Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes

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.

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

We need to have comprehensive immigration reform and that means there should be a path for citizenship. And certainly I support the DREAM Act to help all of these young people who were brought here.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

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

I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

I support comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to full and equal citizenship for undocumented immigrants who are playing by the rules, staying out of trouble and contributing to our economy.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.

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

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

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

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

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.

The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

I support legal immigration.

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .

One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.

I'm a big believer in family-based immigration.