Marco Rubio Quotes

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

We have a very positive ‘immigration problem’ in this country, in that the Latino community coming in, both legally and illegally, generally possesses a value system that is compatible with America’s value system.

Women bear the brunt of the broken immigration system and they are tired of seeing their families torn apart and the country that they love being less than it should be.

… we are answerable to an electorate which is uncomfortable with destabilizing mass immigration.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

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

As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.

Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

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.

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.

I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

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

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

One way to sensitize Washington to the illegal alien problem is to make them pay for it.

If someone comes here illegally, we owe them absolutely nothing.

Unrestricted immigration has allowed the American Southwest to be invaded by aliens who may well in the near future … break the nation apart.

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

The coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof …. the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States

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

If we wish to say that no man shall come here who can not read and write, let us say so; but let us not say that no man shall come here who has a wife who can not read and write, unless he leave her behind…We want members of families. We do not believe that it is better to admit a man, no matter how well educated, to be separated from his family and to live here by himself. It is better neither for the country nor for him.

The simple answer to the illegal alien problem is to secure our boarders and enforce the law.