Mitt Romney Quotes About Immigration

Quotes about: Immigration

• I very firmly believe that we have to make sure that we enforce our borders, that we have an employment verification system, and that those people who have come here illegally do not get an advantage to become permanent residents, they do not get a special pathway.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, People, Special

  Third G.O.P. Debate, www.nytimes.com. June 5, 2007.

• There are a few things that were disconcerting: the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials. That, obviously, is not something which is encouraging.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Immigration, Stories

  "Romney Scrambles After Doubting London's Olympics". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 26, 2012.

• I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people who have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law, I think that's the right course.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Thinking, Law

  Republican presidential debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

• I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, Special

• When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally for the rest of their life, that's going to only encourage more people to come here illegally.

  Mitt Romney

  Past, People, Immigration

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 27, 2011.

• An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Immigration, Illegal

• Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Home, Return

• Giving tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants needs to stop.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Giving, Needs

• Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

  Mitt Romney

  Cities, Sanctuary, Immigration

• The United States needs to be made more appealing to legal immigrants.

  Mitt Romney

  Needs, Immigration, United States

• Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration.

  Mitt Romney

  Immigration, Illegal, Illegal Immigration

• Securing the border is priority number one.

  Mitt Romney

  Numbers, Priorities, Immigration

• Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

  Mitt Romney

  Immigration, United States, Lines

• We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Night, Voice

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

• People are taking a closer look at Donald Trump. I think the best look they got was at the last debate. I think Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio prosecuted their case effectively. Donald doesn't have some great answers. When they talk, for instance, about immigration and releasing those tapes from The New York Times, we began talking about flexibility and immigration.

  Mitt Romney

  New York, Thinking, Talking

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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