John Linder Quotes

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

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

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.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

We need the immigrants.

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

Every day our nation grows a little darker from massive nonwhite immigration, high nonwhite birthrate and increasing racial miscegenation.

You cannot have one or two million immigrants a year and still have English as the only official language of the country.

Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand — will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilization changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

Our current immigration laws are in a word --- unjust!

The illegal immigrants may have broken the law, but we have been complicit.

If we had those 40 million children that were aborted over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

You who are so-called “illegal aliens” must know that no human being is illegal.

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

I do believe that people hire immigrants, legal and illegal immigrants, to do certain jobs that maybe possibly could go to American citizens, and that's unfortunate. If they're here legally, I think it's OK. If they're here illegally, then they ought not be taking jobs from American citizens.

In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

Mr. Trump never made any derogatory or disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants... He was talking about Mexico. They're allowing people to pour through their borders, and that's a problem for our national security.