Lionel Shriver Quotes

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

I need a visa in almost 38 countries, which means an American has more access into Africa than myself.

Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country in Western Europe or in America can any longer adopt the idea of totally free movement of people. I t would simply overwhelm their social facilities, their societies and create migratory dynamics on the scales of tens and tens of millions of people. That simply is not practical.

I spoke in the United States of America and in Canada and other countries already have good results with immigration, that it cannot be compared everything to Europe.

The matter of people being attracted to other countries is a permanent problem in my view, it doesn't only face South Africa. A whole lot of countries in the world are faced with this problem.

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

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

Immigration shall be encouraged

I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.

No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.

Rising leftists openly call for open borders and seek to erase the distinction between citizens and non-citizens. I tell you what, if you erase our borders, you erase our country.

It's stupid, just because I was born with a French passport, I have the right to travel all around the world, but if I was born in Mali, or Venezuela or Bolivia I couldn't.

I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm going to have to leave the country, stay in the E.U., and probably change my citizenship.

Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program.

Canada has as much or more control of the border than we do. Getting into Mexico is a lot easier than getting into Canada.