Illegal Immigration Quotes - Page 3

• In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

  Leon Panetta

  Zero, Taken, Somewhere Else

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• The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.

  Mark Krikorian

  Immigration, Different, Cards

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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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• California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if illegal immigration isn't stopped. You're gonna have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites - very, very tiny - and they're gonna live in a very few, small, gated enclaves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Powerful, California

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• Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, Immigration, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.677, Best Books on

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• I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and all we get - we get illegal immigration and we get drugs.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Mean, Drug

  Source: time.com

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• By stopping the flow of illegal immigration, we will save countless tax dollars, and that's so important because the tax - the dollars that we're losing are beyond anything that you can imagine. And the tax dollars that can be used to rebuild struggling American communities - including our inner cities.

  Donald Trump

  Struggle, Cities, Community

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Immigration, Want, Illegal

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump's always going to tell the American people where he stands. And, make no mistake about it. There's... there's been no change in the policy about ending illegal immigration in America.

  Mike Pence

  Mistake, America, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

  Elton Gallegly

  Government, Mexican, Immigration

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• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

  Spencer Bachus

  Broken Heart, Years, Immigration

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• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Allen West

  Book, Law, Immigration

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• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Agreement, Numbers

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, People, Immigration

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Book, Records, Cash

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and foremost. That's a threat. But this happens when the U.S. economy is humming. There is a lot of upward mobility, and people leave the lower depths of poverty and start traversing a pathway through the middle class to the upper middle class, and as they leave, the Democrats have to replace them. That is what illegal immigration has been since 1965 when Ted Kennedy reintroduced the whole concept after 40 years of no immigration from 1921 to 1965.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, People, Immigration

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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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• 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

  Country, Baby, Anchors

  "Steve King Introduces Bill To Stop ‘Anchor Babies’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  Immigration, Amnesty, Break

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

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• Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall, which we will have built in record time. And at a reasonable cost, which you never hear from the government.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Government, Years

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Donald Trump has a plan, that he laid out in Arizona, that will deal systematically with illegal immigration, beginning with border security, internal enforcement. It's probably why for the first time in the history of immigrations and customs enforcement, their union actually endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, because they know they need help to enforce the laws of this country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Law, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• End illegal immigration.

  Donald Trump

  Immigration, Ends, Illegal

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• Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

  Jan Brewer

  Drug Cartels, House, Southern

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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