Patty Judge Quotes

I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.

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

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

I am more than an immigration activist.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

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

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

The illegal immigrants may have broken the law, but we have been complicit.

The current system for admission of refugees with family ties in the U.S. is fraught with inconsistencies and discriminatory practices.

The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.

When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

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

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.

No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.

The City of Portland, our police bureau, and our employees do not cooperate with ICE.

Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and we need to differentiate between different kinds of migrants. There are valid refugees whose lives are at risk at home.

America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.