Louie Gohmert Quotes

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

The key here is to be fair to the 11 million [illegal immigrants], starting with the [2 million younger illegals] ‘Dreamers'....I’ve stopped letting 30 percent of the people who are mad about immigration determine how I behave. To those who feel like you should deport [younger illegals], boy, I couldn’t disagree with you more…. To the people who object to this, I don’t want you to vote for me because I cannot serve you well.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

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.