Joe Manchin Quotes

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

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

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

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.

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

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

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 wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

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.

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.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

We must give Trump credit for asking many politically incorrect questions and challenging mainstream Republican dogma on immigration.

I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.