. We will enforce all of our immigration laws.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Immigration, Borders

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a local dog catcher election.

  Ted Nugent

  Dog, Winning, Law

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• The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, Writing, Law

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed. Before that, there was an Oriental Exclusion Act, but other than that, European immigrants like my parents were generally admitted in the early years of the twentieth century. But that ended in 1924 with an immigration law that was largely directed against Jews and Italians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Years, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Independent, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Melania Trump posted on Twitter -I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. It's the same message she told MSNBC in February [2016].

  Melania Trump

  Country, Law, Immigration

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• In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

  Russell Pearce

  Law, Immigration, United States

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• Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, Law, Immigration

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• Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Rights, Law

  Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

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• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

  Gail Collins

  Jobs, Law, Ideas

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2013.

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