Mike Coffman Quotes

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

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.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

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

We must come up with new immigration laws to … show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants.

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

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 is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

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.

I'm not anti-immigration.

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.

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.

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

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

I just think that Stephen Miller is completely tone deaf when it comes to reforming our immigration system.

The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

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

I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.

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.

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

Florida doesn't need an immigration law.