Gad Saad Quotes

At the basis of a country's immigration policy is the recognition that a country has the right to pursue its interests first, and whenever it wishes to be altruistic and humane, this is instantiated without ever risking the danger of its citizens and/or its cultural values.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

There is no such thing as free immigration. Every self-governing nation is going to determine what sort of people it will admit through its boundaries.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

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.

We will decide who comes to our country.

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.

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.

Part of our sovereignty as a nation is having an immigration law that we can enforce.

In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

I believe it could very well be unconstitutional to ban people. We are a country of immigrants, but we have to know who's coming in. They need to come in legally. And we need to be sure that we have been able to have them satisfy the criteria that we set for them to come into our country.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

We've been agreeing on a strict immigration policy to Norway for a long time. It's supposed to be fair, but it's supposed to be strict.

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

Open borders would be clear access to this country without going through a legal immigration process, and that's exactly what Mrs. Clinton is wanting us to do.

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.