Tim Kaine Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

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

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

We could have free immigration if we did not have a welfare state. In principle I would like to see free immigration.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

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

At the opening of the present Congress, it was very offensive to say anything detrimental about the Japanese immigration in the presence of a Congressman or a Senator, and the President of the United States was even reported to have said that if they sent the representatives of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League to the White House he would deport the members of the committee. The change which has taken place is notable, not only in the halls of legislation in Washington, but in the industrial and commercial centers of the east.

It's very contrary to the notion of what America is to imagine that we can stop migration.

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

I forget what his name was, but Tucker Carlson said, "Well, look, do you think that anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed?" He said, "Yes. Anybody who wants to come to America should be allowed to come to America. That's what America's for."

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.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

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

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

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

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.