Mark Rutte Quotes

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

This is not the 1890's. We can't have open borders any more.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

The fact is, as we leave the EU, Britain will be able to choose its own immigration system rather than having free movement with one part of the world and a managed system with elsewhere.

The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come to live here.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

I'm not anti-immigration.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.