Al Sharpton Quotes

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

Immigrant rights are civil rights.

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

Thousands of children entering the country illegally have become the face of the immigration crisis in the U.S.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.

Well, I do want to talk about the challenges at the border. New Mexico, if you will, has become an Ellis Island and we want to take that issue seriously and we're not going to shy away that it presents significant challenges.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.

That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.

We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country.

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

The boast that our country is the asylum for the oppressed in other parts of the world is very philanthropic and sentimental, but I fear that we shall before long derive little comfort from being made the almshouse and place of refuge for the poor of other countries.

Today, thousands of immigrant families are living in fear and being torn apart because Congress refuses to act.

“Illegal” should describe only an action, not a person.

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

After the separation of children from families seeking to join the United States was embraced as the official policy of our government, we should ask ourselves what story we will tell. President Trump's story is one of cruelty - that we may do something unfathomable to deter families from coming to America.

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.

Turning away women and children in grave danger; warehousing children in cages; deporting people whom we promised to protect - these actions are not reflective of the America I want to live in. They do not represent the values our country claims to hold.

Our borders are being overrun.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.