Al Sharpton Quotes

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

The need for physical border security is a very real one. But equally important is the need to focus on the source of the problem: mass emigration from Central America.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

Immigrants everywhere have been a wonderful bonus for the host countries. Sometimes it amazes me how anti-immigration feelings arise in Europe or the United States, when immigration has been wonderful for business.

Through both our admissions policies and, equally importantly, through our support for international protection and assistance, the United States leads the world in responding to refugee and related humanitarian crises.

Americans are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal immigrants entering this country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by our citizens or legal immigrants, and the public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal aliens who try to take American jobs, and by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.

The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come and contribute to their new home country: building our roads, caring for our homes, children, and elders, and serving as doctors, lawyers, employers, and innovators.

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

We need the immigrants.

Immigration—legal and illegal—has shaped and will continue to shape California's destiny.

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

Displacement is very tough on the people who are displaced and for the country that is hosting them.