Vicente Fox Quotes

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

What people want - and they will get - is control of our own system, with a lower and sustainable level of net migration. And, above all, that has to mean one thing: an end to freedom of movement.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.

I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

We should return to Howard-era immigration levels in NSW.

We should be able to have a conversation about immigration; we should be able to have a conversation about what skills we want to have in the U.K. and whether we need to go out of the U.K. in order to get them to boost our economy, and I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about it.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

The reality is there's a limit to how many people any country can bring in. And we as a country have a right to say we want to bring people based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to be safe, productive citizens, and to uplift the nation as a whole.

I'm not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can't, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.

Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

We are not against immigration, but we want to have control on immigration. We want to decide who is allowed to come into Austria. We should not let human traffickers decide.

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

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S.