Jens Lekman Quotes

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

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, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

We are, of course, a nation of immigrants, but some of us too often forget that fact. Sometimes we forget that the question isn't when we came here, but why we came here.

Unrestricted immigration has allowed the American Southwest to be invaded by aliens who may well in the near future … break the nation apart.

My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.

Our nation relies on immigrants.

Romney says he loves immigration.

There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.

The major difference for us in America with respect to Hispanic immigration is that it is so large and that it is coming from neighboring countries rather than those countries off the Atlantic or Pacific. That creates different issues and different problems for us as compared to the past. It is still very different, however, from the situation in Europe where we see people with a very different non-European religion coming from neighboring countries.

I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally. I don't mind having a big beautiful door in that wall so that people can come into this country legally.

We are going to enforce the law of America and strengthen immigration and customs enforcement with more resources and personnel to be able to do that, and then Donald Trump has made it clear. Once we have done all of those things, then we are going to reform the immigration system that we have in this country.

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

I was an illegal immigrant.

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that - you heard the word humanely again. It is going to be fair. It is going to be tough. But there will be no path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country.

We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

Let me tell you who the immigration system in America does not serve. It does not serve you the American people.

People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a constitutional right. So with do, as a nation, have the ability and should have the ability to decide who comes here and when they come here.