Eric Liu Quotes

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

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.

Obama gave temporary amnesty to well over 1 million illegal immigrants, and Romney said nothing.

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

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

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.

America has everything, why should they want us.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

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.

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.

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

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

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

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.

We must come up with new immigration laws to … show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants.