Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I'm not anti-immigration.

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

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.

Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question about it. And it's very simple to understand why - half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

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

Immigration is an emotional issue. And it ought to be an emotional issue because it affects people's lives.

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.

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.

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.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

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

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

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.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.