Immigration Quotes - Page 21

• If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, People, Individual

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Helping

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• This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.

  Joe Arpaio

  Gun, Talking, Law

  "Does Russell Pearce recall portend a new Arizona?" by Stephen Ceasar, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

  Emily Blunt

  Trying, Cards, Green

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• 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

  Ice, Enforcement, Disappear

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• Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

  Jeb Bush

  Voters, Gateways, Checks

  "What We Know About Romney and Immigration After the Republican Convention" by Frank Sharry, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

  Hillary Clinton

  Illegal, Illegal Immigration, Knows

  "Clinton refuses to directly answer whether she's lied to Americans". The Five", www.foxnews.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

  Gail Collins

  Wall, Agents, Matter

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• 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

  Couple, Gay, Adoption

  "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Pounds

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• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  Vicente Fox

  Agreement, Ends, Stage

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• We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

  Al Franken

  Unique, Views, Debt

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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• I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

  Duncan Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Borders

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• Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

  Ric Keller

  Years, Cost, Care

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• The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

  Ric Keller

  Impact, Economic, Illegal

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• However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Doubt, Wave, Poland

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• Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

  Richard Lamm

  Mean, Law, World

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• 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

  Crush, Insane, Liberty

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• Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

  John Lydon

  Islands, Ebb And Flow, Britain

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• The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

  Susana Martinez

  Race, Ethnicity, Should Have

  "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.

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• It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

  Steven Morrissey

  Wish, England, Reason

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