Rush Limbaugh Quotes

New immigration plan is about legal education. It allows educated people who want to become Americans to stay and become Americans. It was nothing but common sense. It went over the heads of the media because their prejudicial bias did not permit them to even understand this was about legal immigration.

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability to learn and work using English, which makes their future success more likely.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory.

[Referring to immigrants:] They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. Do we want more of this?

I think it's important to be reminded that that's what this country is comprised of - people from other countries.

America has long been the land of immigrants.

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted and in a manner that serves the national interest! We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago.

For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

Hillary and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not. We won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you practice.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

Hillary Clinton and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not, we won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you come from.

We've even lost the definition of immigration. "Immigration" today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. That's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration, and we ought to all oppose it.

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.