Kris Kobach Quotes

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.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

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

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

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

I support legal immigration.

Citizenship obtained through naturalization is not a second-class citizenship.

Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in, and leave Canada.

Hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

We're giving those benefits away, which we earn as citizens of this nation, of being legalized citizens.

We are not going to round up and deport 12 million people, but we're not going to hand out citizenship cards, either. There will be a process. We will see what the American people are willing to support. But it will not be unconstitutional executive orders like the ones Barack Obama has forced on us.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!

The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

I will join the fight for the DREAM Act that will create a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers.

When we in Congress set the terms under which immigrants in this country must live, we wield a power that is checked primarily by our individual sense of fairness: the power to set taxes and make laws that apply to people who do not have representation.

No path to citizenship. People that want to gain legal status, you heard Donald Trump say again and again, will have to leave the country.

We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together.