Raj Thackeray Quotes

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.

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.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

We need employer sanctions to avoid illegal immigration so that legal immigration may dominate.

The system is broken …. We must secure our borders. But we have to have a way of matching willing workers with willing employers and have a way for people to do the jobs that Americans don’t seem to want to do…. But I don’t believe that we are going to take people who have been here for 40 or 50 years and ship them back where they came from…. As long as there is a demand for workers, workers will come.

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

What I'm in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with border security.

If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

Illegal migrants, who have entered our country crossing the border, have to go back. But citizens of our nation living in Assam need not worry.

Immigration security is national security.

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

You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.

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.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

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

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.