Theresa May Quotes

The U.K. will leave the European Union, freedom of movement will end, and the British parliament will decide how many people come to live here.

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is, 'What then is on the blank piece of paper that is an immigration policy?'

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

The government rightly resisted pressure to accept Free Movement of people from E.U. countries, to allow us to regain control over our immigration policy.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

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

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

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.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

It is important that we enact immigration reform.

I argued that until FBI director James Comey gives a green light to new visas, and not until we completely reform the vetting process for new foreign visitors, that the borders should be sealed.

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 think most of us in America want our security. There're so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who's emigrating into our country.

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.

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

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

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

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

Freedom from the E.U. can only be beneficial for our country. We could finally take control of our immigration policies, introduce a fairer system, and keep numbers at a sustainable level that benefits our economy.

To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.