Jacky Rosen Quotes

This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

I'm not anti-immigration.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.