Immigration Quotes - Page 7

• When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Genius, Paper

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• I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.

  Charles Barkley

  Running, Real, War

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• What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?

  Rich Lowry

  Mean, Ice, Law

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• Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

  Rich Lowry

  Government, Trying, United States

  "Feds Have Failed on Immigration" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Arizona just became the 15th state to approve medical marijuana. So I give it three days before they stop caring about the whole immigration thing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Caring, Marijuana, Giving

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• I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration. The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Keys, Government

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• We need to fix our legal immigration system.

  Carly Fiorina

  Needs, Legal Immigration

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  America, Usual, Chicago

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Independent, Technology, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

  Donald Trump

  Borders, Vets, Belief

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Our Muslim friends must learn from previous waves of immigration.

  Edward Leigh

  Wave

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Decision, Borders

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what`s emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base.

  Josh Barro

  Thinking, Issues, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

  Adam Schiff

  Years, Gaps, Problem

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Broken, Stories, Painful

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Reform, Sides, Congress

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• 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

  Yield, Political Will, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Community, Reform, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, America, Myth

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.

  Mark Krikorian

  Issues, Interesting, Polarization

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A

  Mark Krikorian

  Religious, Views, Opinion Leaders

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.

  Mark Krikorian

  Responsibility, Government, Law

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Gun, Giving

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• There are differences of opinion, especially when it comes to economic and financial policy. But when it comes to foreign and especially immigration policy, we are in agreement. No other countries in Europe are closer to each other in this regard than Italy and Germany.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Agreement, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Zero, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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