Pat Paulsen Quotes

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.

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

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

I just think that Stephen Miller is completely tone deaf when it comes to reforming our immigration system.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

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.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

I'm not anti-immigration.

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.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

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

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.