Raul Labrador Quotes

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together.

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

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.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

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.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

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.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.