Spencer Bachus Quotes

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

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.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

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

Every immigrant, rich or poor, must add to our wealth and strength.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

Immigrants are integral to the strength of our nation. They deserve comprehensive reform that will provide a pathway to citizenship and ensure that families aren't torn apart.

We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

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

We want to have a system where people can come here and work - go back and forth if they want to... so that we have an open door to the people who want to come and contribute to our country, who want to come and make a difference in their families' lives and our economy.

If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?

Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

We all need to call upon our lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for hard-working, law-abiding undocumented people and their families.

We are a nation of immigrants.

I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.

When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.