Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

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

We need the immigrants.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.

President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.

Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

Romney says he loves immigration.

When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.

When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.

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.

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.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

I'm not anti-immigration.

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.

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.

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

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

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

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

I'm a big supporter of immigration.