Luis Gutierrez Quotes

I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.

The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation.

Political demagogues will seek popularity by public speeches full of insult to foreign countries, and yellow journals will seek to increase their circulation by appeals to prejudice against foreigners.

Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

Massive immigration has only just begun. It is the biggest problem facing France, Europe and probably the world. We risk being submerged.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today's Republican Party.

While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

America has everything, why should they want us.

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

Mexico for the Mexicans

Unfortunately in this country we now have a demagogue ... one that is reckless with the truth.

The intelligence and prosperity of the American working man is endangered by the present immigration.

The new wave of mass immigration … reinforced the leftist campaign to destroy Christendom

I would be very distressed if we were to try to shut our doors to immigration in this country. I frankly don't envisage that happening, but I understand that there's always that tendency on the part of people who are here who, having come here four generations earlier, want to shut the door. And I don't think that's a good idea.

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

[Referring to immigrants:] They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. Do we want more of this?

Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of immigrants going back to the days of the Founders, when Ben Franklin thought we were going to be overrun by Germans. But Business likes illegal workers.