Barack Obama Quotes

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

I'm not anti-immigration.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years.

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to immigration - strong, intense opinions.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?

Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue.

In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants.

Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question about it. And it's very simple to understand why - half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

There's an immigration problem in every country that has money, in that people there have a problem with immigration.

If voters' anger is the hallmark of the 2016 campaign, nothing has generated that anger as much as the establishment's decade-long duplicity on immigration.

I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

Florida doesn't need an immigration law.

Unless the immigration issue is tackled in a constructive way, Mexico and the United States will probably revert to a historic cycle of confrontation and recrimination.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.