Kevin Hassett Quotes

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

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.

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

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

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

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

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

This is not the 1890's. We can't have open borders any more.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.

We never have been closed to immigration.

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

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.

I'm not anti-immigration.

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

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

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.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

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.

We could have free immigration if we did not have a welfare state. In principle I would like to see free immigration.

If you can’t control your borders, you can’t control immigration. And if we can’t control immigration, there is no way re can reform immigration.