Francisco Goldman Quotes

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

The one place where I do think our culture today has to be extremely careful is this whole thing about illegal aliens. Because any time you start defining a significant block of the population as 'others,' or as less than you, you start getting into dangerous waters.

It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all.

I'm not anti-immigration.

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

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

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

There's an overdose of foreigners.

The new wave of mass immigration … reinforced the leftist campaign to destroy Christendom

[There are] many vicious and inconvertible elements [within the] multitude of foreign immigrants.

There was an obvious link between 30 or 40 years of a policy of uncontrolled immigration and the social explosion in French cities.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

Massive immigration has only just begun. It is the biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

Britain’s efforts to restrict immigration have become “a very large obstacle” to hiring the best scientists.

Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of immigrants going back to the days of the Founders, when Ben Franklin thought we were going to be overrun by Germans. But Business likes illegal workers.

At almost every step of modern immigration policy and immigration politics, we have exacerbated underlying problems and made things worse.

I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.

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

I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.