Sergei Lavrov Quotes

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

Resolutions of the State Council of Ohio, Junior Order of United American Mechanics urging passage of laws to prevent the landing on our shores of the vicious, lawless, pauperized, and anarchistic elements of foreign countries.

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

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

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of smugglers.

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

Aliens with legitimate claims to asylum can still receive it - they simply have to go to one of our ports of entry. Thanks to this decisive order from President Trump, we are continuing to provide a path to protection for those who truly need it, while stopping our generosity from being abused.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.

I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.