Molly Ivins Quotes

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

I do not love immigration. I think immigration has been harmful to the United States. I think it's brought more persons more dependent on the government into this country.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

Some conservatives say that whether it's popular or unpopular, imposing strict limits on immigration is the right thing to do, and it must be defended.

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 are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

The new wave of mass immigration … reinforced the leftist campaign to destroy Christendom

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

Massive immigration has only just begun. It is the biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.

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

Britain’s efforts to restrict immigration have become “a very large obstacle” to hiring the best scientists.

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.

The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

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.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.