Paul Nehlen Quotes

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

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

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

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.

At the opening of the present Congress, it was very offensive to say anything detrimental about the Japanese immigration in the presence of a Congressman or a Senator, and the President of the United States was even reported to have said that if they sent the representatives of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League to the White House he would deport the members of the committee. The change which has taken place is notable, not only in the halls of legislation in Washington, but in the industrial and commercial centers of the east.

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

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.

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.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

What we do know, despite the lack of media curiosity, is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement.

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

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.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

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.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

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

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.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.