Diane Guerrero Quotes

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

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.

President Trump is enforcing U.S. immigration law, and in doing so, protecting the well-being and in some cases the lives of U.S. citizens.

The immigration issue is about the separation of families, and that is not human, in any country in the world, but especially in the United States. We should not root for a law that separates families.

I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.

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

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

If we wish to say that no man shall come here who can not read and write, let us say so; but let us not say that no man shall come here who has a wife who can not read and write, unless he leave her behind…We want members of families. We do not believe that it is better to admit a man, no matter how well educated, to be separated from his family and to live here by himself. It is better neither for the country nor for him.

The current system for admission of refugees with family ties in the U.S. is fraught with inconsistencies and discriminatory practices.

The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

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

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.

Under the Obama administration, 80-90 percent of individuals making asylum claims with children were released after being processed and given a court date. Inevitably, they started living in the U.S. illegally for years to come. This is the policy the Trump administration is trying to change.

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

We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.

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

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.

Well, when Joe Biden is president you will no longer see this separation of families along the border. We welcome these families to enter into the United States.

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

We should be a nation that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and ensures that everyone gets a fair day in court.

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

I would have had a much different story to tell if I had been imprisoned after being separated from my family, without a warm bed and only the cold faces of ICE agents and the crinkly feeling of a Mylar blanket.