Ronald Reagan Quotes

We went 60 years or more with no immigration, folks. It can be done. The only reason that it started up again, Ted Kennedy started bellyaching about it in the mid-sixties, and then that led to Simpson-Mazzoli 20 years later, 1986, amnesty for about 3.9 million, and we were told that would be it, never again, and of course now we're where we are.

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

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.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

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

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

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.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

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.

… we are answerable to an electorate which is uncomfortable with destabilizing mass immigration.

The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors.

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

We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be America anymore because most of the people coming in have no experience with limited government. They don't know what that is.

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

It seems as though our leaders have almost forgotten about legal immigration and are just leaving our borders open, which is a detriment culturally, financially, and in a lot of other realms for native people.

The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come to live here.

I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.