Lamar Alexander Quotes

I'm not anti-immigration.

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

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.

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.

We must come up with new immigration laws to … show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants.

I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

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

My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration - not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

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.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

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.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

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

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

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

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.