Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Our current immigration laws are in a word --- unjust!

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

One way to sensitize Washington to the illegal alien problem is to make them pay for it.

As a nation that values immigration, and depends on immigration, we should have immigration laws that work and make us proud. Yet today we do not. Instead, we see many employers turning to the illegal labor market. We see millions of hard-working men and women condemned to fear and insecurity in a massive, undocumented economy.

You who are so-called “illegal aliens” must know that no human being is illegal.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

All across this country, undocumented immigrants are living in fear of seeing their families torn apart because of our broken immigration system. Many of those immigrants are children who were brought here at a young age through no fault of their own.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

I’ve yet to see a customer walk out of a restaurant because his dishes were being washed by an illegal alien.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people, here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

Cracking down on illegal immigration was a key priority when I ran in 2002, 2006, and during my time as governor. Illegal immigration is a big problem, and it needs to be strongly addressed.

I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally. With regard to the employer sanctions, we must have that not only to ensure that we can identify the illegal aliens, but also, while some keep protesting about what it would do to employers, there is another employer that we shouldn't be so concerned about, and these are employers down through the years who have encouraged the illegal entry into this country because they then hire these individuals and hire them at starvation wages and with none of the benefits that we think are normal and natural for workers in our country, and the individuals can't complain because of their illegal status. We don't think that those people should be allowed to continue operating free.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

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.