Legal Immigration Quotes - Page 2

• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  Skills, America, Immigration

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• As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Fighting, Order

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• ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Middle East, Inability

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Immigration, Terrorist, Has Beens

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We need to fix our legal immigration system.

  Carly Fiorina

  Immigration, Needs

  "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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• Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Immigration, Groups

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to take care of our workers.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Immigration

  Donald Trump's Speech On Immigration in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records. The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Years, Goal

  "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, Tom Mccarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

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• For those here illegally today, who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only. To return home and apply for reentry like everybody else, under the rules of the new legal immigration system that I have outlined above.

  Donald Trump

  Home, Immigration, Today

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

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• [ Donald Trump] is a man who ran on building a wall. And I know it was about legal immigration, but he did say incredibly vociferous things about Mexican-Americans and the Latino community that, frankly, regardless of if you take him literally or not, which most of his supporters don't - while they took him seriously, they didn't take him literally.

  Margaret Hoover

  Wall, Men, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the system we have in place right now is broken. For example, it is completely family based which means that it's based not on what you can do or what talent you have or what merit you bring or what job you could fill, but rather on whether you know someone who already lives here.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Mean, America

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

  Marco Rubio

  Usa, Law, Broken

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

  Gary Becker

  Commitment, Years, Long

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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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• I support legal immigration.

  Heather Wilson

  Support, Immigration

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• There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.

  Jeb Bush

  School, Kids, Past

  "Megyn Kelly previews her exclusive interview with Jeb Bush". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2015.

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• Have you noticed that when it comes to immigration we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard, and who is it that really is subject to most of the limits there? Have to say it’s white immigrants.

  Rush Limbaugh

  White, Immigration, Limits

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

  Ted Cruz

  Dream, Immigration, Imagine

  Ted Cruz's Announcement on Presidential Campaign at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2015.

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• I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

  Carly Fiorina

  Real, Thinking, Immigration

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Immigration, Way

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• Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

  Ted Nugent

  Law, Support, Abiding

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• ...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

  Marco Rubio

  Immigration, Amnesty, Grants

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• No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Immigration, Amnesty

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• I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Years, Law

  FaceBook post by Senator Ted Cruz from Jan 28, 2013

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• Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what's worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you've got a hard working immigrant family, they've got to hire a lawyer; they've got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can't afford it. And it's discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don't have the money. So we've got to fix that.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Character, Mean

  Transcript: Democratic debate in Austin, Texas, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2008.

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